A frightening fire broke out in a 19-storey building in the Bronx, New York: so far 19 people are dead, including 9 children

Bangkok's governor orders the capital's 50 districts to carry out ambulance medical transport drills for patients with Omicron covid variant and to take measures to suppress non-essential leisure activities

Swabs chaos: the Italian Society of Infectious and Tropical Diseases intervenes in the debate about swabs that has developed in recent days

In Germany, the rescuers of an ambulance of the BRK (Bavarian Red Cross) were attacked on Sunday with machetes while they were helping a patient

Firefighters: London has had over a third of its fire engines unavailable as Omicron hits staffing numbers, new London Fire Brigade data shows

Fourth dose of vaccine for the immunocompromised: this was announced at a press conference by the highest officials of the Israeli Health Ministry

Toxic shock syndrome is a clinical condition characterised by the rapid onset of fever, skin rash, low blood pressure and muscle pain

Omicron, Pfizer Switzerland chief Bruckner: 'It is not yet clear whether an update against the new variant is needed. We could deliver it in the spring."

Myanmar is in mourning and grief: at least one person has died and between 70 and 100 people are missing after a landslide in a jade mine in Kachin State, the northernmost part of Myanmar. This was announced by the rescue team that is…

Christmas is here, and 2021 is drawing to a close. A complicated year, of hopes and commitments: a year marked, once again, by the Covid emergency