Coronavirus

Karachi: Senior batsman Muhammad Hafeez has said a lot of Pakistan players contracted coronavirus in New Zealand because they travelled in commercial flights. He pointed out that health safety measures were lax in economy classes of the flights the players travelled in. Muhammad Hafeez said...

New Delhi: Preparations are on in full swing so that the COVID-19 vaccination in India can start from January itself. Under these circumstances sources said that the Oxford COVID-19 vaccine may get the first nod of emergency use authorisation in India. Serum Institute of India...

Warsaw (Poland): European Union nations Sunday officially kicked off a coordinated effort to give COVID-19 vaccinations to adults among their 450 million citizens, marking a moment of hope in the continent's battle against the worst public health crisis in a century. Shots were administered Sunday...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Sunday registered 303 new coronavirus cases, taking the total tally in the state to 3,28,504. Out of the 303 new cases, 172 were reported from quarantine centres while 131 are local contacts. District wise breakdown: https://twitter.com/IPR_Odisha/status/1343064387091763200 The total number of active cases in the...

New Delhi: India's COVID-19 tally of cases climbed to 1,01,87,850 with 18,732 new cases in a day, while 97,61,538 people have recuperated so far pushing the national recovery rate to 95.82 per cent, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated Sunday. The death toll climbed...

Aurangabad: The authorities of the Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) in Aurangabad said they have been observing an increasing trend of elderly persons being abandoned at the facility by their kin after they are brought for treatment. The GMCH-Aurangabad is one of the biggest...

London:  Scientists in the UK have begun trials of innovative antibody-drug treatments that they hope could provide instant protection against COVID-19. The University College London Hospitals NHS Trust (UCLH) said that the researchers in the Storm Chase study believe a Long Acting AntiBody (LAAB) known...

London: As the world grapples with the pandemic amid the origin of newer and potentially lethal strains, BioNTech CEO Ugur Sahin has said that the deadly virus is going to stay with us for the next decade at least. In a virtual press conference this...

Rome: Families that usually reunite on Christmas over a hearty, lingering meal celebrated apart Friday, services shifted online, and gift exchanges were low-key in one of the most unusual and subdued holiday seasons in decades. The coronavirus left almost no one unaffected. Patricia Hager, 60,...

New Delhi: A rising tide of antibiotic-resistant bacteria -- if left unchecked, could kill an estimated 10 million people annually by 2050 -- was a fact known in the pre-Corona era and the Covid-19 situation has now put millions at risk by increasing their resistance...