Health

People under the age of 20 are about half as likely to be infected with Covid-19 as adults, and they are also less likely to transmit the disease to others, according to a new modelling study.

Two masks are better than one. The new guidance for slowing the spread of COVID-19 is to double mask. First, Dr. Anthony Fauci endorsed it because "it just makes common sense," the chief medical adviser to the president told NBC News' Today. Now, the CDC recommends the same.

The world is familiar with "Medical Tourism" but COVID-19 has introduced a new genre "Vaccine Tourism" which the Maldives is to launch soon to attract tourists to its sun-kissed isles.

The coming UNHRC session and the visit of the Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan may have influenced the reversal of the highly divisive policy of not allowing the burial of COVID victims

Air pollution caused by the burning of fossil fuels such as coal and oil was responsible for 8.7m deaths globally in 2018, a staggering one in five of all people who died that year, new research has found.

When it comes to protecting yourself against new coronavirus variants, two masks may be better than one.

A mixture of overwhelming preoccupation with COVID, peoples' religious apprehensions and anti-US feelings is hampering polio control in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Over one-half of China’s general population reported moderate-to-severe psychological impacts and one-third reported increased levels of anxiety

People’s willingness to get vaccinated against COVID-19 is rising around the world and more than half of those questioned said they would take the shot if it were offered next week, an updated survey of global vaccine confidence found on Thursday.

Big pharma corporates are unethically exploiting a “new but no-so-deadly” influenza, says Duni Damar, in the website of the Center for Research in Globalization, Ottawa.