Scientists and researchers are learning more about COVID-19 every day, to help keep us safe. In a simple video, we break down how COVID-19 is transmitted and how best to protect yourself and others.

For many of us, the pandemic has created higher levels of anxiety, stress and other mental health concerns. Look after yourselves, and each other.

We speak to an expert in malaria about the differences between the two diseases.

Viruses are constantly mutating, and that is how they evolve and adapt to survive. Viral mutations arise due to the error-prone system they use for copying and propagating their genome. Mutating agents present in the immediate environment can also influence the virus to change.

We speak to an expert in malaria about the differences between the two diseases.

The researchers tried to understand the trends in terms of the nature, frequency, and distribution of viral mutations across 71703 viral sequences reported from countries around the world and compared them with the genetic sequence of the earliest SARS-CoV‑2 strain reported from Wuhan, China.