Medics have warned of a surge of new COVID-19 cases around the world despite the ongoing vaccination campaigns in many countries. India and Brazil, which reported the highest number of confirmed new infections, have been hit the hardest. India's ...

European stock markets opened sharply higher on Friday as more central banks adopted monetary and fiscal measures to deal with the economic downturn as a result of the Covid-19 outbreak. Stocks in London jumped in early trading with the FTSE 100 in...

South Korea raised its alert on the coronavirus to the highest level Sunday after reporting three more deaths and 169 new infections. The country has seen a rapid surge in the number of coronavirus cases since a cluster of infections emerged from a...