The Omicron COVID-19 variant continues to mutate, with its subvariants accounting for the majority of new infections. This week, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that new COVID-19 cases in the US were 87.1% BA.5, 6.6% BA.4, and 4.8% BA...
Experts say Australia could still see new waves and strains of COVID-19. (Fusion Medical Animation on Unsplash) Infectious disease experts have warned that, while Australia might have passed the peak of its winter COVID-19 wave, there could still be future surges and...
COVID screening in India, where cases caused by the BA.2.75 variant are rising.Credit: Mohd Arhaan Archer/AFP/Gett As countries await the end of COVID-19 surges caused by the variant BA.5, researchers are on the lookout for what will come next. An Omicron subvariant...
Indian hospitals say their patients are dying because of a shortage of oxygen as Covid case numbers and deaths set new records for a third day running. India has recorded nearly a million infections in three days, with 346,786 new cases overnight into Saturday. At the...
Rajeshwari Devi, 58, died on Sunday after waiting for two days to get uninterrupted oxygen, an ambulance and a bed in a Covid-19 hospital. She kept waiting and gasping but it was too late by the time help arrived. She was taken to a hospital emergency room on 16 April...
Singapore’s latest community case of Covid-19 infection widened a new cluster in the city state to four patients, according to the health ministry. The lone reported community case that added to this cluster is a 44 year-old male Papua New Guinea citizen, with a...
Japan on Wednesday reported more than 4,000 new cases of coronavirus as the country grapples with a fourth wave of the pandemic. The figure surpassed 4,000 for the first time since Jan. 28, when some areas including Tokyo were under a state of emergency. Osaka...
More than 12 months into Brazil’s COVID-19 emergency, there is still no effective, centralised and coordinated public health response to the outbreak. The lack of political will to adequately respond to the pandemic is killing Brazilians in their thousands. Médecins...
Akhilesh Mishra started getting a fever and a cough last Thursday but he initially thought it was just the flu. Akhilesh began to worry the next day, when his father Yogendra developed similar symptoms. The two men decided to get Covid RT-PCR tests done and tried to...
Denmark has ceased giving the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid vaccine amid concerns about rare cases of blood clots, the first European country to do so fully. The move is expected to delay the country's vaccination programme by several weeks. Drug watchdog the European...
Many of us are hoping vaccines against coronavirus will be our route out of lockdown, enabling us to reclaim our old lives. But scientists say jabs alone will not currently be enough and other measures are still needed. Scroll down to find out why. Cleaning hands and...
Osaka Prefecture confirmed a daily record of 918 coronavirus infections Saturday, the prefectural government said, as Japanese authorities have been facing an uphill battle to control the spread of the virus ahead of this summer's Tokyo Olympics. In Tokyo, meanwhile,...
BANGKOK: Thailand on Sunday (Apr 11) reported 967 new COVID-19 cases, its biggest daily jump, but no new deaths as the country deals with a third wave of infections and a highly contagious variant. Of the infections, 964 were domestic transmissions, including 236 in...