This two super spreader variants, Delta and Omicron, have ravaged the country since March in 2020 when the coronavirus case was reported first.
May 17, 2022The disruptions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic pushed an estimated 55 million Africans into extreme poverty in 2020 and reversed more than two decades of poverty reduction in Africa, said a report by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA).
May 16, 2022New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern confirmed on Saturday that she had tested positive for Covid-19.
May 14, 2022The country has reported 17,400 new COVID-19 cases, taking the total number of infections to 520,000, according to the KCNA news agency.
May 14, 2022The number of critically-ill patients came to 354, down by 29 on Wednesday.
May 12, 2022WA Health recorded 16,670 new Covid-19 cases till 8 p.m. Wednesday evening, a slight drop from Wednesday's 17,033 cases, a record peak for the state since the pandemic began in Australia in early 2020.
May 12, 2022Microsoft co-founder, Bill Gates tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday.
May 12, 2022With the successful rollout of vaccines and reduction in Covid-19 cases, most employers (77 percent) now plan on having their people working from the office.
May 11, 2022The countrywide vaccination drive began on January 16 last year with healthcare workers getting inoculated in the first phase.
May 10, 2022The daily positivity rate on Saturday was 0.78 per cent while the weekly positivity rate was 0.79 per cent.
May 7, 2022As viruses start to jump between host species at unprecedented rates, the authors say that the impacts on conservation and human health could be stunning.
May 6, 2022The ongoing severe lockdown restrictions in China's Shanghai to contain the spread of COVID-19 has drastically affected the day-to-day lives of the people due to food shortage.
May 5, 2022Scientists still recommend wearing face masks to avoid the spread of coronavirus. Scientists found that they were able to frequently discover virus in air around Covid-19 patients and the positivity rate eventually increased in the premises where more patients were present.
May 4, 2022Chou said that it was due to hygiene and public health measures, and/or decreased exposures to particulate matter and viral triggers.
May 4, 2022After months of relaxed alert levels in place, fears about a resurgence of Covid-19 cases seem to be coming true.
May 4, 2022In the study, a team of scientists from the University of Cambridge and Imperial College London found that Covid survivors were less accurate and with slower response times - and these deficits were still detectable when the patients were following up six months later. The effects were strongest for those who required mechanical ventilation.
May 3, 2022A total of 4,271 COVID-19 recovered in the past 24 hours, while as many as 16,266 people are still undergoing treatment in hospitals across the country.
May 3, 2022