Coronavirus

London: UK researchers have received a 20 million pound fund to investigate 'long Covid", its causes, and potential treatments, the media reported. The funding from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) will help researchers launch 15 new studies of the condition that will investigate...

New Delhi: India's Covid-19 vaccination coverage has crossed the landmark of 40 crores, including 51,01,567 jabs administered in the last 24 hours. Cumulatively, 40,49,31,715 vaccine doses were administered through 50,46,387 sessions, reveals the provisional report of Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) received till 7...

Washington: The overall global Covid-19 caseload has topped 18.99 crore, while the deaths have surged to more than 40.8 lakh and vaccinations soared to over 3.59 billion, according to Johns Hopkins University. In its latest update on Sunday morning, the University's Center for Systems Science...

New Delhi: India reported 41,157 new cases of Covid-19 and 518 deaths in the last 24 hours, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said Sunday. It is a marginal increase as Saturday India had registered 38,079 new Covid-19 cases. According to the data shared by...

New York: A team of researchers has produced a stem cell model that demonstrates a potential route of entry of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, into the human brain. The findings published in the journal Nature Medicine, indicate that one potential route of SARS-CoV-2 into...

New Delhi: There is no scientific evidence to prove that the impending third wave of coronavirus disease will have a detrimental effect on children, said experts here Friday, asking people to stay away from such misinformation, which has been on the rise since the outbreak...

Washington: US Surgeon General Dr Vivek Murthy has revealed that he lost as many as 10 family members, both here and in India, to the Covid-19 pandemic, making a strong case for Americans to get vaccinated to protect themselves from the deadly virus. Launching a...

New Delhi: The Oxford-AstraZeneca jab gives powerful protection that may last a whole lifetime, a new study has found. Apart from generating virus-busting antibodies, the vaccine also creates "training camps" in the body for search-and-destroy T-cells which can kill even the new variants, The Sun,...

Washington: The World Health Organisation has said it aims to fix several "unintended errors" in its joint report with China on the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic, media reports said. The WHO had, in March, concluded in a report that a laboratory leak was "extremely...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Friday that rising Covid-19 cases in some states remain a matter of concern as he asked them to take proactive measures to rule out a third wave by moving forward with the strategy of test, track, treat and...