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A new study in South Korea has revealed that children between 10 and 19 years can transmit Covid-19 within a household just as much as adults. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention journal Emerging Infectious Diseases published the research, reports Xinhua. Researchers from the South Korea Centers for …

Pharma giants Sanofi and GSK will receive up to $2.1 billion from the US government for the development of a COVID-19 vaccine, the companies said Friday, as the world scrambles for an answer to the pandemic. At the same time, the European Union said it had reached a deal with …

Patients who recover from coronavirus infections may lose their immunity to reinfection within months, according to research released on Monday that experts said could have a “significant” influence on how governments manage the pandemic. In the first study of its kind, a team led by researchers from King’s College London …

The United States on Tuesday signed a $1.95 billion agreement with US pharma giant Pfizer and Germany’s BioNTech for 100 million doses of their experimental COVID-19 vaccine, part of an aggressive push to start immunizing Americans early next year. It is the biggest deal to date under Operation Warp Speed, …

A coronavirus vaccine developed by the University of Oxford appears safe and triggers an immune response. Trials involving 1,077 people showed the injection led to them making antibodies and T-cells that can fight coronavirus. The findings are hugely promising, but it is still too soon to know if this is …

Sleep disturbances, like having a hard time falling asleep or staying asleep, affect millions of people around the world. The daytime sleepiness that follows can leave you feeling lousy and sap your productivity, and it may even harm your health. Now, a small study suggests that mindfulness meditation — a …

There is no adequate evidence of the transmission of COVID-19 from pregnant women infected with the virus to their fetuses, a Chinese medical expert has said. The severity of the illness of pregnant COVID-19 patients is similar to that of other patients and the disease is not more likely to develop …

Apart from damaging lungs, coronavirus also affects kidneys, liver, heart, brain and nervous system, skin and gastrointestinal tract, a medical team of Columbia University Irving Medical Center in New York City said in a new report. The medical team of the center in New York came up with the information …

Officials have long been promoting the use of increased coronavirus testing as a way to better tackle the spread of the virus. And while there may be some issues with accuracy, medical experts agree that testing is one of the best ways to detect and contain a new outbreak before …

Seventy-three countries have warned that they are at risk of stock-outs of antiretroviral (ARV) medicines as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, says a new study on Monday.  Twenty-four countries reported having either a critically low stock of ARVs or disruptions in the supply of these life-saving medicines, according to …