A far-right conspiracy theorist who compared COVID-19 to food poisoning and urged her supporters not to get vaccinated says she feels like she got "hit by a bus" after contracting the virus. [Read More]

COVID racial disparities also affect kids, report says; Moderna vaccine protection staying especially strong [Read More]

More than 90% of Fox Corporation staff inoculated, according to memo announcing daily testing for unvaccinated employees [Read More]

The right-wing channel Fox News, whose top personalities have for months assailed the concept of vaccine passports and argued that asking about vaccine status amounts to a major intrusion of privacy, told employees this week that they must disclose their vaccination status to the company. [Read More]

Pope Francis issued an appeal on Wednesday urging people to get inoculated against COVID-19, saying the vaccines could bring an end to the pandemic, but needed to be taken by everyone. [Read More]

A mysterious marketing agency secretly offered to pay social media stars to spread disinformation about Covid-19 vaccines. Their plan failed when the influencers went public about the attempt to recruit them. [Read More]

The World Health Organization on Friday urged fully vaccinated people to continue to wear masks, social distance and practice other Covid-19 pandemic safety measures as the highly contagious delta variant spreads rapidly across the globe. [Read More]

India has classified a new variant of the coronavirus first identified in Europe as a "variant of concern", but it's too early to really tell. [Read More]

With less than two months until the Tokyo Olympics begin, a group of US public health experts are among the latest to warn that pushing forward with the rescheduled 2020 Games puts athletes -- and the public -- at risk amid the pandemic. [Read More]

With 100M inoculations in just 9 days, a fresh batch of Covid cases finally helped China combat vaccine hesitancy [Read More]

It’s important to recognise the vital role they’ve played in development of vaccines and treatments [Read More]

Vaccine developed by scientists at Jenner Institute, Oxford, shows up to 77% efficacy in trial over 12 months [Read More]

Under real world conditions, the Pfizer and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines provide highly effective protection, according to a new report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. [Read More]

Ghana has become the first country to receive coronavirus vaccines through the Covax vaccine-sharing initiative. [Read More]

The coronavirus variant first found in Kent could become the world's dominant strain, the head of the UK's genetic surveillance programme has predicted. [Read More]

Theories including virus jumping from animal to human or via frozen food being explored by team in China [Read More]

Small-scale trial of vaccine’s efficacy shows it offers very little protection against mild to moderate infection [Read More]

UK scientists have launched the world's first study examining whether different coronavirus vaccines can safely be used for two-dose regimens, an approach they say could give extra flexibility and even boost protection against Covid-19 if approved. [Read More]

Results that show the Oxford-AstraZenenca vaccine may reduce the spread of coronavirus have been hailed as "absolutely superb" by the health secretary. [Read More]

The Moderna Covid-19 vaccine created antibodies that neutralized coronavirus variants first found in the United Kingdom and South Africa, the company said in a news release on Monday. [Read More]

A Covid-19 vaccine developed in China has shown success in mid-stage trials, researchers say.There are several vaccines being developed in China, some of which are already being administered [Read More]

Paris will shut all bars completely from Tuesday as the French government raises the city's coronavirus alert to maximum following a sustained period of high infection rates. [Read More]

A team of scientists in India has developed an inexpensive paper-based test for coronavirus that could give fast results similar to a pregnancy test. The BBC's Soutik Biswas and Krutika Pathi unpack how it works. [Read More]

Becton Dickinson and Co.’s COVID-19 test that returns results in 15 minutes has been cleared for use in countries that accept Europe’s CE marking, the diagnostics maker said Wednesday. [Read More]

Results from an early safety study of Moderna Inc’s coronavirus vaccine candidate in older adults showed that it produced virus-neutralizing antibodies at levels similar to those seen in younger adults, with side effects roughly on par with high-dose flu shots, researchers said on Tuesday. [Read More]

A new lawsuit alleges the doctor performed unwanted hysterectomies on women being detained by ICE. [Read More]

Eight people in Gresik regency, East Java, were ordered by local authorities to dig graves for those who have died of Covid-19 as punishment for not wearing face masks in public. [Read More]

Being obese doubles the risk of hospital treatment from Covid-19 and increases the risk of dying by nearly 50%, a global analysis suggests. [Read More]

Achievement comes following Nigeria vaccination drive, with last cases of wild virus recorded four years ago [Read More]

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given emergency authorisation to use plasma to treat Covid patients. [Read More]

Australia has secured a deal with the drugmaker AstraZeneca to supply a potential Covid-19 vaccine to its entire population free of charge, the government announced Tuesday, becoming the latest country to lock in supplies of the drug should trials succeed. [Read More]

A recent batch of studies, many early stage and not yet peer reviewed, show that humans have a "robust" immune response to Covid-19 that may protect them from further infection, even if they had mild symptoms. [Read More]

Team based in China develop test that identifies cancers up to four years before signs appear. [Read More]

More than one million people have given up smoking since the Covid-19 pandemic hit, a survey for charity Action on Smoking and Health (Ash) suggests. [Read More]

Coronavirus test kits used in Tanzania were dismissed as faulty by President John Magufuli on Sunday, because he said they had returned positive results on samples taken from a goat and a pawpaw. [Read More]

Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Denver, Colorado, on Sunday to protest against the government's 'Stay at Home' orders to counter coronavirus.Two lone healthcare workers, however, stood their ground in front of a long line of angry Coloradans, refusing to bow down to the protesters. [Read More]

The Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro was lit up for Easter on Sunday night, paying tribute to health workers in Brazil and across the world tackling the coronavirus crisis. Images of health workers asking people to remain at home and flags from different countries with the word 'Hope' were also projected during the event [Read More]

Long maligned as job-stealers and aspiring overlords, robots are being increasingly relied on as fast, efficient, contagion-proof champions in the war against the deadly coronavirus. [Read More]

Spanish flu 1918, family portrait. [Read More]

A pastor whose church service has been blamed for sparking a huge wave of Covid-19 infections in France apologised today as countries across Europe continued to struggle to slow the rising death toll from the disease. [Read More]

A new blood test that can detect more than 50 types of cancer has been revealed by researchers in the latest study to offer hope for early detection. [Read More]

Thanks to lawmakers, coronavirus tests are now free for all Americans. But if you do test positive for COVID-19 and require treatment, the hospital bills could easily cost Americans tens of thousands of dollars, even if you have insurance. [Read More]

Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Tuesday announced his company has extra FDA-approved ventilators for hospitals around the world in dire need of more medical equipment to combat the coronavirus. [Read More]