COVID-19

President Biden has tested positive for COVID-19, the White House announced on Thursday. The US leader is said to be experiencing “mild symptoms” and is taking Paxloid, an antiviral medicine used to treat symptoms of coronavirus. Biden to work in isolation...

Cases of COVID-19 have skyrocketed in Greece, as the country has confirmed 25,566 new infections and nineteen deaths associated with the virus in the last 24 hours, the National Public Health Organization (EODY) announced on Tuesday. The vast majority of...

Athens soared nineteen places in The Economist Intelligence Unit’s latest ranking of the world’s most livable cities, among the biggest upward movers in the annual report. Its climb to number 73 on the list of 172 cities comes a year...

The US will drop its COVID-19 testing requirement for international travelers entering the country on midnight Sunday. International travelers entering the US will no longer be required to present proof of a negative COVID test before arriving in the country....

As of June 1st, the use of masks is no longer required in much of Greece, but there are still some places where people must wear a face covering in the country. For example, masks are required both for taxi...

People in Greece will no longer be required to wear masks indoors starting June first, according to Thanos Plevris, the Greek minister of health. However, masks will still be required in certain places, such as in hospitals, elder care homes,...

Face masks will no longer be required in airports and on planes in Europe, the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) said on Wednesday. The easing of the measure will be...

Bill Gates warned on Sunday that the COVID-19 pandemic is far from over, saying there could be a variant that is "even more transmissive and even more fatal." "We haven't even seen the worst of it," he said in an...

China confirmed on Tuesday the first known human case of the H3N8 strain of bird flu to a four-year-old boy living in central Henan province. China's National Health Commission (NHC) said the boy tested positive for the strain after being...

Though sometimes forgotten, the Orthodox and Catholic Churches have long commemorated a saint who is thought to protect against disease and pandemics, such as today’s coronavirus. Saint Corona (who is also known as St. Kron or St. Kronpeth) is the...