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The new B.1.1.529 strain may soon be classified a variant of concern by the World Health Organisation. . Read more at straitstimes.com.

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): A new challenge that countries may possibly face in the future is the emergence of a new SARS-CoV-3 virus arising from humans transmitting the coronavirus back to bats.

In theory, vaccines could protect against lots of coronaviruses at once — but a working shot will require both lots of money and regulatory clearance.

Scientists in Singapore have made an important discovery about the shape and structure of the Sars-CoV-2 virus' genetic material - which can help in producing more effective drugs to treat Covid-19.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Scientists from Duke-NUS Medical School and the National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID) found that 2003 SARS survivors who have been vaccinated with the Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA vaccine produced highly potent functional antibodies that are capable of neutralizing not only all known SARS-CoV-2 variants of concerns (VOCs) but also other animal coronaviruses that have the potential to cause human infection.

The study was conducted by scientists from the Duke-NUS medical school and the National Centre for Infectious Diseases.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Boosts hopes for a broad vaccine to combat COVID-19 variants and future coronavirus outbreaks

Findings from a study involving survivors of Sars who received two shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech inoculation have raised hopes of what researchers say is a potential “dream vaccine ” that can counter Covid-19, its variants and future coronaviruses that jump from animals to humans. Scientists from the Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore and the government’s National Centre for Infectious Diseases...

A top virologist in China, at center of a pandemic storm, speaks out The virologist, Shi Zhengli, said in a rare interview that speculation about her lab in Wuhan was baseless. But China’s habitual secrecy makes her claims hard to validate. Shi Zhengli inside a laboratory at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in 2017. Chinatopix via AP, File June 14, 2021 | 6:35 PM Email To a growing chorus of U.S. politicians and scientists, she is the key to whether the world will ever learn i...

Dr Low Zhen Luan was a nurse for four years at Singapore General Hospital, but felt she could do more for her patients.. Read more at straitstimes.com.