The three men, aged 61, 49 and 41 have all been hospitalised in Salzburg with Covid-19 and are believed to have travelled to Saalbach-Hinterglemm, Austria, from Italy The Salzburg Landeskliniken hospital dealing with quarantined patients in the area, including the…
PCR tests work by detecting specific genetic material within the virus. If you wake up one morning with a fever, shortness of breath and a cough — in other words, symptoms of the new coronavirus — you’ll likely wonder how…
The patient, who showed no symptoms of Covid-19, was tested at a hospital in the Japanese city of Gamagori after both his parents – whom he lives with – contracted the virus Coronavirus cases in Japan have risen over 1,000…
Figures released by China show the spread of coronavirus is rapidly slowing, suggesting the state’s hardline measures are working, as quarantine measures in some cities are relaxed China appears to be winning the war on coronavirus with new cases dropping…
With more than 378 confirmed coronavirus cases in the U.S. and more than 15 associated deaths, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is actively monitoring, and trying to contain, the transmission of the disease, called COVID-19. In some…
Could the flu vaccine combat the coronavirus? That’s the question President Donald Trump asked during a White house roundtable discussion between his coronavirus task force and pharmaceutical company executives on Monday (March 2). His question was answered with a direct…
Doctors in crisis-hit Wuhan carried out an autopsy on one 85-year-old victim and discovered he had suffered extensive scarring to his lungs after falling ill with COVID-19 in January Medics tackling coronavirus say the disease is like a deadly combination…
Children are no less likely than adults to become infected with the new coronavirus, but they are less likely to get seriously ill from it. Those are the results of a new study from China’s Shenzhen province uploaded on the…
This is a transmission electron microscope image showing the new coronavirus emerging from the surface of human cells. The new coronavirus, like all other viruses, mutates, or undergoes small changes in its genome. A recently published study suggested that the…
A newly identified coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 is spreading across the globe. Here’s what you need to know about the virus and the disease it causes, called COVID-19. Update on Friday, March 6 (ET): . —WHO director-general calls on countries to take…