People who test positive for COVID no longer need to isolate for five days, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday. The CDC’s new guidance now matches public health advice for flu and other respiratory illnesses: Stay home when you ...

Israel was the first country to launch COVID-19 boosters, in late July 2021, with strong public health messaging. The booster campaign reversed rising infection rates from the Delta variant and reduced hospitalizations and deaths. The US booster rollout ...

A new COVID-19 variant, RF.5, has been detected in India, with cases reported across eight states and four deaths in Andhra Pradesh, prompting renewed concerns over the virus and the protection offered by vaccines.

PARIS, Feb 10 (Reuters) - Gilles Pialoux, an infectious diseases specialist at the Tenon hospital in Paris, said on Wednesday that the COVID-19 variant first detected in Britain, more contagious, now represents 39% of new cases of the disease detected in ...