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Spain has become the first European Union nation to surpass a million coronavirus infections, official data showed Wednesday, as the government mulls fresh restrictions on public life to curb the spread of the disease. The country recorded 16,973 confirmed cases of COVID-19 over the past 24 hours, the health ministry announced Wednesday, taking the total

Authorities in China appeared to be winning their battle against an outbreak of coronavirus in Beijing on Saturday, but in parts of the Americas the pandemic raged unabated. Brazil surpassed 1 million confirmed infections, second only to the United States. Europe, in contrast, continued to emerge warily from lockdown, with hard-hit Britain considering easing social

Kaitlyn Dobrow, 25, from southern California, was a fit, active 18-year-old when she caught bacterial meningitis. The terrifying illness caused her to lose more than half of her skin and required all four limbs to be amputated. On the night before she was admitted to hospital, Kaitlyn had a bad headache and spent the night with intense

British grandfather, 63, becomes the first person in the world to benefit from a pioneering triple-combo heart-failure treatment which uses three wireless implants to regulate organ Robert Brind, 63, from Whitstable, Kent, had the implants fitted over six months One of the wires attached to heart prompts the organ to beat at a normal rate 

Ghana on Tuesday rolled out the world’s only proven malaria vaccine for infants as part of a landmark campaign against the deadly mosquito-borne disease, one week after Malawi became the first country to do so. Malaria kills hundreds of thousands of people each year, mainly in Africa, and it is hoped a vaccine will bring