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China reports first imported monkeypox case

China reports first imported monkeypox case

China’s southwestern municipality of Chongqing reported one case of the monkeypox virus infection on Friday in one individual who arrived in the country from abroad, marking the country’s first known monkeypox infection. The transmission risk of the case is low as the individual was put in quarantine upon arrival in …

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WHO ‘strongly advises against’ use of two Covid treatments

WHO 'strongly advises against' use of two Covid treatments

Two Covid antibody therapies are no longer recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO), on the basis that Omicron and the variant’s latest offshoots have likely rendered them obsolete. The two therapies – which are designed to work by binding to the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 to neutralize the virus’ …

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