Coronavirus

Johannesburg: Cricket South Africa (CSA) announced Monday an updated schedule of India’s curtailed tour of the country. The CSA said that the first Test will be hosted at Centurion starting December 26. The CSA and the BCCI had announced Saturday that the tour will go...

New Delhi: Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) said Monday it has applied for the registration of 'Sputnik M', Covid-19 vaccine for adolescents aged 12-17 years, to the Indian regulator for approval. The sovereign wealth fund said Russia’s Health Ministry registered 'Sputnik M' November 24, 2021....

Panaji: Five sailors, including two Russians, have been kept in quarantine as suspect Omicron cases, Goa health officials said Monday. Dr Utkarsh Betodkar, an epidimiologist with the state Directorate of Health Services, said that the five Omicron suspects had tested positive for Covid, after they...

Patna: Can fiction be stronger than the truth? Well if the vaccination list in Bihar’s Arwal district is examined, fiction does emerge stronger than truth. The names of vaccinated people found in the list include Narendra Modi, Amit Shah, Sonia Gandhi, Priyanka Chopra and Akshay...

New Delhi: The Indian Medical Association (IMA) urged Monday the government to announce ‘additional’ doses of Covid-19 vaccine for healthcare, frontline workers and immune-compromised individuals amid concerns over the Omicron variant of coronavirus. So far 21 cases of Omicron have been detected in India. It...

New Delhi: Resident doctors of the Centre-run RML, Safdarjung and Lady Hardinge hospitals boycotted all routine and emergency services from Monday. They are doing so in support of a nationwide protest called by the Federation of Resident Doctors' Association (FORDA) against the delay in NEET-PG...

Johannesburg: Patients hospitalised with Omicron in South Africa show less dependence on oxygen, early recovery, according to a new report. The report, which analysed symptoms and severity of patients with Omicron from Tshwane -- an epicentre of the outbreak -- also showed a marked difference...

Wellington: New Zealand has secured supplies of another medicine to treat Covid-19, Health Minister Andrew Little said Monday. In October, New Zealand was one of the first countries in the world to make an advance purchase of a promising new antiviral drug, molnupiravir, Xinhua news...

New Delhi: The number of people suspected to have been infected with the Omicron Covid variant in Delhi has increased to 27, of which 17 of them have tested positive for the virus, Health Minister Satyendar Jain said Monday. "A total of 27 Omicron suspects...

London: While the Covid-19 crisis is not over yet with the new super mutant Omicron spreading to 38 countries, the next pandemic could be even more lethal, said the creator of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine Professor Sarah Gilbert. Delivering the 44th Richard Dimbleby Lecture, Gilbert cautioned...