Health

Tokyo: Japan fully lifted the COVID-19 state of emergency covering Tokyo and another 18 prefectures, as well as the quasi-state of emergency covering other regions on Friday as scheduled.It is the first time since April 4 that none of...

Kolkata: Prevention is better than cure’ and awareness is the key to prevention.To boost awareness about heart diseases and encourage people to get fitter, India’s fast-evolving microblogging platform Koo and the Metro Group of Hospitals have launched a...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha reported 444 new Covid 19 positive cases including 59 children in the age group of 0 to 18 and five deaths during the last 24 hours.The State Health and Family Welfare department sources said out of...

Ashish SrivastavaNew Delhi: A UK based pharmaceutical firm is planning to launch an intranasal spray in India next month that significantly prevents the COVID-19 infection, the firm said on Thursday.The firm, pHOXBIO Ltd, told UNI that it will approach...

Kozhikode: After a gap of three months, one more person has died of Black Fungus here.Sources identified the deceased as Malappuram-native Ahammed Kutty. He was admitted to Manjeri Medical College hospital with Covid last week and died late...

Chennai: The city-based Kauvery Hospitals has successfullytreated a septuagenarian with skin cancer using radiation therapy.Skin cancers fall into two major categories: melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancers. Non-melanoma skin cancer is of two kinds: Squamous cell carcinoma (cancer that...

Moscow: Russia recorded 19,179 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, down from 19,744 the day before, bringing the cumulative total to 7,313,851, the federal response centre said on Tuesday."Over the past day, 19,179 COVID-19 cases were confirmed...

Beijing: The Chinese mainland on Saturday reported 43 new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases, all in Fujian Province, the National Health Commission said in its daily report on Sunday.Also reported were 23 new imported cases, including nine in Yunnan, three...

Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia reported another 15,549 new COVID-19 infections as of midnight Saturday, bringing the national total to 2,082,876, according to the health ministry.Five of the new cases are imported and 15,544 are local transmissions, data released on the...

Malda: With one more death of a child in suspected flu in the Malda Medical College and Hospital, the toll in the government health facility in the district went up to six in the past four days, even as...