It's been five years since COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic. As SARS-CoV-2 shifts to endemic status, questions about ...

Kei Sato was looking for his next big challenge five years ago when it smacked him — and the world — in the face. The ...

HCoV-HKU1, which spreads through respiratory droplets, is less severe than SARS or COVID-19. Experts suggested preventive ...

Back in 2021, at the height of the pandemic, scientists at Pfizer revealed the development of a novel antiviral molecule, ...

He found an answer in SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic ... including its evolution and its interactions with human hosts. Here are four lessons from the pandemic that some ...

Early in the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists predicted the SARS-CoV-2 virus would mutate slowly. They were wrong. Hundreds of thousands of viral mutations and multiple seasonal waves ...

Five young volunteers here have been deliberately exposed to the Covid-19 virus in the country’s first human challenge study, ...

Health officials in Britain have published a list of the disease-causing viruses they believe pose the greatest risk to humans for the first time.

HCoV-HKU1, a not-so-common human coronavirus, surfacing in Kolkata has raised concern. Dr Shalmali Inamdar, an internal ...

When the COVID-19 pandemic first began, we saw how quickly the SARS-CoV-2 virus evolved. New variants emerged with mutations that increased transmissibility or helped the virus evade our immune ...

Betacoronavirus hongkonense, commonly known as human coronavirus HKU1 (HCoV-HKU1), is a species of coronavirus that affects ...