s of July 29th, approximately 789,695 people in the UK are estimated to have symptomatic COVID. The South West of England currently has the...

Kishida, just returned from week-long vacation, was due to restart work on Monday. He developed a cough and fever on Saturday, and took a P...

"We have shown the lining of children's noses has a more pro-inflammatory response to the ancestral SARS-CoV-2 than adult noses," said Shor...

Milder manifestations mean milder symptoms, reducing the urgency to test. So, often, Covid infections are going undetected. Testing regular...

Emerging research suggests that could put them at higher risk for health problems.

In the U.S. so far, a fourth dose is recommended only for people with severely weakened immune systems, who need three doses to begin with ...

Compared with earlier variants, Omicron resulted in notably lower hospitalisation and death rates, leading some to conclude that the varian...

While the study showed that the new variant, dominant in the UK and now sweeping parts of India, is infecting the cells found in the lungs ...

The reduced severity of Omicron is good news for now, but it is the result of an "evolutionary mistake" and does not indicate that the viru...

A top epidemiology and communicable diseases expert on Monday said people should get themselves vaccinated at the earliest and not sit back...

Noted virologist Shahid Jameel said the notion that Omicron is a natural vaccine is a dangerous idea spread by irresponsible people. "It br...

Previous research had shown that some of these mutations enabled coronaviruses to grab onto cells more tightly. Others allowed the virus to...

While the new research is heartening, experts warn that the surge coming to many countries still may flood hospitals with omicron cases, si...

Reddy says Omicron may be a step in the progression towards the milder virus.

A variant may be more or less dangerous depending on the mutations in its genetic code.

"Initial positive neutralisation studies of B.1.617, with both post-Covaxin or Covishield sera, are correlatable with milder disease during...

The group of scientists concluded "that there was some evidence that children had milder symptoms than adults but that evidence on suscepti...