COVID-19
- World
Was Fauci’s commission paper used to debunk Covid lab leak theory?
Washington: A February 2020 science paper that debunked the Covid lab leak theory was commissioned by former White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci, according to the US House Select Subcommittee…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad: Sunshine Hospitals to refund Rs 8.70L to customer for COVID treatment
Hyderabad: A local consumer court on February 22 ordered Sunshine Hospitals, a unit of Sarvejana Healthcare to pay a refund of Rs 8,73,943 for exorbitantly charging a Kulsumpura resident for COVID-19 treatment.…
- World
Scientist behind Russia’s Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine strangled to death with belt
Moscow: Andrey Botikov, one of the scientists who helped to create the Russian COVID-19 vaccine Sputnik V, was strangled to death with a belt at his apartment here and police have arrested…
- World
Omicron subvariant XBB.1.5 accounts for nearly 90% new Covid cases in US
Washington: The highly transmissible Omicron subvariant XBB.1.5 now accounts for nearly 90 per cent of all Covid-19 cases reported in the US, according to the latest estimates by the Centers for Disease…
- World
Visitors can continue applying for work permits inside Canada
Toronto: Foreign nationals who are in Canada as visitors and who receive a valid job offer will be able to apply for and receive a work permit without having to leave the…
- World
About 15.5 mn children in US infected with Covid
Los Angeles: Almost 15.5 million children in the US are reported to have tested positive for Covid-19 since the onset of the pandemic, according to the latest report by the American Academy…
- India
RBI lost 46 employees to Covid, related complications
Mumbai: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Monday said it lost 46 employees to Covid and related complications. The central bank mentioned about the deaths in the compendium on business continuity…
- World
US Energy Dept concludes lab leak caused Covid-19 pandemic
Washington: New intelligence has prompted the Energy Department to conclude that an accidental laboratory leak in China most likely caused the novel coronavirus pandemic, reported The Wall Street Journal (WSJ). The shift…
- India
Gurugram: Woman locks self, son for 3 years in house to escape Covid, rescued
Gurugram: A 33-year-old woman, who had locked herself and her minor son for three years in their rented house in Chakkarpur area here to avoid COVID-19, was brought out of confinement on…
- World
US reports 130,000 child Covid-19 cases in past 4 weeks
Los Angeles: Nearly 130,000 child Covid-19 cases were reported in the US in the past four weeks, according to the latest report by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the Children’s…
- World
Deaths in US prisons up by 50% during 1st Covid year: Report
Washington: US state and federal prisons saw deaths surging nearly 50 percent during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, and in six states they had more than doubled, a media report…
- India
Cancer cases went up after COVID-19, says Ramdev; experts deny connection
Panaji: Yoga guru Ramdev on Saturday claimed that cancer cases increased in the country after the COVID-19 pandemic, but medical experts said there was no correlation between the two and the rise…
- India
India to record highest cashless transactions in the world: Jaishankar at Raisina
Sydney: India is moving ahead to record the largest number of cashless transactions in the world, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Saturday at the Raisina @ Sydney Business Breakfast. “If…
- India
Fund allocation for MGNREGA has not gone down: Sitharaman
Bhubaneswar: The fund allocation for Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme(MGNREGA) has not gone down, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman here on Friday, adding it is a demand driven scheme and as…
- World
China’s Communist Party claims decisive victory over COVID-19
Beijing: China’s ruling Communist Party has claimed to have scored a “decisive victory” over the coronavirus pandemic by minimising the casualties and staunchly defended its much-criticised zero-COVID policy, saying that it has…