With the chill of winter upon us, Dr Helen Wall has been sharing vital information about the emerging strain, which could soon become the most dominant yet. The BBC Breakfast …
If you’re feeling under the weather and suspect it could be Covid, our response now is vastly different from when the virus first emerged in 2020. With new variants of …
World Health Organisation’s boss Tedros Ghebreyesu, has urged countries to sign up to a new pandemic treaty as he warned of ‘Disease X’. An unidentified future virus could be even …
A new Covid variant is spreading fast in the US, and it’s “highly contagious”, a doctor who specialises in infectious diseases has warned. New variant JN.1 is a heavily mutated …
With the arrival of the latest COVID-19 variants within the country and the looming flu season on the horizon, many Canadians may be wondering if they should get their booster …
Federal scientists will be monitoring global research to determine the effectiveness of updated vaccines against the latest COVID-19 variant, Health Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada say. Canada’s …
The first case of a new, highly-mutated variant of the virus that causes COVID-19 has been detected for the first time in Canada, British Columbia health officials said on Tuesday. …
A surge in COVID-19 cases across countries in the Northern Hemisphere is causing concern for global health authorities, given that these regions usually witness a peak in respiratory illnesses during …
The Public Health Agency of Canada is tracking a new, highly mutated variant of the virus that causes COVID-19 which has been detected in at least four countries, Health Canada …
EG.5, the fast-spreading COVID-19 subvariant, is now circulating in Canada as health officials across the world grapple to figure out its potential impact on transmissibility, severity and vaccine effectiveness. The …