The Latest Breaking News from Covid-19

Professor Breda Smyth warned that the public was facing a “respiratory storm” this winter as viral illnesses, including flu and Covid, rapidly increase

The reason some people do not recover their sense of smell after Covid-19 is due to an ongoing immune assault on olfactory nerve cells and an associated decrease in the number of those cells. Read on for details:

China plans to cut quarantine requirements for overseas travellers in January, according to people familiar with the matter, as the country dismantles the last vestiges of its zero-Covid policy.

China could be seeing as many as one million COVID cases a day, according to predictions from analytics firm Airfinity.

Chinese intensive care units are filling up with patients amid a rise in Covid cases across the country, the World Health Organisation has said.

With the surge in Covid cases in China and other countries, Taj Mahal has been put on alert, said Anil Satsangi, District Health Information Officer. Read on for details:

Covid-19 and flu are putting health services under pressure as Ireland heads into Christmas

There’s a trio of viruses spreading in the U.S. — COVID-19, the flu and RSV — and some in the medical world are calling it a “tripledemic.”

Staff have been working tirelessly since December 200 to provide people with the highest possible level of protection

A Shanghai hospital has told its staff to prepare for a "tragic battle" with COVID-19 as it expects half of the city's 25 million people to get infected by the end of the year while the virus sweeps through China largely unchecked. After widespread protests and a relentless rise in…

We are now “back in the eye of a respiratory virus storm”