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‘Air sanitizing spray’ effective against coronavirus launched

Reckitt's Lysol disinfectant brand said on Tuesday that it would start selling in the U.S. an "air sanitizing spray" that kills 99.9% of airborne...

NIH confirms one death from coronavirus in Sindh

ISLAMABAD: The National Institute of Health (NIH) on Sunday confirmed that one death was reported in Sindh from COVID-19 during the last 24 hours. As...

Sinopharm unit gets OK for clinical trials of mRNA COVID vaccine

Sinopharm said on Friday its biotech unit has received regulatory approval for clinical trials of its mRNA COVID-19 vaccine targeting the Omicron variant. The unit,...

Scientists plan to expand genomic sequencing from COVID to flu

Genomic sequencing allowed the world to track new coronavirus variants throughout the pandemic. Now British researchers plan to use it to better understand a...

Pakistan reports 23 new Covid-19 cases in 24 hours

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has reported 24 fresh Covid-19 cases during the last 24 hours, ARY News reported on Saturday, quoting the National Institute of Health...

Explainer: What do we know about COVID variant XBB.1.5?

The Omicron subvariant, XBB.1.5, is causing concern among scientists after its rapid spread in the United States in December. Here is what we know so...

Indonesia lifts remaining COVID restrictions

Indonesia on Friday removed all remaining measures to control the spread of COVID-19 effective immediately, since most of the country's population already has antibodies...

Shanghai Disneyland to remain temporarily closed starting today

The Shanghai Disney Resort said on Monday it will be temporarily closed starting Tuesday, Nov. 29 to comply with COVID-19 prevention measures. The resort said...

Measles now an imminent global threat: WHO

There is now an imminent threat of measles spreading in various regions globally, as COVID-19 led to a steady decline in vaccination coverage and...

China’s COVID infections hit record

China reported record high COVID-19 infections on Thursday, with cities nationwide imposing localised lockdowns, mass testing and other curbs that are fuelling frustration and...

Coronavirus: Guangzhou to build 250,000 quarantine beds

The southern Chinese city of Guangzhou is setting up makeshift hospitals and quarantine sites with capacity for nearly 250,000 beds for COVID-19 infections, officials...

UK approves Pfizer’s COVID booster targeting Omicron BA.4/5

UK health regulator on Wednesday approved the country's first two-pronged COVID-19 booster targeting the Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 sub-variants and the original coronavirus strain. The...

WHO says COVID-19 is still a global health emergency

The World Health Organization said on Wednesday that COVID-19 remains a global emergency, nearly three years after it was first declared as one. The WHO's...

Moderna signs deal on variant-adapted COVID shots for world’s poorest

Moderna has agreed to provide its new variant-adapted COVID-19 vaccine to the global scheme aiming to deliver shots to the world's poorest people. The biotech...

Fujifilm stops work on Avigan as COVID drug

Fujifilm has ended development of its anti-influenza drug Avigan to treat COVID-19, the firm said on Friday, after more than two years of work...

Pfizer, BioNTech say updated COVID booster protects against Omicron

Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech said their COVID-19 vaccine booster, adapted for the BA.4 and the BA.5 subvariants of Omicron, generated a strong...

‘Europe likely entering another COVID wave’

Another wave of COVID-19 infections may have begun in Europe as cases begin to tick up across the region, the World Health Organization and...

Indonesia in talks with African countries to export its COVID vaccine

Indonesia is in talks with several African countries, including Nigeria, to export and donate its homemade COVID-19 vaccine Indovac, its developer said on Friday,...

Top scientists join forces to study leading theory behind long COVID

Top scientists from leading academic centers are banding together to answer a key question about the root cause of long COVID - whether fragments...

Long COVID’s link to suicide: scientists warn of crisis

Scott Taylor never got to move on from COVID-19. The 56-year-old, who caught the disease in spring 2020, still had not recovered about 18...
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