Boston University's scientists produced a new COVID strain that is highly potent and has an 80 per cent probability of killing an infected ...

It will include a mix of newly-approved jabs adapted for the now dominant Omicron strain, and the original vaccines developed to fight the ...

"Now would an Omicron-based vaccine also protect against the infection? That is the big question, and the virus that we are seeing now is a...

While no human cholera case was found among people who came in contact with the softshell turtles, the specific store selling them was orde...

"Sanofi-GSK's vaccine is the first candidate to demonstrate efficacy in a placebo-controlled trial in an environment of high Omicron varian...

The findings bring home the challenge of dealing with Covid’s aftermath as millions of people -- some of them children and teens -- grapple...

Evolution is a result of random mutations (or errors) in the viral genome when it replicates. A few of these random mutations will be good ...

As per the study, the variant is less sensitive to neutralising antibodies from recovered individuals, with higher replication efficiency a...

In a statement, the association said that its guidance is in keeping with best practices issued in 2015 by the World Health Organisation (W...

"The international team working to understand the origins of the Covid-19 virus is completing its four weeks' stay in Wuhan, China and toge...

Beijing reported 22 newly confirmed domestically-transmitted COVID-19 cases and two asymptomatic cases on Friday, the municipal health comm...

Top scientists in the country have estimated that the ancestor of the novel coronavirus strain from Wuhan was in circulation by Dec 11, 201...

Scientists think COVID-19 -- which first emerged in Wuhan and has killed some 340,000 people worldwide -- originated in bats and could have...

The dominance of the more virulent L-type coronavirus strain as compared to the S-type one could be behind the high mortality rate in the s...

The deadly outbreak has claimed lives of over 169,000 people and infected nearly 2,500,000 globally. The WHO has declared it a pandemic.

The Director of a maximum-security laboratory in China's coronavirus ground-zero city of Wuhan has rejected claims that it could be the sou...

The country's National Health Commission (NHC) announced the revised national figures of coronavirus, taking note of Wuhan's new data. As p...