Dr_ Rochelle Walensky says new mask-wearing guidance, coupled with higher rates of vaccination against COVID-19, could halt the current escalation of infections in “a couple of weeks.”

Tokyo has reported 3,177 new coronavirus cases, setting an all-time high.

Australia’s largest city Sydney will remain in lockdown for another month

Japan’s vaccination minister says the speed of the country’s inoculation campaign is less urgent than getting shots to young people, who are blamed for spreading the virus

Tanzania’s president has kicked off her nation’s COVID-19 vaccination campaign by publicly receiving a dose and urging others to do the same

Senior cabinet ministers are due to discuss the move for arrivals to England in a meeting on Wednesday.

Japan's vaccination minister tells AP that speed of inoculations less important than getting shots to the young

Senior cabinet ministers are due to discuss the move for arrivals to England in a meeting on Wednesday.

Tokyo reports 3,177 new coronavirus cases, all-time high since the pandemic began last year

Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike has urged younger people to cooperate with measures to bring down the high number of infections and get vaccinated, saying their activities are key to slowing the surge during the Olympics

South Korea is reporting a new daily high for coronavirus cases a day after authorities enforced stringent restrictions in areas outside the Seoul capital region seeking to slow a nationwide spread of infections

Federal prosecutors in Maryland say a man has been arrested and charged with sending emails that threatened to harm and kill Dr. Anthony Fauci, National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis Collins, and their families

The White House is strongly considering requiring federal employees to show proof they’ve been vaccinated against the coronavirus, or otherwise submit to regular testing and wear a mask at all times regardless of the rate of transmission in their area

Drivers seeking to leave eastern China’s Jiangsu province will have to show a negative coronavirus test taken in the last 48 hours or be turned back, as infections in the province continue to rise

Nevada officials are re-imposing a mask mandate for indoor public spaces in the state's cities in an effort to stem the spread of the coronavirus amid a rise in  cases and hospitalizations not seen since before the arrival of vaccines

The Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan has fully vaccinated 90% of its eligible adult population in one week, exceeding the rates in countries with far greater resources

Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson says a special session to revisit the state’s ban on mask mandates in schools is an option as the number of COVID-19 hospitalizations in the state has surpassed 1,000

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About one in three has problems such as high blood pressure and mental ill health, a study suggests.

And just like that, masks are back at the White House