Health

Bhubaneswar: A record 69 covid patients under treatment succumbed to coronavirus in Odisha in the past 24 hours taking the total fatalities in the state to 5241.On July 12 last Odisha reported the highest number of 68 deaths.During the...

Lucknow: With fresh Covid-19 cases in Uttar Pradesh coming down to 56 on Sunday and 69 patients discharged after recovering, now a total of districts have been declared free from Corona in the state.The positivity rate stood at 0.02%...

Moscow: The UK government has allocated nearly 20 million pounds ($27.5 million) to launch 15 new research programs to study the so-called long COVID — a condition wherein people suffer COVID-19 symptoms, such as fatigue and neurological disorders, for...

Sao Paulo, Jul 18 (UNI/Xinhua) Brazil registered 868 more COVID-19 deaths in the past 24 hours, raising its national death toll to 541,266, the health ministry said Saturday.As many as 34,339 new cases were detected, taking the total caseload...

Bhubaneswar: The Covid death toll in Odisha Sunday crossed the 5000 mark to reach 5058 with 66 patients under treatment succumbing to the virus in the past 24 hours.At the same time, 2215 new Covid positive cases were reported...

Hamirpur (HP): In the vaccine efficacy report from Public Health England, two doses of the AstraZeneca (Covishield) vaccine are estimated to provide 94 per cent protection against death from COVID-19 in people aged 65 and above.Stating this Sunday, a...

London:  British Health Secretary Sajid Javid said on Saturday he had tested positive for Covid-19 and was self-isolating -- just as his government prepared to jettison most pandemic restrictions in England.Under his government's rules, Javid is now required to...

Thiruvananthapuram: Covid-19 was newly detected in 16,148 persons in Kerala on Saturday while 13,197 patients have recovered from the disease, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said.Addressing a press conference here this evening, the CM said "1,50,108 samples were tested during...

Beijing: Chinese company Sinopharm's COVID-19 vaccine was approved for emergency use in children over the age of 3 in China, a subsidiary of the pharmaceutical giant said in a statement on Saturday."The inactivated COVID-19 vaccine, developed by the Beijing...

Washington: A rare case of a person infected with the monkeypox virus has been detected in the US state of Texas, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in a press release."The Centers for Disease Control and...