Coronavirus

Los Angeles: Nearly 26,000 child Covid-19 cases were reported in the US in the week ending January 12, according to the latest report by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the Children's Hospital Association. This is a decrease from the previous week, but likely...

San Francisco: Pregnant women with Covid-19 infection face a seven times increased risk of dying and a significantly elevated risk of being admitted to an intensive care unit or suffering from pneumonia, a new study has shown. According to the study published in BMJ Global...

New Delhi: The Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) has approved market authorisation to COVID-19 vaccine Covovax as a heterologous booster dose for adults who have been administered two doses of Covishield or Covaxin, official sources said Monday. The DCGI's approval came following recommendations by...

New Delhi:  India logged 104 new coronavirus infections, while the active cases declined to 2,149, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated Sunday. The Covid case tally was recorded at 4.46 crore (4,46,81,040). The death toll stands at 5,30,726, the data updated at 8...

Beijing: China Saturday reported nearly 60,000 coronavirus deaths in hospitals across the country over the last 30 days, amid criticism from the WHO that Beijing was heavily under-reporting the magnitude of the pandemic. The death toll included 59,938 COVID-19-related deaths at hospitals from December 8...

Los Angeles: The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have announced that their surveillance system flagged a possible link between the new Pfizer-BioNTech bivalent Covid-19 vaccine and strokes in people aged 65 and older. Following...

Los Angeles: Omicron new subvariant XBB.1.5 is estimated to account for 43 per cent of the Covid-19 cases in the US for the week ending January 14, according to data released by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The subvariant XBB.1.5 is...

Beijing: Covid cases will surge in rural China where healthcare is less accessible, a top Chinese epidemiologist has warned. Hundreds of millions of Chinese are travelling to their hometowns, many for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic began, ahead of the Lunar New Year,...

Washington: Researchers have created new molecules that can be sprayed into the nose to block the SARS-CoV-2 virus from entering the lungs and causing infection. The COVID-19 virus enters the body through the lungs when people breathe, resulting in illness. Engineers at the Johns Hopkins...

New Delhi: An expert panel of the central drug regulatory authority has recommended market authorisation for Serum Institute of India's Covid vaccine Covovax as a heterologous booster dose for adults who have been administered two doses of Covishield or Covaxin, official sources said  Thursday. Prakash...