Health

London: Britain's Queen Elizabeth II has tested positive for Covid-19, Buckingham Palace confirmed on Sunday.The queen is experiencing mild cold-like symptoms but expects to continue light duties at Windsor over the coming week, the palace said."She will...

Beijing: The Chinese mainland on Friday reported 80 locally transmitted COVID-19 cases, the National Health Commission said on Saturday.Of the new local infections, 46 were reported in Inner Mongolia, 19 in Jiangsu, eight in Liaoning, three each in...

Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia reported 26,701 new COVID-19 infections as of midnight Thursday, bringing the national total to 3,138,215, according to the health ministry.There are 132 new imported cases, with 26,569 being local transmissions, data released on the ministry's...

New Delhi: The Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) has approved the single-dose Sputnik Light in the country on Sunday making it the ninth anti-Covid shot added to the bouquet of Covid-19 vaccines in India.Sharing the information on...

New York: The United States reached the grim milestone of 900,000 coronavirus deaths on Friday, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.With the national case count topping 76.2 million, the death toll across the United States rose to...

Kualal Lumpur: Malaysia on Friday recorded 5,439 new Covid-19 infections for the past 24 hours, bringing the total tally to 2,850,408, according to the health ministry.The newly reported infections included 332 imported cases and 5,107 local transmissions, showed...

Wellington: New Zealand has reported 105 new Covid-19 cases in the community on Friday, including 15 infections with the Omicron variant of the virus, taking its current community outbreak tally to 11,713, according to the Ministry of Health.Among...

Washington: The number of Covid related deaths in the US now stands as high as it was did during the peak of the Delta variant, a figure that experts believe is likely to rise.Statistics have shown that on an...

Moscow: Russia has confirmed a record 57,212 new cases of Covid-1, taking the cumulative total to 11,044,986, the Federal Response Center said on Saturday.The previous record of 49,513 new cases was recorded on Friday.Moscow logged the highest tally of...

Aurangabad / Mumbai: Maharashtra on Wednesday reported 43,697 new Covid-19 patients and 49 fatalities in a single day, taking the state's cumulative case tally to 73,25,825 and the toll to 1,41,934, respectively, a health bulletin of the state government...