Coronavirus

Washington: Over 4,000 flights were cancelled around the world Sunday. Among the flights cancelled worldwide, more than half of them were in the US. It added to the toll of holiday week travel disruptions due to adverse weather and the surge in coronavirus cases caused...

Moscow: Vaccine and vaccination have topped the list of the most popular words used on social media this year, media reports said. According to the Medialogia information and analytical system, vaccine or vaccination were used 63.72 million times in 2021, TASS news agency reported. Medialogia...

London: While the Omicron variant is considered to be "mild", the new symptoms include nausea and loss of appetite, according to a Zoe Covid app study. According to the UK's NHS, the symptoms of coronavirus generally include "a high temperature, a new, continuous cough, or...

London: Although the Omicron variant of Covid has been shown to evade vaccines, two new studies led by the UK health agency showed that a third booster dose increases vaccines' effectiveness by 88 per cent. The studies, led by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA),...

Paris: Seven-time Ballon d'Or winner Lionel Messi and three other Paris St Germain (PSG) players have tested positive for COVID-19, the French Ligue 1 club said Sunday. In a statement Saturday night, PSG had said that four players and one staff member had tested COVID-19...

New Delhi: The notion that Omicron is a natural vaccine is a "dangerous idea" spread by irresponsible people who don't take into account "long COVID" about which very little is understood, experts have said. The Omicron variant of COVID-19, which is said to be much...

Sydney: Australian pace legend Glenn McGrath has tested positive for COVID-19 days before the Pink Test which is played in memory of his late wife Jane, who died of breast cancer, and is used as a fundraiser to support patients suffering from the dreaded disease....

New Delhi: A total of 1,525 cases of Omicron variant of coronavirus have been detected across 23 states and Union Territories so far, out of which 560 have recovered or migrated, according to the Union Health Ministry's data updated Sunday. Maharashtra recorded a maximum of...

Washington: The global coronavirus caseload has topped 28.92 crore, while the deaths have surged to more than 54.4 lakh and vaccinations to over 9.16 billion, according to Johns Hopkins University. In its latest update on Sunday morning, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering...

New Delhi: In the second tranche of humanitarian aid to Afghanistan after it fell to the Taliban, India Saturday supplied 5,00,000 doses of the Covaxin vaccine to the war-torn country and announced that an equal number of jabs would be sent in the coming weeks....