Virus lockdown end in sight for Australias second-largest city
Australia’s second-largest city will exit its coronavirus lockdown in late October if vaccine targets are met under an official roadmap …
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Virus lockdown extended for Australia’s capital
Australian authorities on Tuesday extended a coronavirus lockdown of the nation’s capital Canberra to mid-October, saying the measure was necessary …
Tokyo sets another virus record days after Olympics begin
Tokyo reported 3,177 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday, setting an all-time high and exceeding 3,000 for the first time days …
Virus fears haunt Spains transplant patients despite vaccines
Wearing a face mask and social distancing were a part of Magdalena Moskal’s life long before the coronavirus pandemic hit. …
A Sensitive Pseudovirus Assay for Screening SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies
The safety and versatility of pseudoviruses as virological tools have supported their use in assessing the efficacy and safety of …
All-in-one test provides a promising solution for COVID-19 detection and mutational surveillance
A new type of COVID-19 testing strategy could help streamline the process of identifying cases, tracking variants and detecting co-infecting …
Humoral immunity developed by DNA vaccine INO-4800 is effective against SARS-CoV-2 variants
A team of international scientists recently demonstrated that antibodies generated in response to the DNA vaccine INO-4800 can effectively neutralize …
Can limiting the priming dose of a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine improve immunity?
Several vaccines have been developed, approved and rolled out to prevent coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory …
Researchers offer large-scale screening of potential broad-spectrum SARS-CoV-2 antivirals
The search for effective and safe antivirals against the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pathogen responsible for the …
Combined clinical and genomic data better predicts COVID-19 severity
The current COVID-19 outbreak is one of the worst pandemics in history and has claimed millions of lives across the …
New virus variant detected in India; experts urge caution
A new and potentially troublesome variant of the coronavirus has been detected in India, as have variants first detected in …
Sombre UK marks one year since first virus lockdown
Britain on Tuesday marked the anniversary of its first coronavirus lockdown with a minute’s silence in tribute to the more …
New Colombian SARS-CoV-2 lineage shares antibody-resistant mutations with other variants
Scientists in Colombia have identified a new highly divergent SARS-CoV-2 lineage with Spike substitutions L249S and E484K. These same mutations …
Salivary IgG to SARS-CoV-2 after mild COVID-19
A team of researchers based in Stockholm, Sweden, has demonstrated that individuals exposed to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 …
New software provides detailed picture of diversity of COVID-19 virus variants
“B.1.1.7.” “B.1.351.” Before the COVID-19 pandemic, these were just a series of arbitrary letters and numbers. Now, we understand these …
Provincial Italian hospital overrun by virus variant
The 160-bed hospital in the Po River Valley town of Chiari has no more room for patients stricken with the …
Novel bioinformatics tool could help improve COVID-19 diagnosis
Improved diagnostics are important in containing the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic as well as understanding the biology of …
SARS-CoV-2 escapes host immune responses by modulating dendritic cell maturation
A team of scientists from Italy and the USA has recently explored the maturation pattern of conventional dendritic cells (cDCs) …