LONDON The omicron Covid variant is likely to spread further and poses a "very high" global risk, according to the World Health Organization, which warned Monday that surges of Covid infections cause...

All contacts of new variant cases will be told to self-isolate, regardless of whether or not they are fully vaccinated. In August, the Government scrapped the requirement to self-isolate after contac...

Israel will block all non-Israelis from entering the country for 14 days beginning at midnight Sunday to try to mitigate the spread of the new Omicron variant of COVID-19. The country has detected on...

Scientists are cautiously optimistic that most standard rapid tests will still work against the new variant (Picture: Getty) The discovery of a new Covid strain suspected of being more transmissible...

Dutch military police say they have arrested a married couple who left a hotel where they were in quarantine after testing positive for Covid-19 and were attempting to flee the country. The couple w...