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SARS-CoV-2

June 10, 2025

Australian study reveals how COVID-19 virus continues to evolve

“We’ve made all of our sequencing data freely available so other researchers can dig into it,” said Mr Foster.

COVID-19
April 19, 2025

White House repeats claim COVID-19 leaked from Chinese laboratory

The White House listed five premises suggesting COVID-19 leaked from the Wuhan laboratory.

White house/Wuhan laboratory
March 6, 2024

62-year-old patient received COVID-19 vaccine 217 times: The Lancet

‘‘We learned about his case via newspaper articles.’’

COVID-19 vaccine
September 22, 2022

Chinese scientists design face mask that detects viruses in 10 minutes

The wearable bioelectronic mask can detect common respiratory viruses in the air in droplets or aerosols and then alert the wearers via their mobile devices.

Face mask
February 28, 2022

China releases top 10 scientific advances of 2021

China’s Ministry of Science and Technology issued a list of the top 10 domestic scientific advances of 2021.

February 24, 2022

Hypertension drug found effective for COVID-19 treatment

The conclusion was based on a study to test whether Diltiazem could inhibit the replication of SARS-CoV-2 in cells and in a mouse model.

Chinese researchers
December 2, 2021

Omicron: GlaxoSmithKline announces UK-approved drug for new variant

The pharmaceutical company on Thursday said that further tests will be carried out on the Sotrovimab therapy to firm up the results.

GlaxoSmithKline
October 14, 2021

WHO establishes group to study origin of COVID-19

Made up of 26 scientists from several countries, members were selected from over 700 applications.

WHO logo, COVID-19
June 2, 2021

FLASH: New research suggests dogs can detect Coronavirus carriers

“This work is encouraging and suggests that trained dogs will readily identify people infected with SARS-CoV-2 from lines of uninfected people.”

dogs sniffing humans
March 20, 2021

DATA CHART: COVID-19 has killed over 2,000 Nigerians and still counting

As of Friday, March 19, Nigeria has lost 2,027 people to the cold grip of the dreaded contagion, COVID-19

Abba Kyari, Abiola Ajimobi, and Buruji Kashamu