Two studies in monkeys published on Wednesday offer some of the first scientific evidence that surviving COVID-19 may result in immunity from reinfection, a positive sign that vaccines under development may succeed, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday. Although scientists have assumed that antibodies produced in response to the new coronavirus ...

Apple and Google on Wednesday released long-awaited smartphone technology to automatically notify people if they might have been exposed to the coronavirus. The companies said 22 countries and several U.S. states are already planning to build voluntary phone apps using their software. It relies on Bluetooth wireless technology to detect ...

Seven new Covid-19 cases have been recorded within the last 24 hours in Lebanon, three of which detected among the freshly repatriated citizens, as indicated by the Ministry of Public Health in its daily report on Wednesday NNA

Fifty days of strict lockdowns followed by 30 days where measures are eased could be an effective strategy for reducing Covid-19 deaths while ensuring some level of economic protection, scientists claim. In an EU-backed study published on Wednesday, a cohort of researchers from nine countries simulated how various lockdown strategies ...

A recent study by researchers at the National Institutes of Health has found that particles of the coronavirus released by talking can remain in the air for 8 to 14 minutes, a warning sign that airborne transmission may be even more widespread than previously thought. While it’s been long accepted ...

Responses to coronavirus crisis cause sharpest drop in carbon output since records began   Carbon dioxide emissions have fallen dramatically since lockdowns were imposed around the world due to the coronavirus crisis, research has shown. Daily emissions of the greenhouse gas plunged 17% by early April compared with 2019 levels, ...

In its daily report on the latest developments of the novel Coronavirus, the Rafic Hariri University Hospital announced on Saturday that out of 341 laboratory tests conducted today, one new Covid-19 case has been recorded, while the remaining tests came out negative. It added that the total number of laboratory-confirmed ...

President Michel Aoun stressed on Tuesday the importance of the cooperation between security apparatuses, municipalities and civil society in fighting Coronavirus. Aoun’s comments were made during a meeting for the Higher Defense Council whereby Prime Minister Hassan Diab said that the available data suggest that the virus is still spreading ...

Minister of Information, Manal Abdel Samad, confirmed in the wake of the Cabinet session that “the number of people infected with coronavirus is on the rise, and citizens must adhere to wearing masks. We have not yet taken any decision as to reopening stadiums and gyms due to the seriousness ...

The Ministry of Public Health announced this Tuesday 23 new coronavirus infections,  8 of them locally detected and 15 others among returnees, thus taking the toll to 954 cases. NNA