TOKYO -- A drawing that uses the Tokyo Olympic logo and combines it with features of the the COVID-19 virus was being removed on Thursday from the website of the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan.

What scientists got wrong about SARS-CoV-2 evolution : Short Wave Early in the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists predicted the SARS-CoV-2 virus would mutate slowly. They were wrong.

World public health organizations are tracking a newly discovered, highly mutated strain of the virus that causes COVID-19, researchers say. The strain is referred to as BA.2.86.