A s horrific as the U.S. Covid-19 outbreak looks right now, it is almost certainly about to get worse. They’ve raced through South Africa, the United Kingdom, and, increasingly, elsewhere, and now, ne

O n July 1 , a few days after a woman in India registered for an account on the careers site Naukri.com and uploaded a resume, a recruiter called her: One of the country’s leading real-estate companie

Relatives attend a COVID-19 victim’s burial in Manaus, Brazil, on 13 January. MICHAEL DANTAS/AFP via Getty Images Science ’ s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Heising-Sim

Published 16 January 2021 Share page About sharing Related Topics Coronavirus Image source, EPA Image caption, A nurse prepares a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine in Cannes, France Several

Published 15 January 2021 Share page About sharing Related Topics Coronavirus Media caption, Prime Minister Boris Johnson: "We will temporarily close all travel corridors from 0400 on Monday" The UK i

Health workers in Brazil’s largest state are begging for help and oxygen supplies after an explosion of Covid deaths and infections that one official compared to a tsunami and said could be linked to

Israeli startup Scentech Medical says its instant coronavirus breath test works, based on initial findings in recent trials, obtaining an accuracy level of 98 percent, similar to that of the standard

What Does a More Contagious Virus Mean for Schools? The coronavirus variant discovered in Britain is more easily spread among children, as it is among adults. Current safeguards should protect schools

In November, The Covid Tracking Project stopped reporting recovery figures for the United States as a whole, and yesterday we also removed many, though not all, of the state-level “recovered” values f

See more from our live coverage The U.K. bans travel from Latin America and Portugal, citing concern about a Brazilian variant. A TAP Air Portugal check-in desk at Heathrow Airport in London last mont

Published 13 January 2021 Share page About sharing Related Topics Coronavirus Image source, EPA Image caption, Younger workers, like this Jakarta mall vendor, are seen as key to tackling the virus cri

One Mask Is Good. Would Two Be Better? Health experts double down on their advice for slowing the spread of the coronavirus. A double-mask wearer in New York City in April. By Published Jan. 12, 2021

TOKYO -- Japan is barring entry of all nonresident foreign nationals as a precaution against a new and potentially more contagious coronavirus variant that has spread across Britain. The Foreign Minis

Biotechnology and health A new study shows immune cells primed to fight the coronavirus should persist for a long time after someone is vaccinated or recovers from infection. By January 6, 2021 NIH Ed

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One 18-Hour Flight, Four Coronavirus Infections An outbreak aboard a September flight from Dubai to New Zealand offers researchers, and airlines, an opportunity to study in-transit contagion. A masked

As Coronavirus Mutates, the World Stumbles Again to Respond A South African tip led to the discovery of mutations around the world. With infections skyrocketing, “it’s a race against time.” Greenacres

BIG CITY How the Wealthy Are Maneuvering to Get the Vaccine First They probably won’t have much success. But that won’t stop them from trying. A vial with the Pfizer vaccine reserved, at the moment at

After Quick Vaccine Success, Israel Faces New Virus Woes Israel imposed a tighter lockdown as coronavirus infections soared, the variant spread, vaccines were running out and a debate erupted over the

Japan Declares State of Emergency in Tokyo Area After Days of Hesitation Fast-rising coronavirus case counts and deaths forced Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga to act, but some say the restrictions — mos

U.S. Is Blind to Contagious New Virus Variant, Scientists Warn It’s not too late to curb the contagious variant’s spread in the U.S., experts say — but only with a national program for genetic sequenc

Published 6 January 2021 Share page About sharing Related Topics Coronavirus Image source, AFP Image caption, A new test and vaccination centre near Assen By Anna Holligan BBC News, The Hague The Dutc

Published 6 January 2021 Share page About sharing Related Topics Coronavirus Image source, Getty Images Image caption, It was initially believed that Covid-19 originated at a market in Wuhan A World H

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Published 4 January 2021 Share page About sharing Related Topics Coronavirus Image source, Reuters Image caption, There are concerns that the new Covid-19 variant in South Africa could "weaken the imp

A new variant of the coronavirus is spreading across the globe. It was first identified in the United Kingdom, where it is rapidly spreading, and has been found in multiple countries. Viruses mutate a

Real Estate The Silicon Valley investors who secretly bought up $800 million in Northern California real estate reveal unexpected plans for 'a city of yesterday' Jan Sramek, one of the Bay Area invest

Near the end of last year, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis revealed a plan to distribute the COVID-19 vaccine statewide using partnerships between the state, the federal government, hospitals— and, apparent

Coronavirus Variant Is Indeed More Transmissible, New Study Suggests Researchers warn that the British variant is so contagious that new control measures, including closing down schools and universiti

MADISON, Wis. — Authorities arrested a suburban Milwaukee pharmacist Thursday suspected of deliberately ruining hundreds of doses of coronavirus vaccine by removing them from refrigeration for two nig

We Came All This Way to Let Vaccines Go Bad in the Freezer? America did not sufficiently plan for how to get millions of people vaccinated. Dec. 31, 2020 By The editorial board is a group of opinion j

Updated at 11:14 p.m. ET on January 13, 2021. Three weeks ago, the COVID-19 winter surge was well under way and terrifyingly broad . Since the beginning of November, the Northeast, South, and Midwest

Discovery of Virus Variant in Colorado and California Alarms Scientists A more contagious version of the coronavirus may alter the course of the pandemic in the United States, researchers said. One co

You’re Infected With the Coronavirus. But How Infected? Knowing the amount of virus carried in the body could help doctors predict the course of a patient’s illness. A patient in the emergency room of

Credit... Emily Rose Bennett for The New York Times He Was Hospitalized for Covid-19. Then Hospitalized Again. And Again. Significant numbers of coronavirus patients experience long-term symptoms that

Published 30 December 2020 Share page About sharing Related Topics Coronavirus Image source, Getty Images Image caption, Health officials in Denver, Colorado, are trying to trace the infected person's

Getty Images / WIRED In 1995, Katalin Karikó was at her lowest ebb. A biochemist at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), Karikó had dedicated much of the previous two decades to finding a way to tu

The influenza pandemic that began in 1918 killed as many as 100 million people over two years. It was one of the deadliest disasters in history, and the one all subsequent pandemics are now compared w