Health

Seoul: South Korea reported 4,325 more cases of Covid-19 as of midnight Sunday compared to 24 hours ago, raising the total number of infections to 477,358.The daily caseload was down from 5,127 in the previous day due to fewer...

Jaipur: Nine members of a family in this city on Sunday were found to be infected with the new corona variant 'Omicron', the addition of these new cases takes the national Omicron tally to 21.In the report of genome...

Thiruvananthapuram: In a path-breaking genetic study that could significantly reduce the risk of organ rejection and other medical complications, scientists of the Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology (RGCB) here have formulated a method to predict the optimal dose of...

Ahmedabad/Jamnagar: The first case of Omicron variant of Coronavirus was detected in Gujarat on Saturday after a 72-year old man, who had returned to Jamnagar from Zimbabwe, tested positive for the new variant.State health department officials said that the...

Islamabad: Lahore, the capital city of Punjab Province in Pakistan has once again topped as the most polluted city in the world with a hazardous Air Quality Index of 999 on Friday.Pakistan’s second-largest city Lahore has once again topped...

Hyderabad: The National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), confirmed the first two cases of the Omicron variant in Bengaluru on Thursday.NCBS is part of a consortium of national laboratories performing genomic surveillance across four city clusters – Bengaluru, Hyderabad,...

Itanagar: Arunachal Pradesh has recorded a total of 490 HIV positive cases to date, a senior health official said on Thursday.The cases have been detected out of five lakh tests conducted across the state.However, as per the figures...

Hong Kong: Scientists at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have become the first in Asia to succeed in isolating the new Omicron coronavirus variant from clinical samples, the university said."Researchers at the Department of Microbiology at The University...

Aurangabad: Dabur Chyawanprash on Tuesday announced the launch of a mega awareness initiative aimed at securing the health of underprivileged kids across the 18 cities of the country including Aurangabad.The drive was flagged off with a special session...

Lucknow: In a first, the number of persons fully vaccinated against COVID-19 crossed the five-crore mark in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday.Three-quarters of the adults have received at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine while one-third of the eligible...