Health

Beijing: The government of the Chinese city of Xian located in the Shaanxi province on Wednesday announced a lockdown to contain a resurgence in COVID-19 cases, the city administration stated on its official Weibo page.Starting from December 23, citizens...

Itanagar: Arunachal Pradesh registered two fresh Coronavirus cases on Tuesday, taking the state’s tally of confirmed cases to 55,322.Meanwhile, three more COVID-19 patients were cured of the infection during the past 24 hours that upping the total number...

Mumbai: India is better positioned with over 70 per cent of natural infections and excellent Covid vaccination – 88 per cent of the adult population with the first dose and 57 per cent fully vaccinated – that has...

New Delhi: Ten Omicron Covid-19 patients were discharged from the LNJP Hospital here in the last two days, it was announced on Saturday. Currently, 10 patients are being treated in the hospital's special facility for Omicron cases. All of them...

Bengaluru: Five more cases of Omicron have been detected in Karnataka on Thursday, taking the state's tally to 8, according to Karnataka Health Minister Dr K Sudhakar.Out of the five cases detected, three infected persons have returned from the...

Washington: US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Thursday approved the mail-order abortion pills, thereby making a temporary rule permanent which was approved this year during the pandemic, BBC reported on Friday.The decision from the drug regulator will...

New Delhi: India reported 7,447 new COVID-19 cases and 391 related deaths in the last 24 hours, taking the death toll to 4,76,8 69 in the country according to the Union Health Ministry’s data on Friday.Meanwhile, the number of...

Bhubaneswar: The test positivity rate in Odisha on Thursday dropped to 0.26 per cent as out of 64989 tests conducted in the past 24 hours only 173 tested covid positives, taking the cumulative tally in the state to 10,52,318.Health...

Hamirpur (HP): Himachal Pradesh government's HIMCARE health scheme is proving to be a boon for thousands of poor, lower-middle, and middle-class families as they do not have to worry about money even for the treatment of serious diseases,...

New York: A new stage of trials proved the high efficacy of Pfizer's oral antiviral treatment against Covid-19 by reducing risk of hospitalization or death by 89 per cent, the company announced on Tuesday.The company said it analyzed results...