Symptoms appear to be similar to other variants of COVID-19 and the public health risk remains low, WHO information shows.

But some insurers and employers may decide to still cover the shots regardless of the new recommendations, said Jen Kates, a senior vice president at the non-profit KFF, which studies health care issues. She noted that they may view the expense as worthwhile if it avoids a higher bill from someone hospitalized by the coronavirus.

The CDC will no longer recommend COVID-19 vaccines for healthy pregnant women and children. Experts criticize the change, especially as the new NB.1.8.1 variant surges.

FBI Deputy Director Bongino says the bureau is reviewing a potential COVID-19 origin cover-up, calling for answers amid fears over a new emerging variant.

The US has recently dropped the COVID vaccine recommendation for healthy children and pregnant women. Here's what the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation says.

While a new, highly infectious COVID-19 variant wends its way through California, the FDA said it would change vaccine eligibility.

Fourteen individuals were arrested for COVID-19 relief fund fraud totaling over $25 million in Los Angeles, facing various fraud and money laundering charges.

A new variant of COVID-19 is circulating in parts of the world and may be driving an increase in cases in the eastern Mediterranean, Southeast Asia and western Pacific regions.

In some cases, "symptoms can escalate to more severe respiratory distress," infectious disease expert Dr. Tyler Evans told Newsweek.

Two federal criminal complaints named 18 defendants, four of whom are believed to be in Armenia and haven’t been arrested.

The federal government is no longer recommending routine booster shots of the Covid vaccine for healthy children and pregnant women who have no underlying conditions.

In Karnataka, an elderly man who tested positive for Covid-19 died at a hospital in Belagavi district, a senior official in the health department said.