British scientists analyzing data from a widely-used COVID-19 symptom-tracking app find there are six distinct types of the disease.

Twenty-two percent of the world population is at the risk of severe COVID-19 disease, a new study finds.

The research may explain why early outbreaks in some parts of the world did not end up overwhelming health systems.

China denies a study that it waited a couple of months before revealing that it hosted the new coronavirus.

Lockdowns may have averted more than three million deaths, researchers say.

The United States may need to endure social distancing measures adopted during the coronavirus outbreak until 2022, according to researchers at Harvard University.

Three distinct strains of COVID-19 are identified by Dr. Peter Forster, a geneticist at the University of Cambridge, and his team after they traced the origins of the pandemic by analyzing 160 genomes from human patients.

An African Union (AU) study says about 20 million jobs are at risk in Africa due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.

The highly contagious new coronavirus that has exploded into a global pandemic can remain viable and infectious in droplets in the air for hours and on surfaces up to days, according to a new study.

Extreme hot spells made increasingly likely by climate change could overload urban power grids and cause roving blackouts, study shows.