Coronavirus

Beijing: China has said it is now treating more than 1,000 people for COVID-19 as numbers of cases continue to surge in the country’s north. The National Health Commission said Friday 1,001 new COVID-19 cases have been detected and the patients are under care for...

  US executes Virginia gang killer despite COVID-19 infection Terre Haute (US): The US government executed a drug trafficker Thursday in spite of convicted man suffering from COVID-19. Corey Johnson, 52, was the 12th inmate put to death Thursday at the federal prison complex in...

New Delhi: India's COVID-19 caseload rose to 1,05,27,683 with 15,590 people testing positive for the infection in a day, while the recoveries have surged to 1,01,62,738, according to the Union health Ministry data updated Friday. The country's death toll increased to 1,51,918 with 191 daily new fatalities, the data updated...

Addis Ababa: The Africa Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has revealed that five countries account for about 69 per cent of confirmed coronavirus cases in the continent amid an uneven impact of the pandemic. The five highly affected countries are South Africa...

Wuhan (China):  The WHO team of international researchers that arrived in the central Chinese city of Wuhan Thursday hopes to find clues to the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic. The visit has been shrouded in secrecy, with neither China nor the WHO revealing exactly what...

New Delhi: Depression, stress and loneliness can weaken the body's immune system, and lower the effectiveness of certain vaccines, including the new COVID-19 preventives that are in development and the early stages of global distribution, scientists say. According to a report accepted for publication in...

New Delhi: Depression, stress and loneliness can weaken the body’s immune system. In the process these symptoms can lower the effectiveness of certain vaccines, including the new COVID-19 vaccines, according to scientists. According to a report accepted for publication in the journal ‘Perspectives on Psychological...

Thiruvananthapuram: With three more UK returnees to Kerala testing positive for the new variant of COVID-19, nine persons have so far been infected with the strain in the state, Health Minister KK Shailaja said Thursday. Two of three UK returnees are from Kannur district and...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch India’s COVID-19 vaccination drive January 16 via video conferencing. Adequate doses of the two made-in-India COVID-19 vaccines have been delivered India. All the states and Union Territories have received the COVID-19 vaccines, the government said Thursday. This...

Beijing/Wuhan: Thirteen international experts of the World Health Organisation (WHO) arrived Thursday in Wuhan. They will be launching the long-awaited probe into the origins of the deadly coronavirus pandemic. Two other experts did not board the flight from Singapore to the central Chinese city after...