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<!-- -->New York City has about 8 million ratsA new study has found that New York City rats can become infected with the virus that causes COVID-19, The Guardian reported. New York City has about 8 million rats, and they have ample…

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The updated COVID-19 boosters from Pfizer Inc/BioNTech and Moderna helped prevent symptomatic infections against the new XBB-related subvariants, offering new evidence of how the vaccines perform against these fast-spreading strains,…

As the World Health Organization prepares to decide whether COVID-19 remains a global emergency, the UN agency’s director-general says key pandemic indicators are going in the wrong direction, including a rising number of deaths.…

The Centre could test wastewater samples of international aircraft to track emerging new variants of SARS-CoV-2 in India, reported TOI. "The project is being actively considered," a senior official from the Union health ministry told TOI…

Last Updated: January 03, 2023, 00:06 ISTTravellers wait with their luggage at Beijing Capital International Airport, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Beijing, China December 27, 2022. (Image: Reuters)Belgium is also…

A bout of COVID-19 infection may not be enough for long-lasting immunity as the virus continues to mutate and new variants emerge. Infection-acquired immunity from catching COVID-19 can act as a protective layer for a period of time,…

Since its emergence in 2020, COVID-19 has produced multiple mutations as it spread across the world. Many of those variants did not become dominant, but few did including Alpha, Delta and Omicron. Those mutations caught the attention…

Reported cases of COVID-19 have doubled globally in the last six weeks, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Wednesday. The increase in cases is being driven mainly by the highly contagious BA.5 subvariant of Omicron — a strain…