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FILE PHOTO: People queue outside a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination centre in Cape Town

What Is the Mu Variant?

Paul Griffin 03/09/2021

It was first found in Colombia in January 2021,...

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Faced With the Delta Variant, Remember: Vaccinations, Not Vaccines, Save Lives

Dr Vipin Vashishtha 08/06/2021

Vietnam's health ministry has already announced that it has...

FILE PHOTO: A worker in a protective suit is seen at the closed seafood market in Wuhan

Origins of COVID-19: Who Opened Pandora’s Box at Wuhan – People or Nature?

Nicholas Wade 10/05/2021

Even those who aren't persuaded that lab escape is...

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Coronavirus Variant Identified in Brazil Is More Transmissible, Finds Study

The P.1 coronavirus variant might be able to evade...

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Breakthrough: New Malaria Vaccine Proves Highly Effective

Adrian Hill 29/04/2021

The WHO’s target efficacy for malaria vaccines is over...

People pose with a performance artist at a beach amidst the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Mumbai

Are the New Variants Driving India’s Second COVID-19 Wave?

Dr Vipin Vashishtha 05/04/2021

A mutation that occurs at amino acid residues 319-541...

FILE PHOTO: U.S. Senate hearing on plan to research, manufacture and distribute coronavirus vaccine, on Capitol Hill in Washington

Mutations: Does SARS-CoV-2 Have a Fixed Number of Moves in Its Arsenal?

Kate Kelland and Julie Steenhuysen 05/04/2021

The idea that the virus could have a limited...