What to know about new COVID-19 subvariants driving up cases in Indiana
BA.5, a subvariant of omicron, accounts for nearly 54% of the country’s current cases and may be the most contagious...
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Europe Travel Restrictions, Covid-19 Test Requirements, By Country, For July
Many European countries have scrapped travel restrictions relating to Covid-19—the latest countries include Estonia, Finland, and Portugal from 1 July....
Hong Kong Suspends Absurd Flight Ban Policy
For well over two years now, Hong Kong has imposed among the strictest travel measures of anywhere in the world....
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China IPO applications jump, bucking global trend, as COVID curbs ease
A sign for STAR Market, China's new Nasdaq-style tech board, is seen after the listing ceremony of the first batch...
‘We are in the midst of the worst surge of COVID that we have seen since the beginning of the pandemic’: Doctors send warning as cases continue to rise in Houston area
HOUSTON – With Harris County having a count of more than 1 million COVID cases, and Houston wastewater revealing seven...
Guatemala’s COVID vaccine roll-out failed: here’s what researchers know
A woman receives a dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine in San Juan Sacatepequez, Guatemala, in July 2021.Credit: Johan Ordonez/AFP...
How to protect yourself from super-infectious coronavirus’ BA.5
The growing dominance of two super-infectious Omicron subvariants is threatening to exacerbate California’s coronavirus wave, but experts and officials say...
COVID-19 was a Leading Cause of Death in the US in 2020 and 2021
A new analysis found that COVID-19 was the third leading cause of death overall — accounting for almost 1 in...
Beijing city walks back plan to tighten Covid vaccine requirements — after just one day
Beijing city toned down a plan to require Covid vaccinations to enter some public venues, and maintained that a negative...
COVID-19 vaccines may have saved 235,000 lives
A modeling study led by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) researchers estimates that COVID-19 vaccination averted 27 million...