COVID-19
- Telangana
Telangana sees further decline in COVID-19 cases
Hyderabad: Telangana continued to witness a dip in daily COVID-19 cases with only 50 new infections being reported on Sunday taking the total number of people affected by the disease in the…
- India
First Covid and now Ukraine, global markets reel under blow after blow
New Delhi: The only positive consequence of a continuing conflict in Ukraine from a market standpoint is that the longer it goes the more likely it is to temper the recently conceived…
- World
China logs 1,807 COVID-19 cases in past 24 hours
Beijing: China on Saturday reported 1,807 new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases, the National Health Commission said on Sunday. Of these infections, 1,412 were reported in Jilin, 175 in Shandong, 62 in Guangdong,…
- Health
Long COVID-induced diabetes, depression can be treated by exercise: Research
Washington: Though no medically recognized treatment exists for Long COVID, a new study suggests that exercise might break the vicious cycle of inflammation that can lead to developing diabetes and depression months…
- Andhra Pradesh
AP reports one coronavirus death after 10 days
Amaravati: Andhra Pradesh reported a COVID-19 death on Saturday, the first after a gap of 10 days. The death was reported from Vizianagaram district, which reported a virus-related fatality after several months.…
- India
Do employees still prefer to work from home?
New Delhi: After the outbreak of the COVID pandemic, work from home had become new normal. Most of the employees still want to continue with it. A study conducted by Ivanti, the…
- India
India logs 3,614 new COVID cases, deaths below 100
New Delhi: India recorded 3,614 fresh COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours with a positivity rate of 0.44 per cent, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare informed on Saturday. With…
- World
China locks down city amid worst COVID outbreak in two years
Beijing: China on Friday ordered a lockdown of the 9 million residents of the northeastern city of Changchun amid a new spike in COVID-19 cases in the area attributed to the highly…
- Andhra Pradesh
Andhra Pradesh: No Covid-19 deaths in 10 days
Amaravati: Andhra Pradesh reported 46 fresh cases of Covid-19 and 134 recoveries in 24 hours ending 9 AM on Friday. For the 10th day in a row, the state did not report…
- India
India’s Covid deaths 8 times higher than reported: Lancet study
London/New Delhi: India’s estimated cumulative excess deaths due to COVID-19 between January 2020 and December 2021 were the highest in the world at 4.07 million, around eight times higher than reported, according…
- Middle East
Saudi Arabia scraps immunization check at two holy mosques
Riyadh: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Hajj and Umrah has scrapped the immunization status check for people entering the Grand Mosque in Makkah and the Prophet’s Mosque in Madinah, starting…
- India
Active COVID-19 cases in country dip to 42,219
New Delhi: India logged 4,194 new coronavirus infections, taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 4,29,84,261, while the active cases dipped to 42,219, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated…
- World
COVID-19 pandemic ‘far from over’: WHO
Geneva: The last two years of Covid-19 infection has seen more than 500 million cases and over six million deaths globally, yet the pandemic is “far from over”, warned the World Health…
- Middle East
Israel sees 41.3% rise in foreign tourist arrivals in Jan-Feb
Tel Aviv: The number of foreign tourists arriving in Israel during the first two months of 2022 has jumped by 41.3 per cent compared with the last two months of 2021, according…
- Hyderabad
Biological E seeks emergency approval for COVID vaccine for children
New Delhi: Hyderabad-based pharmaceutical company Biological E has applied for Emergency Use Authorisation (EUA) for its COVID-19 vaccine Corbevax for the 5-12 year age group, official sources said on Wednesday. The data…