The first case of the Lambda variant of the novel coronavirus confirmed in Japan was brought by a woman arriving from Peru for the Tokyo Olympics, government sources said.

A team of Japanese researchers identified a protein that can foretell severe COVID-19 cases, potentially making it possible to determine the severity of a patient's symptoms. Scientists from Chiba ...

A possible first case of COVID recurrence after ensitrelvir: a vaccinated woman whose antigen levels fall and then rebound, with symptoms returning 1 day after treatment.

I first visited Japan in 2020, just before the COVID-19 pandemic began. One evening in Odaiba, I rode the Ferris wheel at Palette Town. (It was taken ...

Fukuoka Airport, Japan's fourth busiest, was the third to be privatised (in 2019) in a process that began in 2013 - but which ...

As concerns grow over a hantavirus outbreak traced back to an Antarctic cruise, Britain has taken swift action by securing ...

The FDA’s outside vaccine advisers plan to convene Thursday to recommend which Covid-19 strain vaccine manufacturers should target for the 2026-2027 season’s products, all while the country’s vaccine ...

Japan Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga was still uncertain whether fans can be allowed at the Tokyo Olympics because of growing concern about rising COVID-19 cases on Thursday only three weeks before the ...

The recent coverage of a cruise ship hit with a deadly hantavirus outbreak is painfully familiar to cruisers who spent days and weeks trapped in their cabins at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2 ...

Vaccine makers Moderna and Sanofi discussed data on mice research suggesting that vaccines targeting XFG trigger higher antibody concentrations against circulating SARS-CoV-2 strains than Pfizer’s and ...

Ensitrelvir, an oral SARS-CoV-2 3C-like protease inhibitor, reduced symptomatic RT-PCR-confirmed COVID-19 among household ...

TOKYO—Japanese officials sounded the alarm on Thursday after Tokyo reported record-breaking coronavirus cases for two straight days with the Olympics well underway. “We have never experienced the ...