Medicine & TechnologyIn Indonesia, two rare Sumatran tigers tested positive for COVID-19 last month and are being treated by zookeepers. Jakarta officials are now investigating the cause of the infection as none of their caretakers and zoo staff have the infection.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention claimed that fully vaccinated persons are at a higher risk of COVID-19 infection with the Delta variant and can spread the disease as easily as those who have not been vaccinated.
An American scientist recovered deleted virus sequence a year after it was removed from the public database Sequence Read Archive. Finding the missing genetic sequence data is valuable in determining the origin of SARS-CoV-2.
Research recently calculated the risk of a vaccine-resistant COVID-19 strain that's emerging under different scenarios, a modified model of the virus's transmission showed.
As the world slowly eases back on traveling in the shadow of other COVID-19 variants, Lufthansa is taking one step ahead in safety by approving a new pre-flight rapid home test kit for its passengers.
Other people suffer from the highly contagious disease for longer, battling its effects for weeks or months after. These are the COVID-19 "Long Haulers": and their stories see the light of day thanks to a new book.
While the delta variant of COVID-19 has rapidly become the prevalent strain in the United States, another strain, the lambda variant is also making the headline after it was recently identified in Peru.
Breakthrough infections are rare but not impossible even after getting vaccinated. So what should fully vaccinated people do when they were exposed to infected COVID-19 patients?
A Chinese government health official recently denied that the Wuhan Institute of Virology or WIV workers were not infected with COVID-19 shortly before the virus first occurred.
A new study on COVID-19 suggests that antibodies against the coronavirus are active 9 months in people after being infected. Strong evidence of the antibody research were recorded from Vo, a town in Italy that had the most positive cases at the early surge of the pandemic.
COVID-19 vaccines are shown to be strongly effective in preempting symptomatic, clinically apparent disease, and most specifically the rise of the COVID-19 Delta variant.