New Delhi, September 19 (IANS) India reported 30,773 new Covid-19 cases and 309 deaths in the last 24 hours, according to the Health Ministry's latest bulletin released on Sunday.
With the new fatalities
New Delhi, September 18 (PTI): Will a booster shot provide the turbocharge for Covid immunity that India is looking for? Maybe in an ideal situation where most people are fully vaccinated but not when less than
Bengaluru, September 17 (IANS) Serum Institute of India CEO Adar Poonawalla on Friday said that it was unethical to start giving the third booster dose of Covid vaccine to someone when others in certain countri
New Delhi, September 17 (PTI): There will not be a third wave of Covid of the size and consequence the country witnessed during the second wave unless there is a new variant of coronavirus, top vaccinologist Ga
NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 17 (IANS): SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, could have spilled from animals to people multiple times, according to a preliminary analysis of viral genomes sampled from people infe
HYDERABAD, SEPTEMBER 17 (IANS): September 17 is commemorated as the World Patient Safety Day, and this year the World Health Organization has come forward with "Safe Maternal & Newborn Care" as th
New Delhi, September 16 (PTI): The novel coronavirus may infect a higher proportion of pregnant women and they can develop moderate-to-severe diseases, an ICMR study has said, underlining the need for them to s
LONDON, SEPTEMBER 16 (IANS): Good amount of Vitamin D in the body before Covid-19 infection can prevent severe disease and death, according to an international study.
A team from Trinity College in Ireland,
New Delhi, September 16 (PTI): COVID-19 in children should not be of much concern if they are asymptomatic and do not have severe infection, experts said on Thursday, amid some states, including Mizoram and Ker
SINGAPORE, SEPTEMBER 15 (IANS): An average of about 400,000 people are infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus (SARSr-CoVs) annually in South and Southeast Asia, according to a new s
Washington, September 15 (PTI): Immunity generated by the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine lasts for at least six months, and there is no indicator that vaccinated people will need a booster shot, according to a study.
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 15 (IANS): Many young and middle-aged people today are dying of sudden heart attacks. Studies show that cardiovascular diseases (CVD) strike Indians a decade earlier compared to their Weste
Washington, September 15 (PTI): Physical distancing of two metres -- about six and a half feet -- may not be enough to sufficiently prevent transmission of virus-carrying airborne aerosols indoors, according to
NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 14 (IANS): Hospitalised Covid-19 patients are substantially more likely to harbour autoantibodies -- antibodies directed at their own tissues or at substances their immune cells secrete into
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 14 (IANS): In continuation of the decline in daily Covid-19 cases, India registered 25,404 new infections in the last 24 hours, a 6.8 per cent decrease from the previous day, according to t
New Delhi, September 13 (PTI): Vaccine efficacy against severe COVID19, even for the delta variant, is so high that booster doses for the general population are not appropriate at this stage in the pandemic, ac
Kolkata, September 13 (IANS): According to hospital sources most of the children came from the neighbouring Jalpaiguri Sadar, Mainaguri, Dhupguri and Mekhliganj, Haldibari in Kochbihar.
According to of
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 13 (IANS): India witnessed a slight dip in new Covid cases yet again as in the last 24 hours 27,254 fresh cases were registered, the Ministry of Health and Family Affairs said on Monday.
NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 13 (IANS): Worried about how to work out with masks on? A new study shows that exercising with a face mask on does not significantly increase body temperature or heart rate during exercises,
Toronto, September 13 (PTI): Convalescent plasma does not reduce the risk of intubation or death in COVID-19 patients, according to a study which found that people receiving the therapy experienced more serious