Covid-19 could be causing lung abnormalities still detectable more than three months after patients are infected, researchers suggest.
A surgeon in Saudi Arabia has died in a hospital operating room where he was set to perform an orthopaedic procedure, according to Saudi media.
Today marks six months since the coronavirus was labelled a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO).
The UK could see about 120,000 new coronavirus deaths in a second wave of infections this winter, scientists say.
Scientists in China have identified a new strain of flu that has the potential to become a pandemic.
Japan has approved the use of antiviral drug Remdesivir as a treatment for Covid-19, a week after the US allowed the emergency use of the same drug.
Preliminary results from government lab experiments show that the coronavirus does not survive long in high temperatures and high humidity, and is quickly destroyed by sunlight, providing evidence from controlled tests of what scientists believed — but had not yet proved — to be true.
U.S. health officials are planning ways for the country to return to normal activities if distancing and other steps to mitigate COVID-19 this month prove successful in curbing the outbreak, the top U.S. infectious disease official said on Wednesday.
EXCLUSIVE - As the coronavirus body count continues to rise around the world, one country that is remarkably bereft of any official deaths: the former Soviet country of Georgia.
There is much debate about the credibility of a recent tweet by entrepreneur Elon Musk suggesting children are "essentially immune" to the coronavirus. So far, the narrative has been that while the coronavirus may cause severe, or even fatal, disease in the elderly, the outcomes for children are reassuring.
Russia's unmanned Luna-25 spacecraft has crashed into the Moon after spinning out of control, officials say.
Donald Trump has confirmed that he will not take part in Republican presidential debates with his rivals in the race for the White House.