The new virus called HKU5-CoV-2, discovered in bats in China, carries the risk of animal-to-human transmission.
Women might be at a 31 per cent higher risk of developing long Covid compared to men, with those aged 40-55 years likely to be at most risk, a study has found.
Juan Pablo Vaquero was pronounced dead in the Peruvian Amazonian city of Iquitos in the first wave of COVID-19 in April 2020. His sister wasn't allowed to see his body. Three days later came home after waking up in a pile of corpses in the jungle.
Three cases of Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV) have been detected in India - two in Bengaluru and one in Ahmedabad. The cases were detected in babies and one of them has been discharged from the hospital.
Merck & Co.'s Covid-19 antivirals are getting a new lease of life in post-pandemic China, as cat owners seize on them as antidotes to a life-threatening disease caused by a coronavirus that infects their feline companions.
The country's economy, the world's second-largest, has struggled to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic, facing challenges like a debt crisis in the housing sector, low consumption, and high youth unemployment.
China insisted on Tuesday that it had shared information on Covid-19 "without holding anything back", after the World Health Organization implored China to offer more data and access to understand the disease's origins.
The World Health Organization on Monday implored China to share data and access to help understand how Covid-19 began, five years on from the start of the pandemic that upended the planet.
A purported video of a news report "predicting" the fourth wave of COVID-19 in January 2025 has been recently shared by several social media users.
Dr. Aseem Malhotra, a British Indian Consultant Cardiologist, has written an open letter to the General Medical Council (GMC) of the UK, stating that the vaccines cause greater harm than benefit.
US lawmakers concluded a two-year investigation Monday into the Covid-19 outbreak that killed 1.1 million Americans -- backing the theory that the virus likely leaked from a Chinese laboratory.
A group of scientists say they have evidence suggesting COVID-19 emerged from animals and jumped to humans at a market in Wuhan, China.
DrJay Varma, the former COVID-19 czar of New York City, has been fired from his position at SIGA Technologies following the revelation of his involvement in drug-fuelled sex parties during the pandemic.
The researchers said that majority of previous studies have looked at detecting COVID-19, with a smaller number of studies focused on cardiac conditions and falls.
A recent study has revealed that SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, might be using an unexpected method to infect the brain. Researchers found that mutations in the virus' spike protein allow it to enter brain cells through a "back door," a process that might explain the neurological symptoms observed in some COVID-19 patients.
Experts measured the number of people who had died as a direct or indirect result of Covid and found the excess mortality rate was still higher than pre-pandemic levels.
A few of the 10,500 athletes set to participate have tested positive for Covid since arriving.
SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID) is responsible for recurring waves of infection as it continues to evolve and mutate into new variants which keep it a step ahead of our immunity.
This marks Akshay's third bout with COVID-19, having previously contracted it in April 2021, which led to hospitalisation, and again in May 2022
US President Joe Biden made another apparent gaffe during his speech at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's (NAACP) Fight for Freedom Fund Dinner in Detroit on Sunday.
During the Covid-19 lockdown, ISRO utilised the services of Garuda Aerospace in 2021 for sanitising its premises using drones.
The leading health official in Queensland urges the public to refrain from using the term 'long Covid' in light of recent research findings.
Ms Morera fought off Covid-19 in 2020 after surviving both World Wars, the Spanish Civil War, and the Spanish Flu pandemic.
Recent documents obtained from the US Department of Health and Human Services indicate that a Chinese virologist had isolated and mapped the structure of COVID-19 at least two weeks before Beijing officially acknowledged the virus.
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