Two children are the first paediatric cases in the US where more than 2800 have been recorded.
Some on the front line of Australia’s latest coronavirus battle say they have observed early signs the new BA.5 subvariant may be increasing disease severity.
The decision by America’s Supreme Court to strike down abortion rights has created global shockwaves.
China,the country where COVID-19 was first detected,still has more than 90 million people aged over 60 who are under-vaccinated.
Britain’s health agency says men who have sex with men are at highest risk of the virus,which is not normally seen outside Africa.
The current name doesn’t fit with WHO guidelines that recommend avoiding geographic regions and animal names,a spokesperson said.
The WHO’s call for more research into the virus’ possible lab origins is a sharp reversal of the agency’s initial assessment.
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Twenty-nine countries have reported cases to the WHO in the current outbreak,which began in May.
“This is not COVID,” the former head of WHO’s emergencies department said. “We need to slow it down,but it does not spread in the air and we have vaccines to protect against it.”
Experts have pointed to a change in the spread of the usually mild infectious disease at an urgently called World Health Organisation meeting.