Category: Infectious diseases, COVID-19

Pandemic preparedness experts have warned that initial steps to successfully tackle a future pandemic on…

Documents detailing negotiations between covid vaccine manufacturers and the South African government show how drug…

More than 40 former heads of state and leading global health advocates have urged world…

The World Health Organization has added a new covid-19 strain, JN.1, to its list of…

It was a day like any other—albeit at the height of a global pandemic. Monkgomotsi…

Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) were “unequivocally” effective when rolled out in tandem during the covid pandemic…

Paxlovid (nirmatrelvir-ritonavir) is one of many oral antivirals that have been tested against SARS-CoV-2. Several…

The Department of Health and Social Care was guilty of “panic buying” personal protective equipment…

Where do known viruses linger in the body?Virus particles often hide in “immunoprivileged sites” around…

The World Health Organization’s new pandemic preparedness treaty is being watered down and stripped of…

What are the best treatments for covid-19?Written in cooperation with the World Health Organization, The…

The antiviral drug molnupiravir does not reduce hospital admissions or deaths among vaccinated high risk…

The covid-19 pandemic showed us that non-pharmaceutical interventions such as masks, social distancing, border control,…

The Chinese government has been struggling to quell protests against lockdowns throughout the country that…

The question of how Russia is doing in the ongoing pandemic is an opaque one….

Experts are urging the UK public to get their winter vaccines, as early signs indicate…

Molnupiravir, a covid-19 antiviral drug bought by the UK government in the amount of 2.23…

Long covid really shouldn’t have been a surprise, says Vett Lloyd, a biologist at Mount…

When Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine in late February 2022, two years after the identification…

People infected with the omicron variant show poor immunity boosting against future covid-19 infection, researchers…

It seems like a lifetime ago, but the first clinically approved vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 was…

Short term benefits are seen after a second covid-19 vaccine booster—normally a fourth vaccine dose—in…

The Chinese government has introduced unprecedented public health measures in the city of Shanghai in…

Coronavirus infections are surging in Hong Kong as the city has reported the highest number…

Although Russian covid vaccines are licensed in over 70 countries, their success on the international…

There’s a stark difference in how high and middle to low income countries have been…

South Africa has relaxed its covid-19 restrictions as it reports that the peak of its…

Nearly 40% of China’s population of about 1.4 billion people live outside urban areas, 2020…

Maintenance of containment has greatly reduced the impact of covid-19 lives lost and socioeconomic progress,…

The risk of outbreaks of measles across the world is mounting because the covid-19 pandemic…

Time is running out for world leaders to act to end the current covid-19 pandemic…

Why are we seeing a surge in infections?Respiratory syncytial virus activity was very low in…

New Zealand and much of eastern Australia are in lockdown this week, but these two…

France and Greece have announced that vaccinations against SARS-CoV-2 will be mandatory for healthcare workers,…

For most of 2020, the notion that SARS-CoV-2 may have originated in a lab in…

Cases of common cold, flu, and other respiratory diseases in England are substantially lower than…

The pandemic friendly greeting?No. We’re talking about the “second wave of the [covid-19] pandemic” that…

Yemen’s already collapsing healthcare system is buckling as the coronavirus pandemic hits an infrastructure already…

Registered deaths mentioning covid-19 in England and Wales are continuing to decline, with 1822 deaths…

Physical distancing of at least a metre is associated with a “large reduction” in covid-19…

The covid-19 pandemic has laid bare the impact of years of spending cuts and muddled…

With data showing that covid-19 outbreaks are occurring in 38% of care homes, a concerted…

An alternating cycle of 50 days of lockdown followed by 30 days of easing could…

Doctors have told The BMJ they are deeply concerned at the number of patients becoming…

Just 0.27% of people—one in 370—are estimated to have had covid-19 outside of hospitals and…

bmj;369/may13_6/m1920/FAF1faFrank Augstein/AP/ShutterstockThe morning after Boris Johnson announced the easing of covid-19 lockdown restrictions in England,…