Coronavirus

New Delhi: As on January 30, a total of 70,102 cases of Adverse Event Following Immunisation (AEFI) and 1,013 deaths were reported in India. This information was given Friday by the government in the Parliament. In a written reply to a question in the Lok...

New York: US researchers have accurately predicted outbreaks of Covid-19 using anonymous location information from mobile devices. The novel analysis applied in the study, led by a team at the Yale School of Public Health, could help health officials stem community outbreaks of Covid-19 and allocate...

CovidHong Kong: The Delta variant of Covid-19 can be transmitted from humans to hamsters and then be transferred back to humans, according to a new study. The new study, published in The Lancet in pre-print and awaiting peer-review, suggests that hamsters can spread the virus back...

Puri: Devotees will be allowed to enter the Shri Jagannath Temple here from Tuesday (February 1, 2022) from 6.00am to 9.00pm on all days except Sundays. The temple had been closed down January 10 to January 31 as Covid-19 cases shot up in Odisha mainly...

New Delhi: India registered 2,34,281 Covid cases and 893 deaths in a span of 24 hours, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said Sunday. With the addition of fresh fatalities, the death toll mounted to 4,94,091. Active caseload has reported a marginal decline...

Washington: Amid an ongoing resurgence across the world, the global coronavirus caseload has topped 37.21 crore, while the deaths have surged to more than 56.5 lakh and vaccinations to over 9.94 billion, according to Johns Hopkins University. In its latest update on Sunday morning, the...

New Delhi: Abnormalities have been identified in the lungs of long Covid patients that could offer a potential explanation for why some people experience breathlessness long after their initial infection, The Guardian has reported. The findings, from a pilot study involving 36 patients, raise the...

London: The BA.2 sub-variant of Omicron is 1.5 times more transmissible than the original Omicron strain, according to a study led by Danish researchers. Omicron, which is also referred to as B.1.1.529, has three main substrains, BA.1, BA.2, and BA.3, according to the World Health Organization...

Oslo: Covid-19 was likely far more widespread in Europe, and around the world, before a first official diagnosis was made, claimed a study. The virus was officially announced from an outbreak in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2019, but reports claim it to...

Amid the surging cases of Omicron in several countries, there are reports of another likely variant popping up from China linked to MERS. Scientists in China have issued warnings about NeoCoV, a mutation related to the Middle East respiratory syndrome MERS-CoV that is linked to...