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US to offer free COVID tests

US health officials said on Friday the government's free COVID-19 test delivery programs would reopen in late September, in time for the holiday season,...

Four Films That Mirror the COVID Crisis

While the world grappled with the unprecedented challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, cinema offered a unique lens through which to process and understand the...

US asks COVID vaccine makers to target KP.2 strain

The US health regulator has changed its strain recommendation for the 2024-25 COVID-19 vaccines, as it asked manufacturers to update the new shots to...

Fact Check: Study DOES NOT say COVID vaccines fueled excess deaths

A newly released study does not say COVID-19 vaccines may have fuelled excess deaths across the world, contrary to claims on social media. The journal...

Paxlovid fails as 15-day treatment for long COVID

A 15-day course of Pfizer's COVID-19 antiviral treatment Paxlovid did not relieve symptoms of long COVID, according to a study by Stanford University researchers. Currently,...

The FLiRT COVID variants: What are they?

The so-called FLiRT variants of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that cause COVID-19 have been the dominant forms of the virus circulating this year globally, according...

AstraZeneca’s COVID prevention drug cuts risk of disease

AstraZeneca's COVID-19 prevention therapy reduced the risk of infection in patients with weaker immunity in a late-stage trial, meeting its primary goal, the...

Causes of viruses

The globalised world is consistently experiencing breakouts of viruses of various kinds and shapes that affect the people to varying degree. Since many years...

Boris Johnson says he underestimated threat from COVID

LONDON: British former prime minister Boris Johnson gave his most explicit apology for his handling of the coronavirus crisis on Wednesday, saying his government...

WHO authorizes emergency use of Novavax’s updated COVID vaccine

Novavax's updated vaccine has been granted emergency-use authorization by the World Health Organization (WHO) for active immunization to prevent COVID-19 in individuals aged 12...

The Stolen Year

This book 'The Stolen Year: How COVID Changed Children's Lives, and Where We Go Now' by Anya Kamenetz is a narrative of the massive...

Paxlovid: Pfizer reveals price of COVID medicine

Pfizer on Wednesday said it will set the U.S. price for its COVID-19 antiviral treatment Paxlovid at nearly $1,400 per five-day course when it...

Novavax says new COVID vaccine now available in many pharmacies

Novavax said on Friday its updated COVID-19 vaccine was available at U.S. pharmacies such as CVS, Rite Aid and Costco, a week after gaining...

Scientists uncover COVID’s weakness

In a new paper published in the journal Viruses, research team from United States' University of California  Riverside described an important discovery. The protein...

US FDA authorizes Pfizer and Moderna’s updated COVID vaccines

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Monday authorized updated COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna that target a recently circulating Omicron variant...

England confirms 34 COVID cases linked to highly mutated variant

UK Health Security Agency (UKSHA) said on Friday that 34 COVID-19 cases linked to the highly mutated variant BA.2.86 had been identified in England. The...

Moderna says updated COVID vaccine effective against BA.2.86 variant

Moderna on Wednesday said clinical trial data showed its updated COVID-19 vaccine will likely be effective against the highly-mutated BA.2.86 subvariant of the coronavirus...

Eris, BA.2.86: Do I need to worry about COVID again?

The World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are tracking a new, highly mutated lineage of the virus that...

Eris: Moderna’s updated COVID vaccine effective against new variant

Moderna said on Thursday an initial study data showed its updated COVID-19 vaccine to be effective against the "Eris" and "Fornax" subvariants in humans. The...

Covid Eris: What to know about new coronavirus variant

COVID infections and hospitalizations are on the rise in the U.S., Europe and Asia. Health officials are pointing at the EG.5 "Eris" coronavirus, a...
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