“That apparently helped spread the virus further.” Sapporo, which is the capital of Hokkaido, and Osaka were removed from the campaign in late November 2020 following a spike in new infection ...

A Japanese court on Wednesday sentenced a man to one year and four months in prison, suspended for four years, for helping his daughter commit murder and behead the victim at a hotel in Sapporo in ...

A Chinese team of virologists has found that this virus carries the risk of animal-to-human transmission. According to the South China Morning Post (SCMP), the new virus called HKU5-CoV-2 was ...

A newly discovered bat coronavirus, HKU5-CoV-2, similar to the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic, has been identified in China. The discovery was made by a team of virologists led by Shi ...

In the early, uncertain days of the coronavirus pandemic, scientists delivered one comforting pronouncement: The virus that caused COVID mutates rather slowly. If that remained true, the virus ...

The virus, HKU5-CoV-2, does not enter human cells as readily as SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19, the scientists reported in the journal Cell. However, they found that the bat virus uses the same ...

Researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China said they discovered a new coronavirus in bats that enters cells using the same gateway as the virus that causes Covid-19. This virus hasn ...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) and other conditions affecting the immune system can activate the John Cunningham (JC) virus, causing a potentially life threatening infection. The JC virus is common ...

The virus known as HKU5-Cov-2 bears eerily similar traits to SARS-CoV-2, which was responsible for sparking the deadly Covid-19 pandemic lasting almost three years. Both viruses bind to the same ...

The Sapporo Dome in Japan proves that anything is possible. The stadium cost £276m to build and was opened in 2001 but became known in 1972 when the Winter Olympics were held there. Its ...