Virus

On Thursday, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that they were monitoring a newly discovered, severely mutated lineage of the virus that causes Covid-19. According to a post on messaging platform X by...

As China’s “zero-Covid” approach is tested by an Omicron wave, the country’s industrial city of nine million people was shut down overnight and more than 4,000 viral cases were detected on Tuesday. Late Monday, the city...

The World Health Organization’s (WHO) emergency director warned Wednesday that vaccines would not arrive in time to defeat the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, reports BSS. The WHO’s Michael Ryan said vaccines should not be...

Global coronavirus (COVID-19) infections soared past 25 million on Sunday, as nations around the world further tightened limitations to try to stop the rampaging pandemic. A million extra cases have been recognized globally roughly every four...

World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Friday that coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic effects would be felt for decades as its crisis committee assessed the condition six months after sounding its top alarm over the outbreak. The COVID-19...

Squabbling Europian Union leaders battled on into the immediate hours of Monday to try and break the deadlock as their summit on a huge coronavirus (COVID-19) rescue package stretched into the fourth day. Tempers flared in...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres praised South Korea Thursday for combatting the novel coronavirus while simultaneously fighting global climate change. The country was providing a “remarkable example” of how “the two things are often put together,” Guterres...

More than one billion people have been asked to stay home in more than 50 countries and territories around the world as governments battle the coronavirus pandemic sweeping the globe, according to an AFP tally Monday....

Two Fiji rugby players have been arrested for ignoring the Pacific nation’s coronavirus self-isolation rules, with local authorities saying their “irresponsible behaviour” would be reported to rugby’s world governing body. The two men have not been...

Australia on Sunday announced anyone arriving into the country will face mandatory 14-day self-isolation, in a bid to slow the spread of the coronavirus. “We are going to have to get used to some changes in...