Scientists are beginning a new study to tell if the blood plasma of COVID-19 survivors might help prevent infection in the first place

Prosecutors have questioned Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte about the lack of a coronavirus lockdown on two towns in northern Italy’s Lombardy region that became one of the hardest-hit areas of the country’s outbreak

GENEVA — The World Health Organization’s emergencies chief is expressing concern about Brazil’s ability to manage surging coronavirus cases, but said the health system so far is coping

Authorities in Armenia have extended the state of emergency for another month until July 13, saying the coronavirus continues to remain a threat

Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte is being questioned by prosecutors investigating the lack of a lockdown of two towns in Lombardy’s Bergamo province at the start of Italy’s coronavirus outbreak

India’s coronavirus caseload has become the fourth-highest in the world, overtaking Britain, by adding 10,956 new cases in yet another biggest single-day spike

A survey finds that global poverty is set to surge by some 400 million people to over 1 billion people as a result of the coronavirus pandemic

The World Health Organization scrambled on Tuesday to clarify its seemingly contradictory comments in recent days: recommending people wear masks to prevent the spread of the coronavirus from people with no symptoms and then describing such transmission as “very rare.”

A top World Health Organization expert has tried to clear up “misunderstandings” about comments she made that were widely understood to suggest that people without COVID-19 symptoms rarely transmit the coronavirus