4 March 2023
A lion at Potawatomi Zoo in South Bend, Indiana, tested positive for the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus after it started coughing and became breathless. Zoo workers who had cared for the lion later caught the infection
16 February 2023
A modelling study suggests that the proportion of cases involving pneumonia-causing bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics has increased amid the covid-19 pandemic
9 February 2023
A gel that lines the respiratory tract prevented coronavirus infections in mice and monkeys, and may also work against any future new variants
19 January 2023
An artificial intelligence picked up on audio samples where the speaker was probably infected with omicron with 80 per cent accuracy, potentially offering an inexpensive way of tracking cases
28 December 2022
Any new covid-19 vaccine must be better than the ones we already have, setting a high bar for approval that is not expected to be met in 2023
14 December 2022
As the world faced the third year of the coronavirus pandemic, Iceland began 2022 by shifting towards "herd immunity" while China ended the year easing its zero covid approach
23 November 2022
Seasonal infections are set to spike, while the cost-of-living crisis is also expected to affect some children’s mental and physical health
31 October 2022
The subvariants BQ.1.1 and XBB may somewhat evade prior immunity, however, further research is required
17 October 2022
In England, 15.8 per cent of children aged 12 to 15 from Gypsy or Roma ethnic groups have received at least one vaccine dose, compared with 83.5 per cent of their counterparts in Chinese ethnic groups
4 October 2022
The covid-19 pandemic has been linked to a decline in the proportion of male babies being born, in line with previous findings that fewer boys are born after population-wide stressful events
