"They will not be commissioned into the United States Air Force as long as they remain unvaccinated," Spokesman Dean Miller told the AP.

"We've offered vaccines, not only to North Korea but to China as well, and we're prepared to do that immediately," Biden said.

Officials said North Korea may be planning a long-range missile test to occur while President Joe Biden visits South Korea this weekend.

Most kids haven't even had their first COVID-19 shot yet. Public health experts are concerned they're most at risk as new variants emerge.

The FDA's third shot recommendation for kids 5-11 comes after budding research suggested two COVID shots may not be enough against Omicron.

"I don't know why they think I'm interested in knowing people's locations — that one I still have to laugh at," Gates said.

The White House is considering rationing vaccines, according to Politico. Congress has failed to set aside more funding to address the pandemic.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said the massive outbreak showed a "grave sign of lapses in our anti-epidemic system," state media reported.

Delhi has been reporting around 1,000-1,700 new COVID-10 cases on a daily basis. Daily cases in the national capital might be going unreported, says a new survey. 6 out of 10 people in Delhi who had almost all the COVID-19 symptoms did not take a COVID-19 test.

States across the US have lifted COVID-19 restrictions, citing vaccination rates that have kept hospitalizations low.

North Korea closed all its land borders in 2020 after cases of COVID-19 began to spread fast across Asia. It only reopened them in January this year.

Omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 have been detected in more than a dozen countries driving Covid outbreaks across the world...

The EU's Aviation Safety Agency said passengers will not have to wear masks on flights starting on Monday as COVID-19 cases slow in Europe.

They have to choose between staying at home and getting no income, or working and not returning home, The Wall Street Journal reported.

The new estimate is around 2.7 times higher than the 5.4 million deaths reported by governments to the WHO during the same time period.

A former pub landlord faces allegations of using taxpayer-funded Covid “bounceback” loans to fund the terror group. The case is going to trial.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Trump expected "reciprocity" when he agreed to dock a ship with passengers infected with COVID-19.

Since the rollout of COVID-19 vaccinations, various Fox News hosts like Tucker Carlson have sowed fear about its efficacy.

Fauci said the US is "out of the pandemic phase," but later clarified that "the pandemic is not over, don't anyone think that."

Colleagues told Dr. Deborah Birx to "focus on a distant point at the back of the room and think of other things" to avoid embarrassing Trump.

"You've got to do this. You need to finish. You can never quit," Bush told Birx, according to her new book.

Moderna said Thursday it had applied to the FDA for emergency-use authorization of its COVID-19 vaccine for kids 6 months to 6 years old.

"We wish Mr Musk luck with his endeavours to improve the quality of information that we all receive," a WHO official said.

Harris tested positive for the virus after a staffer who was in "close contact" with the vice president disclosed a positive test on April 6.

Cities and regions across China were forced into lockdown following a recent surge in COVID-19 cases.