Covid news: Several Asian countries, including Singapore and Hong Kong, are experiencing a rise in COVID-19 cases driven by the JN.1 varian...

Kerala is dealing with the reemergence of the Nipah virus, with two deaths and three people under quarantine. This is the fourth occurrence...

Chinese authorities submitted 25 new genetic samples from Beijing, Inner Mongolia and Guangzhou taken in the past month to GISAID, a databa...

"It's a sub-variant of Omicron that gets around pre-existing immunity rather well," said Virologist Shahid Jameel of the University of Oxfo...

While Delta is still the most common variant in all continents except Africa, Omicron is spreading very quickly.

New Delhi's chief minister Arvind Kejriwal claimed this week on social media that a strain of the virus had appeared in Singapore that coul...

This new strain of virus could invade India in the form of a third wave, Arvind Kejriwal said in a tweet.

"Kejriwal ji, all international flights have been stopped since March 2020. We have no air bubble with Singapore either," Puri said on Twit...

The decision will also impact people who have prior approval to enter Singapore, said Education Minister Lawrence Wong, co-chair of the mul...

The announcement by the Ministry of Health came as the entry approvals for non-Singapore citizens and non-permanent residents are being red...

"At some point of time the pandemic will pass, but it may take four to five years before we finally see the end of the pandemic and the sta...

"That is a point of concern. We are carrying out tests in India regularly for those variants," Bhargava said.

He also said the company has approached regulatory authorities seeking approval for an emergency license to use the vaccine, developed in c...

An increasingly common mutation of the novel coronavirus found in Europe, North America and parts of Asia may be more infectious but appear...

The novel coronavirus originated in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province. The coronavirus is a large family of ...

As per the study, one of the strains of the virus can morph itself which helps it evade the immune system of the human host.

The worrying development, according to WHO, has seen 12 countries, including China and Singapore, reporting a mutation in the virus. India ...