Coronavirus

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Thursday appealed to people not to panic over the COVID-19 pandemic, but to adhere to the guidelines to defeat the virus. Patnaik said this while reviewing the prevailing COVID-19 situation in the state. He asked the officials to focus...

New Delhi: India's drug regulator Thursday granted regular market approval for COVID-19 vaccines Covishield and Covaxin for use in the adult population subject to certain conditions, official sources said. The approval was granted under the New Drugs and Clinical Trials Rules, 2019. Under the conditions,...

New York: The drugs behind the new pills to treat Covid-19 remain very effective against the Omicron variant of the virus in lab tests, according to a new study. However, lab tests also showed that the available antibody therapies -- typically given intravenously in hospitals --...

New Delhi: Individuals infected with Omicron have significant immune response which could neutralise not only Omicron, but also other variants of concern, including the most prevalent Delta variant, an Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) study showed. The study analysed the IgG and neutralising antibodies...

Geneva: The next Covid-19 variant that will rise will be more contagious than Omicron, but there's no guarantee that the future strains will be milder, the World Health Organization said. According to Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO's Covid-19 technical lead, the real question scientists need to...

Washington: President Joe Biden's administration Tuesday formally withdrew the Covid vaccination-or-testing mandate for large businesses that was struck down by the Supreme Court. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) said that although it was withdrawing the mandate it "strongly encourages vaccination of workers against the...

Hyderabad: Telugu Megastar Chiranjeevi took to his social media handles Wednesday to announce that he has tested positive for Covid-19, adding to the long list of film personalities who have been targets of the virus. In his note, Chiranjeevi states: "Despite all precautions, I have...

Washington: Amid an ongoing resurgence across the world, the global coronavirus caseload has topped 357.9 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 5.61 million and vaccinations to over 9.85 billion, according to Johns Hopkins University. In its latest update Wednesday morning, the University's...

New Delhi: The Covid-19 pandemic has resurfaced, and if the last two years have taught us anything, it's that the coronavirus should not be taken for granted. And, while face masks have become a necessity amid the two-year-old pandemic, many people are still confused about...

Two studies based on real-world COVID-19 UK data on Thursday reported that the Omicron variant is less severe than the Delta variant, with fewer infected people requiring hospitalisation. Research by Imperial College London found that people with PCR-confirmed Omicron are 40 to 45 per cent...