COVID

The gap in the life expectancy of men and women has been widening in the US in the last decade new research led by UC San Francisco and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health shows. According to the researchers,...

The 2023 Nobel Prize in Medicine has been awarded jointly to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for research that was critical in the development of mRNA vaccines against Covid-19. The Nobel committee honored Hungarian-born biochemist Karikó and US immunologist Weissman...

Scientists in China were running a covert project of dangerous experiments that caused a leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology and started the Covid outbreak, a report in The Sunday Times reveals. Citing US investigators, the report said there...

The World Health Organization added “Disease X" to its short list of “priority diseases” that could cause the next deadly pandemic. The term Disease X is used by the WHO as a placeholder to describe a disease that’s unknown to...

COVID is no longer a global health emergency, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Friday. “For more than a year, the pandemic has been on a downward trend with population immunity increasing from vaccination and infection, mortality decreasing, and...

Arcturus, a newly discovered Covid variant, is the most transmissible variant yet and has already been detected in 29 countries as of April 11, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Also known as Omicron subvariant XBB.1.16, it has been...

Travelers from China enter Greece without checks despite the government's decision last week to demand a negative COVID-19 test and masks. A report on SKAI TV on Thursday said that confusion prevails at Athens International Airport. Travelers arriving from Shanghai...

Greece will impose COVID-related restrictions on travelers from China, it was announced after a government meeting on Thursday. The country will demand a negative COVID-19 test and masks for travelers from China at the airports of Greece. This is a complete...

The new Omicron sub-variant XBB.1.5 is causing some concern in Asia and the US, where it is spreading rapidly. XBB.1.5 is a sub-lineage of the Omicron subvariant XBB and has been deemed by the World Health Organization (WHO) as the...

Greece has no intention of imposing restrictions on travelers from China over COVID-19, Greece's National Public Health Organization (EODY) announced on Saturday. "Our country will not impose restrictive measures for international movements, in accordance with the recommendations of international organizations...