The coronavirus pandemic is likely to last between 18 and 24 months, scientists from the University of Minnesota have predicted. In a report published Thursday, researchers from the university’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) stressed that Covid-19 was more contagious than the flu and was likely to ...

Countries must lift lockdowns gradually, while still being “on the look-out” for COVID-19 and ready to restore restrictions if the virus jumps back, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday. Vulnerable people in institutions, including those in long-term care facilities, prisons and migrant dormitories, must be protected, its top ...

Scientists cast doubt on the Trump-backed theory that the coronavirus escaped from a Chinese lab Why are the origins of the pandemic so controversial? How Covid-19 began has become increasingly contentious, with the US and other allies suggesting China has not been transparent about the origins of the outbreak. Donald ...

The Ministry of Health announced on Friday that 4 new Coronavirus cases were registered in Lebanon. The total number of cases in Lebanon reached 720 cases with no death recorded among Coronavirus patients. This as the ministry noted that 1551 tests were conducted during the past 24 hours for the ...

Minister of Information, Dr. Manal Abdel Samad Najd, congratulated, via her Twitter account, all Lebanese workers on Labor Day, which is celebrated on the first of May of each year. “I salute all laborers on this Day, especially under these difficult circumstances. It is true that thousands of workers have ...

Medical researchers have been studying everything we know about Covid-19. What have they learned – and is it enough to halt the pandemic? Coronaviruses have been causing problems for humanity for a long time. Several versions are known to trigger common colds and more recently two types have set off ...

The Ministry of Public Health confirmed in a statement on Thursday three coronavirus cases among the nationals that were repatriated to Lebanon from a number of countries on Tuesday. The statement indicated that one positive case has been recorded among the passengers aboard the plane that arrived from Congo, and ...

The Ministry of Health said on Thursday that 4 new Coronavirus cases were registered in Lebanon. The new cases bring the total number of infections in Lebanon to 725. In its daily report, the Ministry confirmed that the four coronavirus cases were registered among the nationals that were repatriated to ...

In its daily report on the latest developments of the novel Coronavirus, the Rafic Hariri University Hospital announced on Wednesday that out of 288 laboratory tests conducted today, no new Covid-19 cases have been recorded, as all the tests came out negative. It added that the total number of laboratory-confirmed ...

Adding to growing evidence that the coronavirus can spread through the air, scientists have identified genetic markers of the virus in airborne droplets, many with diameters smaller than one-ten-thousandth of an inch. That had been previously demonstrated in laboratory experiments, but now Chinese scientists studying real-world conditions report that they captured ...