White flags represent each life lost in the US to Covid More than 800,000 Americans have now died from the coronavirus, the highest recorded national death toll from the global pandemic. It comes as the US reached 50 million confirmed cases of Covid-19 on Monday. Most...

By John Sparks, Africa correspondent, in Alexandra township, Johannesburg Friday 10 December 2021 12:01, UK A local councillor in Alexandra has said the new strain is spreading through the township "very fast" - as the number of Omicron infections confirmed in the UK...

Published Dec. 10, 2021Updated Dec. 14, 2021 The country has increased its genomic surveillance to try to track Omicron’s spread, but the true number of cases is likely far higher. New York State is making masking mandatory at businesses and venues that don’t require...

The Technical Advisory Group on SARS-CoV-2 Virus Evolution (TAG-VE) is an independent group of experts that periodically monitors and evaluates the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 and assesses if specific mutations and combinations of mutations alter the behaviour of the...

The chief medical adviser to the UK Health and Security Agency has warned that a newly identified Covid-19 variant in southern Africa is the “most worrying we’ve seen”, with transmission levels not recorded since the beginning of the pandemic. Dr Susan Hopkins said...