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The World Health Organization (WHO) warns that the coronavirus pandemic will “go on for a year longer than it needs to” because poorer countries are not getting the vaccines they need.

People who have been infected with SARS-CoV-2 can expect to become reinfected within one or two years, unless they take precautions such as getting vaccinated and wearing masks.

Here's what you need to know about the coronavirus right now:

For anyone hoping to see light at the end of the Covid-19 tunnel over the next three to six months, scientists have some bad news: Brace for more of what we’ve already been through.

The mu coronavirus variant has been marked as a "variant of interest" by the World Health Organization and has spread across Chile, Peru and parts of the U.S. and Europe.

Authorities in India are racing to contain an outbreak of the Nipah virus after a young boy was killed by the brain-swelling condition.

State Minister Dr. Sudarshani Fernandopulle has called for the islandwide lockdown currently imposed in Sri Lanka to be extended for an additional two weeks. 

Already exhausted from the rapid spread of the Delta variant which has infected over 60,000 people in recent weeks, Sri Lanka’s health officials have gone on alert over a new COVID-19 variant detected in South Africa and several other countries.

Sri Lanka has moved up to the 13th position in the rankings of the global COVID-19 fatalities that occur daily.

The number of coronavirus positive patients detected in Sri Lanka crossed the 390,000 mark as another 4,304 new Covid-19 cases had been detected across the country yesterday (22).