COVID-19

Study reveals mouth as primary source of COVID-19 infection

A team of researchers led by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research reveals coronavirus...

The flu, a cold, allergies or COVID-19? How to decipher symptoms

Let’s say you have a runny nose, headache and cough. Are they signs of COVID-19 or just a run-of-the-mill common cold?

High blood pressure and its drug treatment unlikely to increase entry of COVID-19 virus...

Fears that people with high blood pressure are more at risk from severe Covid-19 because it is easier for the virus to enter their cells and tissues have been laid to rest...

‘Mini-lungs’ reveal early stages of SARS-CoV-2 infection

‘Mini-lungs’ grown from tissue donated to Cambridge hospitals has provided a team of scientists from South Korea and the UK with important insights into how COVID-19 damages the lungs.

Turning hotels into emergency shelter as part of COVID-19 response limited spread of coronavirus,...

A King County initiative that moved people out of homeless shelters and into hotel rooms earlier this year helped slow the transmission of coronavirus..

Researchers discovered the second ‘key’ used by the SARS-CoV-2 virus to enter into human...

To efficiently infect human cells, SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is able to use a receptor called Neuropilin-1...

Research to understand COVID-19 spread on public transport

Amajor scientific study has been launched to understand the risks of COVID-19 transmission on buses and trains - and to identify the best measures to control it.

National clinical trial to treat hospitalised patients with COVID-19

A new clinical trial led by the University of Warwick and Queen’s University Belfast seeks to find alternatives to ventilators to treat patients who are critically ill with COVID-19.