India is on alert as covid-19 cases hit a five-month high

India recorded 1,300 new covid-19 cases today, the highest in nearly five months. The total number…

What happens when the covid emergency declaration ends?

The national covid emergency — which was first declared on Mar 13, 2020 and has also…

Hong Kong is lifting more covid restrictions

Hong Kong is scrapping its five-day isolation rule for people who test positive for covid-19. On…

China’s covid cases loom over upcoming WHO meeting on state of the pandemic

Is the covid pandemic over? The World Health Organization (WHO) is set to consider that question…

The US economy’s recovery from covid helped boost remittances to India

The US emerged as the top source of remittances to India in 2020-21, thanks to its…

Covid-related global traveling restrictions remain to subside

Anguilla, a little British overseas region in the eastern Caribbean Sea, is preparing to reduce its…

Covid was twice as deadly in poor countries as in rich ones

In the early months of the pandemic, there was a perception that high-income countries had bore…

Keep getting ill after recouping from Covid?

If you’ve had Covid-19 previously, you may have noticed that even when the virus had actually…

Covid was the US leading cause of deaths for 45 to 54 year-olds in 2021

Between March 2020 and October 2021, about 700,000 people in the US died of covid, which…

How China beat US pharma giant Gilead in the race to create a covid antiviral pill

Covid is not going away. Covid vaccines are not foolproof. But endless waves of mass outbreaks,…

Just How Some People Travel to the U.S. After Positive Covid Tests

Michelle Fishman calls it the “worst-case scenario that you do not truly think through.” After a…

China is softening its zero-covid approach

Two years into China’s stringent zero-covid strategy, the country is finally refining its approach. But a…