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Omicron sub-variants driving up coronavirus cases in UK and being monitored closely

Changes to a global agreement allowing compulsory licensing of COVID-19 vaccines do nothing to improve access in developing economies. Cost is still a barrier.

Omicron sub-variants driving up infections across world, WHO director-general warns

Authorities say the case is in a returned traveller who is now isolating, and is not linked to the first

From Missouri ex rel. Schmitt v. People's Republic of China, decided Friday by Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh, Jr. (E.D. Mo.) (fun fact: he's the late Rush Limbaugh's cousin): Amidst the wreckage of the COVID-19 pandemic, plaintiffs across the United States have filed civil suits seeking damages against the People's Republic…

WASHINGTON — U.S. lawmakers are working in an unusually bipartisan manner to boost federal funding across the government’s spate of defense, technology and international development programs — all in the name of pushing back against long-term strategic security threats emanating from China.

Almost all European countries have reported surge in infections, driven mainly by Omicron variant BA.5

House Republicans oppose Democrats' push for more funding support for the U.N., despite China's growing influence within the organization.

PUNE: All countries should keep a close eye on Omicron's BA.2.75 subvariant as there still aren't enough samples globally to analyse its severity, the WHO's chief scientist Dr Soumya Swaminathan told TOI on Saturday.