By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The Italy Ministry of Health reported 969 COVID-19 deaths in the past day, making it the highest single day death count to date. This brings the country’s total...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews South Africa’s National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) reported an additional 218 lab confirmed COVID-19 cases Thursday, bringing the country total...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The Philippines Department of Health (DOH) reported an additional 96 coronavirus disease 2019, or COVID-19 cases today, bringing the country total to 803. In addition,...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The Minister of Health, Daniel Salas announced Thursday that five private laboratories were approved to carry out the COVID-19 test. They are: LABIN Laboratories,...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Nigerian health officials reported 28 confirmed Lassa fever cases during the week ending March 22, a decrease from 51 confirmed cases the week prior. This brings...

The number of potential therapeutic options for treatment of COVID-19 is growing. Approaches include blocking SARS-CoV-2 from entering cells, disrupting the virus’ replication, antivirals, vaccines,...

Valneva SE announced this week that it has successfully completed an End-of-Phase 2 meeting with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and agreed on the clinical development plan towards licensure...

As scientists scramble to learn more about the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, two recent studies of the virus’ genome reached controversial conclusions: namely, that snakes are intermediate hosts of the...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews New York state officials confirmed 6,448 additional cases of novel coronavirus, bringing the statewide total to 37,258 confirmed cases in New York State. This is approximately...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The Malaysia Ministry of Health (MOH) reported an additional 235 new COVID-19 cases today, bringing the case total to 2,031. The death count in the country has risen...