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.

Boris Johnson is facing pressure to impose another national lockdown as dozens of countries banned UK arrivals to keep out a new fast-spreading variant of Covid. Tougher coronavirus restrictions will ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

There is no evidence that the Brazilian mutant of coronavirus has reached the UK, Grant Shapps has said. The Transport Secretary was asked on BBC Radio 4's Today programme if the "more transmissible" ...

With Japan in the grip of a fresh outbreak of the novel coronavirus, the 11th to date, experts are urging people to take ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...