COVID-19: Time to watch out for BF.7

For almost a year now, omicron and its lineages and sub-lineages have dominated the global COVID-19 variant map

How do you make a universal flu vaccine? A microbiologist explains

Success of mRNA vaccines for COVID-19 shows promise for their use in achieving the vision of an effective universal influenza vaccine

Infographic: Do we need a booster dose?

Omicron, the most common COVID-19 strain in the world today, has dramatically reduced the efficacy and duration of vaccine protection 

China’s definition of COVID deaths ‘very narrow’, country’s data ‘under-represents’ severity: WHO

Updated definition is narrow since it counts only those deaths caused by COVID-induced pneumonia or respiratory failures

Lifecycle of COVID-19: Yet another omicron sub-variant has countries on high alert

 XBB.1.5 shows how dynamic and wide-reaching SARS-CoV-2 variant evolution is, says expert

A vaccine only for Omicron: Does India really need it?

Experts bat for considering benefits, economics carefully before spending on bivalent shots    

China shifts focus to variant-specific vaccines as it faces an imminent Omicron wave

XBB subvariant has potential to wreak more havoc in China as large number of people immunologically susceptible