The chief medical adviser to the UK Health and Security Agency has warned that a newly identified Covid-19 variant in southern Africa is the “most worrying we’ve seen”, with transmission levels not recorded since the beginning of the pandemic. Dr Susan Hopkins said...

Japan has closed its borders to all foreign visitors. File pic: AP Japan will close to all foreign travellers from Tuesday, in a bid to slow the spread of the new Omicron variant of COVID-19. It means the country will restore border controls it had only eased earlier...

Omicron's spike protein with new mutations seen in red, blue, gold and black. Pic: Centre for Virus Research at the University of Glasgow A South African doctor who was one of the first to suspect a different coronavirus strain has said that symptoms of the Omicron...

Molnupiravir is the first oral antiviral treatment for Covid to report clinical trial results. The first pill designed to treat symptomatic Covid has been approved by the UK medicines regulator. The tablet - molnupiravir - will be given twice a day to vulnerable...

Nov 3 (Reuters) - Here's what you need to know about the coronavirus right now: India's first homegrown shot gets WHO emergency use listing The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday said it had approved Indian drugmaker Bharat Biotech's COVID-19 vaccine for...

CHICAGO, Nov 3 (Reuters) - As the devastating Delta variant surge eases in many regions of the world, scientists are charting when, and where, COVID-19 will transition to an endemic disease in 2022 and beyond, according to Reuters interviews with over a dozen leading...

Prof Van-Tam: "There are some hard months to come in the winter" "Very high" coronavirus rates in the UK at present mean there are hard months to come, England's deputy chief medical officer has warned. Prof Jonathan Van-Tam told the BBC it was a concern that Covid...