The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced on Friday (March 1) that Americans who test positive for Covid would no longer need to stay in isolation for five days.

Americans who test Covid positive don't need to isolate for five days anymore: US CDC

Cases of Covid are rising in many countries including the United States and India. Last week, the World Health Organization (WHO) urged countries in the Southeast Asia region to strengthen surveillance and for people to take protective measures given the increasing numbers of cases of respiratory diseases including due to Covid.

Covid: India's active cases over 4,400; mask mandates return at some US hospitals

New York Mayor Eric Adams on Monday announced that he will be lifting the controversial COVID-19 vaccine mandate for municipal workers and the city's Department of Education employees.

US: New York Mayor Eric Adams to end Covid vaccine mandate for city workers

The holiday season and the evolution of new sub-variants of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 have once again led to a surge in cases in the US. Hospital admissions are up and currently at the fourth-highest rate of the pandemic, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

No masks, few takers for boosters: Current COVID-19 surge in the US has experts worried

Over 40 per cent Covid cases in the United States in the week of December 31 were of Omicron subvariant XBB.1.5, according to Epidemiologist Dr Eric Feigl-Ding, who cited data from the US Centers for Disease Control (US CDC) to lay the claim.

Covid in USA: Omicron subvariant XBB.1.5 accounts for over 40 per cent cases

Responding to US President Joe Biden's remark that "the pandemic is over", an official at the European Union's drugs regulator said on Tuesday that the COVID-19 pandemic is still ongoing.

EU official contradicts US President Joe Biden, says pandemic is not over yet

The World Health Organisation recently released its weekly assessment of the pandemic released on Wednesday (August 3), according to which the new coronavirus cases fell by 9 per cent globally last week but the deaths remained steady.

COVID-19: WHO’s recent report states new cases fell by 9% globally, deaths remain steady

Nearly 1 in 5 American adults who reported having COVID-19 in the past are still having symptoms of long Covid, according to survey data collected in the first two weeks of June, US health officials said on Wednesday.

Nearly 1 in 5 adults who had Covid have lingering symptoms: US study

Almost every inmate held at the Alaska's largest prison has contracted the coronavirus since the pandemic hit the facility in November this year. New data from the Alaska Department of Corrections (DOC) shows that Out of 1,236 total inmates at Goose Creek Correctional Center (GCCC), 1,115 have tested positive for COVID-19, the US media reported.

US: Nearly every inmate at Alaska's biggest prison has contracted coronavirus

Deadly coronavirus could have been in the US as early as December 2019, according to a new government study. Also read | United States Covid-19 hospitalisations top 100,000, hospitals stretched beyond limit As per the research by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the American Red Cross, the coronavirus was present in the country weeks earlier than scientists and health officials had previously thought and had been infecting people in the US even before China reported its first cases on December 31, 2019.

Coronavirus could have broken out in US before being officially confirmed in China

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