The FDA plans to limit access to certain high-risk groups and also told Pfizer and Moderna to update their warning labels about heart inflammation.

Preliminary data from researchers in China suggest the NB.1.8.1 variant is not better at evading the immune system compared to other strains on the rise, but it does have a greater ability to bind to human cells, suggesting it could be more transmissible.

Theatre nurse David Collyer wanted to shoot a documentary photography project in the last years of the Welsh hospital he worked in. Then Covid-19 appeared.

Health officials are sounding the alarm over a dangerous new COVID-19 strain as hospitalisation rates in China surge. The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) data shows that patients from nine countries have tested positive for the new strain - China, Japan, Vietnam, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, France, the Netherlands and Spain.

Since regaining power in January, the Trump administration has repeatedly claimed with false certainty that the COVID-19 pandemic originated in a lab. But there isn’t clear evidence that the virus came from a lab.

In Bengaluru, 32 of Karnataka’s 35 active cases are from the city, including a nine-month-old baby now under treatment at Vani Vilas Hospital. Health officials said infections have been steadily rising over the past 20 days and urged citizens, especially high-risk groups, to resume COVID-appropriate behaviour.