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This year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman "for their discoveries on nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID -19."more

Over the past two months in Romania, the number of weekly confirmed Covid-19 infections has increased more than 25 times, reports Digi24.ro, analyzing data from the Ministry of Health. The latest statistics indicate over 11.2 thousand. confirmed cases within a week.more

People 65 and over in England are being urged to get a top-up booster vaccine against Covid at a time when more people are coming into hospitals with the virus. more

Some vaccines should work mainly in the respiratory system, scientists say. This type of preparation against SARS-CoV2, they have just successfully tested on macaques.more

A senior CIA official reported to Congress that the agency bribed its own analysts investigating the genesis of the Covid-19 pandemic to change their assessment about the origin of the virus from a lab in Wuhan, China, Republican members of the House of Representatives Committee on Intelligence wrote in a letter to the CIA director. Ultimately, the agency said it could not determine the cause of tmore

Spain is recording a sharp increase in Covid 19 cases, according to data from the consulting company iQVIA, cited by Euronews.more

The variant known as BA.2.86 is not one "of concern", but scientists have said it carries a high number of mutations and is being monitored closely.more

Coronavirus testing and monitoring are set to be scaled up for the winter, the UK’s public health agency has said, as pressures on the health service are expected to rise in the coming months.more

There has been an increase in Covid-19 cases in Spain for two months, according to a report published by the Carlos III Health Institute. "Covid is not coming back, it never disappeared," said Oscar Zurriaga, president of the Spanish Epidemiological Society (SEE).more

In the face of autumn vaccination campaigns in EU Member States, we have approved a vaccine against COVID-19 adapted to the new variant of the virus, the European Commission announced today.more

The emergence of a new coronavirus variant - known as BA.2.86 - has led to an acceleration of the UK's flu and Covid-19 vaccination programme. The UKHSA wants all people at risk to be protected before the wave of infections arrives, which usually occurs in winter.more

There is no doubt that lockdowns, social distancing and wearing masks have limited the impact of the pandemic before vaccinations were introduced, a report by British specialists has shown. They point out that these are important conclusions also for the future.more

Thirty families are launching legal proceedings against the British government, nursing homes and several hospitals in England over the deaths of their relatives in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, the BBC reported yesterday.more

UK specialists have published the first findings of a new variant of a coronavirus called Pirola, recently detected on three continents - Europe, the US and Israel.more

Covid vaccines should be made available for people to buy privately in Britain, leading scientists have urged, amid concerns over a new wave of the virus which could worsen in autumn and winter.more

A new sub-strain of coronavirus has led to some scientists to call for a return to public mask-wearing. more

The pandemic is over, but the coronavirus remains and the number of cases of Covid-19 has increased in several German states. Experts suspect that this is the so-called Barbenheimer effect - the recently popular combined screening of "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer" films in cinemas, according to the "Spiegel" weekly website.more

More than 800,000 people across the UK are predicted to have Covid as a new variant, dubbed Eris, has rapidly spread to become the second most common strain after Arcturus. more

A new variant of the coronavirus called Eris, the second most widespread in the world, has arrived in Italy in a very short time, the newspaper Il Messaggero reported. According to Italian research, this variant is no more dangerous than other mutations.more

The government has unveiled a state-of-the-art research lab where scientists will work to bolster Britain’s defences against future pandemics.more

A new Covid variant codenamed Eris is spreading across the UK, according to the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA). One in seven Covid cases in the country is now down to the new Eris variant, as cases continue to rise.more

Dr Chris Papadopoulos, the Principal Lecturer in Public Health at the University of Bedfordshire, spoke exclusively to Express.co.uk after a reported rise in Covid cases in the UK.more

An Australian resident obsessively fearful of coronavirus infection has taken up residence in an 'airtight' tent with an air filter after his partner abandoned precautions against Covid-19 in their home, news.com.au reported.more

The British daily "Daily Mirror" published on its website a video from an event at the headquarters of the ruling Conservative Party in December 2020, during the ongoing covid restrictions, in which participants dance, drink alcohol and openly joke about the restrictions.more

Residents of Portugal's 10 million inhabitants spent a record amount of more than €3.41 billion on gambling in the first quarter of 2023, particularly on games of chance and online lotteries. This is three times more than before the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to government estimates.more