For comparison, the coronavirus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, SARS‑CoV‑2, has a human case fatality rate of around 2 percent, according to a 2022 study. The great fruit-eating bat (Artibeus ...

A 45-year-old woman in Kolkata has been diagnosed with an infection caused by the human coronavirus HKU1, and she is currently receiving treatment at a private hospital in South Kolkata. The woman ...

Insect-eating bat of the species Molossus molossus in which were found a novel coronavirus in South America, closely related to MERS-CoV, and a human-associated gemykibivirus. Credit: Larissa Leão ...

For most people, the Covid-19 pandemic, which officially began five years ago this month, marked their first encounter with case counts and N-95 masks and lockdown orders. Not me, though.

A new coronavirus feared to be able to spread to humans has been discovered by a China-linked scientist. Researchers from Brazil and colleagues affiliated with the University of Hong Kong ...

FRANKFURT, March 12 (Reuters) - Germany's foreign intelligence service in 2020 put at 80%-90% the likelihood that the coronavirus behind the COVID-19 pandemic was accidentally released from China ...

He found an answer in SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, that was rapidly spreading around the world. In March 2020, as rumours swirled that Tokyo might face a lockdown ...

Tuesday marks five years since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. In a quick succession of events, schools and businesses shut down, lockdowns were put in place ...

Five years on, the onset of the coronavirus pandemic is still fresh – though the speed of the news cycle can make it feel like long ago. Some hallmarks of the pandemic era are still common ...

About 1.22 million people have died of COVID in the U.S., CDC data shows. Tuesday marks five years since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the global outbreak of COVID-19 to be a pandemic.

Questions remain over where COVID came from and how long it spread undetected. Five years ago, the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak to be a pandemic, leading to stay at ...