Coronavirus

Stockholm: Police in Sweden have announced that tens of thousands of individuals were believed to have travelled abroad with bogus negative PCR Covid test certificates. Around 35,000 individuals who are believed to have fallen victims to the alleged scam, involving a testing company that the...

Geneva: Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has issued a warning to world leaders that the Covid-19 pandemic "is nowhere near over". The WHO chief cautioned against the assumption that the newly dominant Omicron variant is significantly milder and has eliminated...

Paris: French Prime Minister Jean Castex announced that the government will proceed to ease certain Covid-19 related restrictions in February. During a press conference Thursday evening, Castex stressed that the Omicron variant "is absolutely not just a flu", reports Xinhua news agency He once again...

New Delhi: About 63 per cent eligible healthcare workers, 58 per cent frontline workers and 39 per cent of people above 60 years of age with comorbidities have received their precaution dose of COVID-19 vaccine, the health ministry said Thursday. Responding to a question, Union...

New York: US drug maker Pfizer has released three lab studies, not peer-reviewed yet, which demonstrate that its antiviral Paxlovid is effective against the Omicron variant of Covid-19. In a statement, Pfizer noted that the in vitro studies suggest that Paxlovid has the potential to...

United Nations/Geneva: The WHO has warned that increased and rapid spread of the Omicron variant, combined with greater social mixing around the end of year holiday period and challenges with adherence to public health and social measures are expected to lead to a spike in...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has received 30,000 'OmiSure' RT-PCR test kits for early detection of the Omicron variant of COVID-19, a senior health department official said. Odisha's Director of Health Services Bijay Mohapatra said: "The trial run of the Omisure kits are in progress. It...

Amaravati: A youth committed suicide after testing positive for Covid-19 in Andhra Pradesh's Chittoor district, police said. The man jumped to death from the fourth floor of a building Tuesday night. The incident occurred in Kuppam town. According to police Vijay Achari (30) had consumed...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Wednesday told the state governments to reach out to the families who lost their loved ones to Covid-19, and emphasised, the governments should not wait for them to file applications to claim compensation. A bench comprising Justices M.R. Shah and...

Mumbai: Actor Fardeen Khan has tested positive for Covid and says he is asymptomatic. Fardeen, who is the son of late veteran star Feroz Khan, took to Twitter on Wednesday to share the news. "Tested positive for C-19. Fortunately I am asymptomatic. Sending my best...