Coronavirus

Mumbai: Popular TV actor Shaheer Sheikh, who is known for starring in shows such as 'Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai' and 'Kuch Rang Pyar Ke Aise Bhi', has urged everyone to pray for his father, who is suffering from severe Covid infection. Shaheer took to...

JERUSALEM: A fourth shot of COVID-19 vaccine boosts antibodies to even higher levels than the third jab but it is not enough to prevent Omicron infections, according to a preliminary study in Israel. Israel's Sheba Medical Center has given second booster shots in a trial...

New Delhi/Davos: Israel has developed a "variant radar" dedicated to gathering intelligence on emerging COVID-19 variants across the world and it helped the country react to fast-spreading Omicron even before it got its name, its Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said Tuesday. Addressing the World Economic...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Government Tuesday asked the officials to make the Information, Education and Communication (IEC) campaign against Covid-19 more prescriptive and useful for the people already infected by the virus. Reviewing the awareness building and IEC activities under implementation in the state, Chief Secretary...

Amaravati: Telugu Desam Party (TDP) national president and former Andhra Pradesh chief minister N. Chandrababu Naidu has tested positive for Covid-19. The leader of opposition in Andhra Pradesh Assembly on Tuesday tweeted that he has tested positive. He has isolated himself at his residence at...

La Paz: Two members of Bolivia's national football team have tested positive for COVID-19, taking the total number of infected players in the Verde squad to eight. Striker Bruno Miranda and goalkeeper Daniel Vaca were ordered to self-isolate on Monday evening and will undergo new...

New Delhi: After going through two stressful years of the Covid-19 pandemic, more than 7 in 10 (71 per cent) of professionals questioned their abilities at work more now than before the pandemic while 63 per cent said they suffer from 'imposter syndrome', a new...

New Delhi: India witnessed a substantial decrease in fresh Covid cases, reporting 2,38,018 new infections in the last 24 hours, and a total of 310 deaths, said the Union ministry of health and family welfare Tuesday. With the addition of the new deaths, the toll...

New Delhi: Researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology Mandi and The International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), New Delhi, have identified phytochemicals in the petals of a Himalayan plant that could potentially be used to treat Covid-19 infections. The findings of the...

New Delhi: While Omicron is known to cause Covid re-infection, there is no strong evidence yet in the favour of a person being affected with the vaccine dodging strain again, said Indian health experts here on Monday. However, they also did not rule out such...