Even though it's facing much smaller outbreak compared with global virus hotspots, China has not relaxed its 'zero COVID' strategy, imposing stay-at-home orders in many areas

Fully vaccinated individuals exposed to all COVID carriers, including Omicron, will be allowed out of isolation following a negative PCR test

With traditional public health campaigns unheeded, an unconventional group joins effort against fear, mistrust, complacency, inconvenience and the presence of bigger worries

South African data, not yet peer-reviewed, comes from 13 cases; researchers can't definitively say neutralization of Omicron not due to vaccination or previous infection

Reports say move comes with Omicron already spreading in Israel; officials also planning to shorten quarantine regulations amid fears hundreds of thousands will be confined

'I did this with a full, full heart,' says Prof. Jacob Lavee of Sheba hospital, which is conducting a landmark study to establish necessity of a fourth dose to combat the virus

UN commission warns that continuation of pandemic could 'bring the total number of extremely poor Africans to 514 million people'

Health officials report highest single-day tally in months, as Bennett reportedly warns lockdown 'not off the table'; quarantine rules to be rolled back for vaccinated

1% of the population, including the PM, already in isolation, and that number will grow ‘very dramatically,’ says panel head Prof. Nadav Katz, predicting disruption in schools

Bennett warns no one will completely escape impact of coronavirus tide, moves to ease isolation rules for vaccinated to prevent de facto lockdown-by-quarantine