A PHEIC (Public Health Emergency of International Concern) is defined by <a href="https://www.who.int/publications/m/item/annex-2-of-the-international-health-regulations-%282005%29" target="_blank">WHO</a> as "an extraordinary event which is...

Over 4 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered globally, but the virus continues to spread even in countries with very high rates of vaccination such as Israel.

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The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by...

On 2020-01-30, the World Health Organization announced a Public Health Emergency of International Concern regarding the COVID-19 in China. They declared that the outbreak had become a pandemic on 2021-03-11 . The declarations are typically renewed...

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The United States is one of a handful of countries to still prohibit entry of unvaccinated foreign nationals. The vaccine requirement for foreign nationals was imposed by President Biden on October 25, 2021 by presidential proclamation and has no...

As of mid January 2021, more than a thousand people are dying in the UK with COVID-19 every day.

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According to the New York Times, the most cases reported in a single day so far has been 132,797, on November 6.

The beginning of 2020 has seen the emergence of COVID-19 outbreak caused by a novel coronavirus. The majority of the cases were epidemiologically linked to seafood, poultry and live wildlife market (Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market) in Jianghan...

Most scientists now believe that, even with the vaccines, the SARS-CoV-2 virus will continue to circulate throughout the globe for many years to come. The new Delta variant has prompted new alarm and triggered again calls for indoor masking and...

SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing COVID-19, constantly evolves through genetic mutations and recombinations, leading to numerous variants that differ from the original strain.

SARS-CoV-2 variants are categorized based on their genetic mutations and the...

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VDH tracks the number of new COVID-19 cases by date of symptom onset, which it currently updates on...

A new COVID variant is on the rise in the United States, variant KP.2, estimated at 28.2% of sequenced variants for the two-week period ending May 11, 2024, according to the CDC's variant proportions Nowcast (using the "Nowcast"). The KP.2 variant is...

SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines have been widely administered in the US during the COVID-19 pandemic. The two SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines used in the US are the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines. As of June 5, 2022, the US has administered almost 570...