Coronavirus

London: Covid-19 hospitalisations have increased by 24 per cent in one week in the UK as new variant BA.2.86, dubbed as Pirola, sweeps across the country. According to data published by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) from the last week of September, the number...

Singapore: Singapore is seeing a fresh Covid-19 infection wave, with estimated daily cases rising from about 1,000 three weeks ago to 2,000 in the past two weeks, according to a media report. The new rise in infection numbers are due to the EG.5 and its...

New Delhi: New Covid variants XBB.1.5, EG.5 and BA.2.86 have led to a resurgence in cases of Covid-19, particularly in the US, Europe and Asia. In late August, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) first reported an increase in transmission of Covid...

New York: Covid-19 viral variants can evolve about three times faster in deer than in humans, according to a study that documented at least 30 Covid infections in white-tailed deer in the US that were introduced by humans. The study, published in the Nature Communications,...

New Delhi: India has recorded 24 new coronavirus infections, the lowest since January 2020 when the first case of the virus was reported in Kerala, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated Monday. The count of active cases was 1,431 while the death toll...

New Delhi: India has recorded a single-day rise of 56 new COVID-19 infections and the count of active cases now stands at 1,453, according to Union Health Ministry data updated Wednesday. According to the data updated at 8am, the death toll due to the disease...

New Delhi: An overactive inflammatory response could be at the root of many Long COVID or Post-Covid cases, according to new research. A set of molecules associated with inflammation was found in the blood proteins of only a subset of patients with long COVID and...

New Delhi: India has recorded 202 new coronavirus infections, while the active cases have decreased to 3,343 from 3,502, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated Sunday. The death toll has increased to 5,31,880 with two deaths, the data updated at 8 am stated....

Washington: About 10 per cent of people appear to suffer long COVID after an omicron infection, a lower estimate than earlier in the pandemic, according to a study of nearly 10,000 Americans that aims to help unravel the mysterious condition. Early findings from the National...

New Delhi: Researchers have discovered that heart attack patients who suffered from Covid-19 had a significant amount of clotting in their arteries both before and after intervention. Importantly, clots were seen in multiple arteries in close to 30 per cent of patients, a phenomenon observed...