COVID-19
- World
Russia reports 7,096 new Covid-19 cases
Moscow, Dec 12 (IANS) Russia has registered 7,096 new Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the nationwide tally to 21,665,152, the official monitoring and response center said. The nationwide death…
- World
Huge human toll is feared as zero-Covid controls dismantled in China
London: Beijing’s abrupt dismantling of zero-Covid controls has been welcomed by economists, even as the country braces itself for the human impact of letting the disease spread through a vulnerable population, media…
- India
Festering wounds of CAA protests keep citizenship issue alive in Assam
Guwahati: Widespread protests in Assam after the enactment of CAA on this day three years ago have left behind a festering wound that has kept the citizenship issue alive in the northeastern…
- Health
Vax efficacy waning as more vaccinated people now die from COVID-19
New Delhi: The Covid virus has changed and immunity from previous COVID-19 vaccination has waned, putting the health of even the double-vaccinated people at great risk. There are several factors, including waning…
- Hyderabad
Controversies continue to dog India’s 1st indigenous COVID-19 vax
Hyderabad: Covaxin, India’s first indigenous vaccine for Covid-19, was recently hit by a row with allegations that external pressure to deliver the jab quickly forced vaccine-maker Bharat Biotech to skin certain processes…
- Hyderabad
Bharat Biotech urges Centre to include its intranasal COVID vaccine in CoWIN portal
Hyderabad: Bharat Biotech has requested the central government to include its intranasal COVID-19 vaccine iNCOVACC, in CoWIN portal to enable the recipients of the jab to get vaccination certificate. The company sources…
- World
Indian-origin prof was ‘blacklisted’ on Twitter for Covid info: Report
New York: Jay Bhattacharya, an Indian-origin Stanford University professor, who had said that Covid lockdowns would harm children, was placed on a “Trends Blacklist”, internal Twitter documents have revealed The second installment…
- India
India stunned world with its management of COVID pandemic: Adityanath
Gorakhpur: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday said that the world is surprised by India’s rapid pace of progress despite COVID. The CM, who was addressing the closing ceremony of…
- Offbeat
Nupur Sharma, IPL, Agnipath scheme dominated India’s Google search 2022
Social networking service Google has released its annual “Year in Search 2022” report that displays the most searched words that created a buzz on the platform. The list is different for different countries.…
- World
500,000 Australians infected with Covid, predicts expert
Canberra: A leading infectious diseases expert on Wednesday predicted that up to 500,000 Australians are currently infected with Covid-19. Peter Collignon, an infectious diseases physician and microbiologist from Australian National University (ANU)…
- India
Three years after SC order, construction yet to begin on Ayodhya’s new mosque
Ayodhya: Barbed-wire fencing and a board put up by the Indo-Islamic Cultural Foundation are the only indicators that a large mosque complex is set to come up at this spot in Dhannipur…
- World
Covid-19 hospitalisations rise again in US
Los Angeles: The daily average of Covid-19 hospitalisations rose again in the US amid winter surge, according to the latest data of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The…
- India
Changing trend in gold smuggling from Middle East to Myanmar: DRI report
New Delhi: The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has revealed that now mostly gold coming from Myanmar is being smuggled into India, and this has started after Covid-19. Earlier, a gold smuggler…
- World
Symptoms of long Covid in children may change over time: Lancet study
London: Symptoms of long Covid experienced by children and young people may change over time, according to the largest study of its kind published in The Lancet Regional Health – Europe. Researchers…
- World
Fears of deadly infection surge as China abandons zero-Covid policy
London: In the face of the most widespread national protests since the bloody crackdown on Tiananmen Square demonstrators in 1989, the Chinese government has abruptly abandoned its flagship zero-Covid policy, according to…
