The US is experiencing a summer surge in COVID-19 cases, with infections rising in 40 states, particularly in the South and West. New varia...

Health authorities have confirmed two Zika virus cases in Singapore’s Woodlands neighborhood. The National Environment Agency (NEA) and Com...

CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory (NCL) in Pune detected SARS-CoV-2 genetic material in all ten sewage treatment plants (STPs), starting wi...

Covid JN.1 Updates: A recent study conducted by Tata Institute for Genetics and Society (TIGS) in Bengaluru has found that the JN.1 variant...

Countries should consider recommending passengers wear masks on long haul flights to counter the latest Omicron subvariant of COVID-19 give...

Given China's lack of data transparency, a better solution would be testing wastewater from airlines, which would offer a clearer picture o...

The meeting was held in view of the recent upsurge in cases in some countries like China, Japan, Brazil and the United States in the presen...

Meanwhile, the Maharashtra government warned of a COVID-19 spike citing evasive XBB, winter, and festive season. The state reported 17.7 pe...

It also revealed that the number of infected people has been much higher than reported cases. The findings of the study conducted on wastew...

Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan issued the advisory through a letter to states and UTs, referring to the 'Operational Guidelines for ...

The Omicron sub-variants drove a surge in South Africa in May though a preprint of a new study shows that over 87% of the population was pr...

While India is yet to report a case of the XE variant - there were reports of a case in Mumbai but the government has denied it - experts s...

As reported by ET earlier, the department of biotechnology has drawn up a detailed sewage surveillance plan, which will be rolled out throu...

The sensor was tested with wastewater collected from a sewage treatment plant in Mumbai.

Researchers from the University of Strathclyde and the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay have developed a technology that can be ...

Wastewater surveillance -- which Dutch scientists showed in March can identify evidence of the pathogen earlier than testing patients -- is...

The so-called SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is often excreted in an infected person’s stool.