Israeli scientists have developed a framework for monitoring, identifying, and predicting the novel coronavirus’s spreading zones in the country. The method, developed jointly with researchers from The Weizmann Institute, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Clalit Health Services – and in coordination with the Israeli Health Ministry – is built on population-wide surveys, data analysis, […]

Researchers at the Migal Institute in northern Israel say they developed an effective vaccine against IBV, a fowl virus, and are now working to adapt it to COVID-19.

As of February 19, over 75,000 people worldwide have been infected, nearly all of them in mainland China, and some 2,012 people have died from the coronavirus.