Covid-19

Reading Time: < 1 minuteCabinet ministers have backed the use of vaccine certificates for travellers wanting to head abroad this year. Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThere is currently no cure for coronavirus, with the world pinning its hopes on mass vaccination to end the pandemic. Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe gap between doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine should be no more than six weeks apart, according to scientists behind the jab. …

Reading Time: < 1 minuteUp to four in 10 patients with Covid in the first wave may have caught the virus in hospital, leading to a…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAccording to Soumya Swaminathan, the chief scientist at the WHO, people have become reinfected with new variants of the pandemic.  Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe figure is now between 0.7 and 0.9, according to the latest estimate.  Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minutePeople vaccinated with the Pfizer vaccine are four times less likely to spread the Coronavirus, even before they have received their second…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteHard-pressed hospital staff in Mozambique are not only fighting a sevenfold increase in COVID cases, but they have no functioning track-and-trace system,…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteWe can only glimpse viruses with advanced microscopes. Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minute  The arthritis drug tocilizumab reduces the risk of critically ill patients dying of COVID-19, according to results of a study on…