The number of COVID-19 deaths plummeted by 40 percent in 2025 from the previous year, but the infectious disease still killed around 21,000 senior citizens.

The novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 has spread globally, killing hundreds of thousands of people and infecting millions more. The pandemic has upended life around the world, delivering a ...

Although new cases of COVID-19 in western Europe and parts of Asia are on the decline, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday that cases worldwide are still surging. WHO Director-General ...

Here’s what we’ve learned – and how our understanding has evolved – since the earliest cases of the novel coronavirus were first reported.