Coronavirus

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to hold a meeting with chief ministers on the current Covid situation of the country April 27, officials said Saturday. An official source said that PM Modi will chair the meeting through video conferencing with Chief Ministers....

Geneva: The World Health Organisation Friday made a strong recommendation for Pfizer's antiviral for mild and moderate Covid-19 patients at highest risk of hospital admission. The oral antiviral drug, which is a combination of nirmatrelvir and ritonavir tablets, "is the best therapeutic choice for high-risk...

London: An immunocompromised UK patient suffered the longest known days, 505, with Covid infections, claim researchers. Previously the longest known PCR confirmed case is thought to be 335 days. Researchers at the King's College London and Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust studied nine...

New York: The SARS-CoV-2 virus can directly infect a specialised type of kidney cell, explaining why acute kidney injury is one of the main complications observed in patients with severe Covid-19, finds a study. Primarily known to infect cells in the respiratory tract, physicians were...

New Delhi: In the last 24 hours, India reported 2,451 new Covid-19 cases, a marginal increase against the 2,380 infections registered the previous day, the Union Health Ministry said Friday. Also in the same period, an additional 54 Covid fatalities increased the nationwide death toll...

New Delhi: Even as India has been seeing a significant rise in the number of Covid cases, speculations of a next wave of infections are rife. But health experts Tuesday said that the surge is not unexpected and likely paves way for the fourth wave...

Washington: The global coronavirus caseload has topped 502.8 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 6.19 million and vaccinations to over 11.15 billion, according to Johns Hopkins University. In its latest update on Friday morning, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering...

Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia reported 10,413 new Covid infections in the last 24 hours, bringing the national total to 4,363,024, according to the health ministry. There are 27 new imported cases, with 10,386 being local transmissions, data released on the ministry's website showed. Further 18 deaths...

New York: Heart complications are uncommon yet treatable for children and young adults after Covid-19 disease, according to a new scientific statement from the American Heart Association. However, the statement, published in the journal Circulation, showed that some children experience abnormal heart rhythm, inflammation in...

New Delhi: The new XE variant of Covid is just another form of Omicron, and its case was detected in January also before recently being found in Gujarat, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said Tuesday. "The XE variant is a combination or recombinant of both...