coronavirus

Evidence new COVID variant causes higher mortality - PM Johnson

• 6 hours   ago
• Health

By Zamira Rahim, CNN

New COVID-19 variant defeats plasma treatment, may reduce vaccine efficacy

• 7 hours   ago
• Health

The new COVID-19 variant identified in South Africa can evade the antibodies that attack it in treatments using blood plasma from previously

Covid-19: Man who hid from police in girlfriend's shower jailed

• 7 hours   ago
• Lifestyle

A sick couple rushed to marry in UK COVID ward. Now they have a second chance

• 7 hours   ago
• Lifestyle

British couple Elizabeth Kerr and Simon O’Brien had been planning to marry in June. Then COVID-19 struck.
Both contracted the

What we know about India's coronavirus vaccines

• 19 hours   ago
• Information

Biden orders masks, travel clampdown in new war on Covid

• 21 hours   ago
• International

By Sebastian Smith, AFP
President Joe Biden on Thursday tightened mask wearing rules and ordered quaran

Oxford scientists preparing vaccine versions to combat emerging virus variants

• 2 days   ago
• Health

Oxford scientists are preparing to rapidly produce new versions of their vaccine to combat emerging more contagious COVID-19 variants discovered

Three COVID-19 vaccines under final review for emergency use - WHO

• 2 days   ago
• Health

The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday that three COVID-19 vaccines were in the late stages of review for possible emergency use

Three more persons arrested for violating quarantine rules in Qatar

• 2 days   ago
• Local

The designated authorities arrested on Wednesday three people for violating the legal requirements of home quarantine.
The arrests came

271 new Covid-19 confirmed cases in Qatar, no new death case as of Jan. 20

• 3 days   ago
• Local

Qatar announced today, January 20, 2021, the registration of 271 new confirmed cases of coronavirus (Covid-19), with 132 patients infected with

Kuwait registers first cases of new virus variant

• 3 days   ago
• International

Kuwait has registered its first cases of a more contagious coronavirus variant in two Kuwaiti women who had been in Britain, the health ministry

Ministry of Public Health Updates List of Groups Eligible for Home Quarantine

• 3 days   ago
• Local

The Ministry of Public Health announced Tuesday an update to the list of groups eligible for home quarantine, to become effective starting Sunday,

203 new Covid-19 confirmed cases in Qatar, no new death case as of Jan. 19

• 3 days   ago
• Local

Qatar announced today, January 19, 2021, the registration of 203 new confirmed cases of coronavirus (Covid-19), with 203 patients infected with

Japan finds COVID-19 variant in three people with no record of travel to UK

• 4 days   ago
• Updates

Japanese doctors have detected a fast-spreading variant of the new coronavirus first discovered in Britain in three people who had not travelled

Previous coronavirus infection may offer less protection from new variant

• 4 days   ago
• Health

REUTERS
Previous infection with the coronavirus may offer less protection against the new variant first identified in South Africa,

Due to Coronavirus Is virtual reality tourism about to take off?

• 5 days   ago
• Technology

For many people, a trip to Germany's fairytale-like Neuschwanstein castle, the Republic of Ireland's stunning Cliffs of Moher, or the

COVID-19: Brazil approves and rolls out AstraZeneca and Sinovac vaccines

• 5 days   ago
• Updates

Yemen: The doctor alone in a Covid-ravaged hospital

• 5 days   ago
• Lifestyle

As war-torn Yemen braces itself for a second wave of Covid-19, one doctor recalls how she battled the pandemic alone after her colleagues fled the

Covid-19: Can you catch the virus outside?

• 5 days   ago
• Health

By David Shukman, BBC
With the risk of catching coronavirus indoors well established, the little allowed contact with friends