カテゴリー: Medical research
UK government’s latest Covid case figures show 37, 269 people tested positive; only 61% of Latvian adults are fully vaccinated, less than EU average of 75%Europe once again at centre of Covid pandemic, says WHOUK first country to approval oral antivira…
Parents alarmed as children held overnight before some sent to centralised quarantine for two weeksCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageChildren as young as seven were held for hours in a Beijing school before being sent to centr…
India, Egypt and Cuba among first states to develop and make their own vaccines as Covax falls behind Developing countries are increasingly turning to homegrown Covid vaccinations as the UN-backed Covax programme falls behind.While western countries ro…
Details are deficient, scientific analysis contentious and expert voices missing in Markson’s thesis about ‘what really happened’ in China, which establishes a crime scene around the Wuhan Institute of Virology With 4.55 million deaths from the Covid-1…
Head of the Waikato Mongrel Mob chapter Sonny Fatupaito was asked to encourage gang members and their families to get testedSee all our coronavirus coverageNew Zealand’s prime minister Jacinda Ardern has endorsed granting a Mongrel Mob leader special e…
After positive clinical trials for antiviral drug Molnupiravir, it joins other medicines that have shown promiseCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe first clinical trial results showing a positive effect for a pill that can b…
Expert’s clever analogies and frank messages to public have won him respect – and millions of followersEarly last year, as Covid-19 began to disrupt livelihoods in Shanghai, local media struggled to persuade the public to stay at home. Then they turned…
Assessment unable to conclude whether virus came from animals or a Wuhan lab, according to US mediaCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA classified US intelligence report delivered to the White House was inconclusive on the orig…
Whatever this week’s Biden review finds, the cause of the pandemic lies in the destruction of animal habitatsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIf Joe Biden’s security staff are up to the mark, a new report on the origins of th…
Hong Kong research suggests less time outdoors and more doing ‘near work’ accelerates short-sightednessCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageSpending more time indoors and on screens because of Covid restrictions may be linked to …
WHO proposal to audit Chinese laboratories is ‘arrogance towards science’, says health officialCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageChina’s government has refused to cooperate with the second stage of an international investigati…
Blanket reporting in News Corp papers has been denigrated for relying on dubious sources – yet the theory itself has taken on new life“BAT MAN” screeched the headline in Sydney’s Daily Telegraph on 28 April 2020. “Chinese scientists linked to virus pro…
Weakened lungs and immune systems make people increasingly vulnerable, warn scientistsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA rash of cases of a rare “black fungus” infection affecting thousands of critically ill Covid patients in…
Rates of mucormycosis were high even before the pandemic, and now the country is running out of antifungal drugsCovid-19 has killed millions around the world, but for some who are lucky enough to survive the infection, the nightmare is not over: adding…
Man, 41, in Jiangsu, diagnosed on 28 May but risk of avian virus spread is low, says state health agencyA 41-year-old man in China’s eastern province of Jiangsu has been confirmed as the first human case of infection with the H10N3 strain of bird flu, …