The Covid-19 pandemic highlighted how quickly zoonotic diseases can spread globally. As a result, scientists worldwide have increased efforts to study viruses circulating in wildlife and improve early detection systems.

A viral 2022 tweet resurfaced during the MV Hondius hantavirus outbreak, fuelling panic online. Experts explain why misinformation spreads during health scares and how people can verify facts before sharing alarming posts.

After a hiatus of over four years, direct commercial air services between Kolkata and mainland China's Guangzhou city resumed on Sunday with the first flight taking off from the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport at 10 pm.

Italian authorities have arrested a Chinese citizen, accused by the United States of being part of a state-sponsored hacking group that stole Covid-19 vaccine secrets from the US on behalf of Chinese intelligence at the height of the pandemic.

A day after the Indian Council of Medical Research debunked claims of the Corona vaccine being responsible for the rising death cases among the youth, a panel of expert doctors from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences addressed the issue.

Five years after the World Health Organization first described the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak as a pandemic, its effects are still being felt on the global economy.

A newly discovered bat coronavirus, HKU5-CoV-2, similar to the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic, has been identified in China.

A new bat coronavirus that carries the risk of animal-to-human transmission, similar to the one that caused the COVID-19 pandemic, has been discovered in China.

Beijing has said claims that a laboratory leak likely caused the pandemic have no credibility.

The fifth anniversary of the first known death from Covid-19 passed seemingly unnoticed in China Saturday, with no official remembrances in a country where the pandemic is a taboo subject.

UK families of some 240,000 people who died from COVID-19 have hung festive lights on a London wall, a symbol of love, anger and pain ahead of another Christmas overshadowed by loss.

Vietnam's unique Covid-19 Park, part of the Tuyen Lam Lake National Tourist Complex, recently went viral after British social media user Ella Ribak shared her visit.

Before the COVID pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) had made a list of priority infectious diseases. These were felt to pose a threat to international public health.

Scientists at the institute have developed a new nanovaccine that shows promise in providing universal protection against all major Covid-19 variants.

Britain let down its citizens by leaving the nation ill-prepared for the COVID-19 pandemic because of significantly flawed planning and failures by ministers and scientific experts, a public inquiry concluded in a scathing report on Thursday.

While the mortality rate was 0.6 per cent for Covid-19, Mr Redfield said the mortality for the bird flu would probably be ''somewhere between 25 and 50 per cent.''

US President Joe Biden joked on Friday that he wished former President Donald Trump had injected himself with a little bleach, resurrecting one of Trump's more head-scratching moments from the early days of the coronavirus pandemic.

Researchers have made a new coronavirus vaccine that could also protect against viruses we haven't found yet, to stop future pandemics.

Global life expectancy dropped by 1.6 years between 2019 and 2021, a sharp reversal from past improvements, according to research published in The Lancet journal.

China, still reeling from the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, now faces a new threat: a mysterious pneumonia outbreak sweeping through its educational institutions.

A new documentary film reveals how a monthly Rs 1,580 ($19) grant from the South African government instituted during the Covid pandemic for unemployed people has changed the lives of the beneficiaries.

In the study, Shi Zhengli and colleagues from the Wuhan Institute of Virology evaluated the human spillover risk of 40 coronavirus species.

A Dutch art detective has recovered a precious Vincent van Gogh painting that was stolen from a museum in a daring midnight heist during the coronavirus lockdown three-and-a-half years ago, police said Tuesday.

Director-General of WHO Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus on Friday said though COVID-19 is no longer a health emergency for the world, it is still a 'global health threat' and a new variant of coronavirus is already under the scanner.