A patient in the infectious diseases department of the Cannizzaro hospital in Italy in April. [Courtesy] Italy has detected a patient with the new mutant strain of coronavirus also found in the UK.

The quickly changing coronavirus has spawned yet another super contagious omicron mutant that's worrying scientists as it gains ground in India and pops up in numerous other countries, including the ...

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In a recent study posted to the bioRxiv preprint* server, researchers in Japan evaluated the virological characteristics of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) KP.3.1.1 ...

Health minister Katsunobu Kato gave the green light on April 27 to reclassifying COVID-19 into the same category as the ...

Pfizer is about to seek U.S. authorization for a third dose of its COVID-19 vaccine, saying Thursday that another shot within 12 months could dramatically boost immunity and maybe help ward off the ...

A new coronavirus mutation, a subvariant of omicron, has piqued the interest of scientists: BA.2.75. The quickly changing omicron mutation has gained ground in India and has appeared in other ...

CHICAGO, Ill. — Health officials in Colorado said this week the new strain of COVID-19 is here in the United States. The mutant coronavirus variant emerged in the United Kingdom in September and has ...

A new “double mutant” variant of the coronavirus has been detected from samples collected in India. Officials are checking if the variant, where two mutations come together in the same virus, may be ...

British scientists were scrambling Saturday to work out whether a mutant strain of the coronavirus, which has been spreading rapidly in England this month, may be resistant to the crop of newly ...