NewsDesk @bactiman63 Data from two CDC reports Friday show COVID-19 vaccine boosters remain safe and continue to be highly effective against severe disease over time. In the first study, CDC reviewed...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 Hanoi The Hanoi COVID-19 bulletin on February 8 released by the Department of Health this evening said that in the past 24 hours, the city recorded 2,903 new cases. Newly detected...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 Wearing a face mask can help reduce the spread of COVID-19 in the community by reducing the release of respiratory droplets from asymptomatic / pre-symptomatic individuals or those...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 According to the India Ministry of Health, the COVID-19 death toll has topped the 500,000 mark today, becoming the third country to eclipse that total. After reporting 1072 additional...

NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The Japan Ministry of Health is reporting the cumulative COVID-19 case total for the country has surpassed the 3 million case mark. The total cases are now 3,025,620...

NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The New Zealand government announced today a plan for reopening it’s borders after about 2 years. The New Zealand border will reopen to vaccinated Kiwis and other...

NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews A week after Denmark said they are no longer categorizing COVID-19 as a “socially critical disease”, The Swedish Public Health Agency said it had reassessed...

NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews In 2006, a team from Johns Hopkins University which included Tom Inglesby, Jennifer Nuzzo and the late, great smallpox eradicator and former dean of what is now the Johns...

NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews A new study from MIT suggests that the dozens of mutations in the spike protein of the Omicron variant help it to evade all four of the classes of antibodies that can...

NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews According to the Republic of Serbia Ministry of Health, a total of 1,697,012 confirmed cases of COVID-19 were registered in the Republic of Serbia by 3 pm on February...