A World Health Organization staff memo has revealed the latest in a series of cost-cutting measures following Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the US from the body. During his first days back ...

LP.8.1, a descendant of Omicron, is driving a growing proportion of COVID infections in Australia and elsewhere.

Israel's Knesset Health Committee held a heated discussion on a proposal for Israel to leave the World Health Organization (WHO), a United Nations agency. The committee will hold another ...

COVID-19 as a whole is still a major national and international health concern. So far this year, there have been close to 45 ...

The latest variant on the rise is LP.8.1. It’s increasing in Australia, making up close to one in five COVID cases in New ...

Alongside this, a new Covid variant is also on the rise and is known as LP.8.1. This strain has already been detected in ...

So far this year, Australia has recorded close to 45,000 new COVID-19 cases, while around 260 people are currently in ...

Experts say LP.8.1’s symptoms align with those of other circulating strains, showing no heightened severity, suggesting it ...

Tuesday marks five years since the World Health Organization (WHO ... By comparison, during the height of the omicron wave in winter 2021-22, the death rate was 53 times higher at 5.3 per 100,000.

LP.8.1 was first detected in July 2024. It’s a descendant of Omicron, specifically of KP.1.1.3, which is descended from JN.1, a subvariant that caused large waves of COVID infections around the world ...