Pandemics

The WHO says rich nations prolong the pandemic by accumulating Covid treatments and vaccines

Covid will mutate like the flu and is likely to stay

WHO says delta remains “most worrying”

India struggling to contain Nipah, a more deadly virus than COVID-19

The virus strikes French Polynesia, straining ties with Paris

The United States enters Labor Day with Covid vaccines, but with a substantially worse outbreak than last year

Dr Scott Gottlieb says the north-east has yet to see “a real delta wave”

Britain sends 4 million doses of Pfizer to Australia in a swap deal

Fauci says he wouldn’t be surprised if the full regimen is three doses

Fauci says the new mu Covid strain is not an immediate threat in the US