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November 03, 2023 10:23 AM ISTHumans have finite mental resources, and they’ve been decidedly depleted by years of dealing with Covid and its fallout, plus economic woes and worries about geopolitical upheaval
October 10, 2023 01:09 PM IST COVID, the Ukraine war and climate chaos make for anxious reading, so maybe it’s time to go back to numbers
October 05, 2023 11:40 AM IST By sifting through sewage, scientists can study unusual cases and even the origin of the virus
October 03, 2023 04:56 PM IST The Covid-19 shots that seemed to appear overnight built on decades of work by Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman
September 28, 2023 11:24 AM IST A new study, led by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Yale School of Medicine and published in Nature, defines some critical differences in certain biomarkers of people with long COVID. The next step is even more critical: coming up with a way to cure them
September 18, 2023 03:16 PM IST The profession built to help others weather disruption benefited from a rush of demand during the COVID-19 pandemic and expanded accordingly. But that has come to an abrupt end...
September 18, 2023 10:35 AM IST Containment zones, door-to-door medical checkups, and closure of schools and colleges are some of the steps that authorities have taken in Kerala. For the fourth time since 2018, the state is again battling the deadly Nipah virus. It was earlier detected in Kozhikode in 2018 and 2021 and in Ernakulam in 2019. So what is the Nipah Virus, what are its symptoms, and is it dangerous? Watch to find out
September 01, 2023 05:47 PM IST Pirola first appeared on the radar on July 24, 2023, and has quickly earned the WHO's classification as a 'variant of interest'.
August 21, 2023 11:02 PM IST Covid-19 Update Highlight: An overview of the global COVID-19 situation was given by Secretary, Health including certain newer variants of SARS-CoV-2 virus like BA.2.86 (Pirola) and EG.5 (Eris), which have been reported globally. He underlined that as per World Health Organization (WHO), while EG.5 (Eris) has been reported from over 50 countries, the variant BA.2.86 (Pirola) is in four countries.
August 21, 2023 06:42 AM IST The official said that while the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are reporting an increase in infections and hospital admissions from the virus, overall levels remain low.
August 18, 2023 06:21 PM IST The WHO classified the new variant as one under surveillance "due to the large number (more than 30) of spike gene mutations it carries"
August 07, 2023 11:32 AM IST New Covid variant: Eris has inherited some of its symptoms from the parent Omicron strain.
July 02, 2023 10:47 AM IST The death toll was recorded at 5,31,907, the data updated at 8 am stated.
June 28, 2023 01:04 PM IST The end of the COVID emergency in May led to a steep drop in COVID vaccines and testing, Walgreens executives said, while penny-pinching customers hunted for discounted items, shunning normal-priced consumer health products.
June 28, 2023 09:47 AM IST The numbers issued on Tuesday by the US Small Business Administration inspector general are much greater than the office's previous projections and underscore how vulnerable the Paycheck Protection and COVID-19 Economic Injury Disaster Loan programmes were to fraudsters, particularly during the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic.
June 18, 2023 11:53 AM IST The death toll was recorded at 5,31,895 with two deaths reconciled by Kerala, the data updated at 8 am stated.
June 15, 2023 05:55 PM IST The TMC MP's letter to the police came after reports said that a bot linked to social media app Telegram breached the CoWIN portal and gained access to the data of scores of Indians who had booked slots for vaccination against coronavirus.
June 14, 2023 04:02 PM IST Covid-19 complications: A study, which uses a new imaging technique called correlated diffusion imaging (CDI), has found that Covid-19 causes changes to the brain and leads to diffusion abnormalities in the white matter of the brain's cerebellum.
June 09, 2023 06:45 AM IST Dr Ashish Jha, 52, was appointed as the White House COVID-19 Coordinator in April 2022 and will return to Brown University, where he had served as the dean of the varsity's school of public health.
June 08, 2023 04:19 PM IST A bulk of the long Covid patients remained "extremely unwell", and experienced fatigue which is similar to, or even worse than, persons reeling under severe kidney impairment or cancer-related anaemia, stated the study which was conducted in the UK.
June 05, 2023 06:23 AM IST Jacinda Ardern was named "Dame Grand Companion," the second highest honour in New Zealand, on King Charles' birthday holiday celebrated by the country on June 5, and she made the coronation honours list for this year.
July 10, 2023 12:58 PM IST Nine years of the Modi government can be considered to be excellent years for the economy and people of India. Despite the worst pandemic of the century, in these nine years, India’s international standing has also improved significantly, not only in terms of ranking in GDP but also in terms of cooperation with other countries, both rich and poor
May 24, 2023 10:18 AM IST Disillusionment has replaced the high hopes that accompanied China's reopening. But China may be a victim of the staggering successes of the past 30 years
May 23, 2023 11:51 AM IST A new pact is a priority for WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus who called it a "generational commitment that we will not go back to the old cycle of panic and neglect" at the U.N. agency's annual assembly.
May 23, 2023 12:56 PM IST Zoom has raised its full-year revenue and profit forecasts, defying a slowdown in growth following the pandemic boom and facing tough economic conditions, according to Reuters. Despite an initial rally, the company's shares pared gains to a 0.7 percent increase after-market hours.
