The wave of Covid-19 infections engulfing the UK seems to be due largely to a new variant of the coronavirus, which transmits more readily between people. Called B117, it is a mutant form that seems ...

Two Chinese firms on Tuesday announced they had developed a rapid testing kit for the more transmissible variant of COVID-19, initially reported by the UK on December 14, and both said that results ...

'[B]ecause it is more contagious than its cousins, the B117 variant will make pandemic management even more challenging than it already is' Last month, scientists in the United Kingdom reported that a ...