Washington: US pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson announced that it has temporarily paused its Covid-19 vaccine trial after a participant became unwell. “We have temporarily paused further dosing in all our Covid-19 vaccine candidate clinical trials, including the Phase 3 ENSEMBLE trial, due to an unexplained illness in a study participant,” Xinhua news agency quoted […]
New Delhi: India’s tally on Tuesday mounted to 71,75,880 cases with a spike of 55,342 coronavirus cases, the lowest since August. India recorded around 55,000 cases on July 31 (55,078), August 4 (52,050) and August 18 (55,079). India is showing a trend of declining average daily cases over the past five weeks. After a month, […]
Tokyo: Scientists have estimated that the age of an individual does not indicate how likely they are to be infected by Covid-19, however, the development of symptoms, the progression of the disease, and mortality are age-dependent. There have been a large number of deaths due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, and it has been shown […]
New Delhi: Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan appealed to people on Tuesday to observe COVID-19-appropriate behaviour during the forthcoming festival season and the winter months “when the likelihood of an increase in the disease is high”. Vardhan, who chaired the 21th meeting of the high-level Group of Ministers (GoM) on COVID-19 via video-conference here, said […]
New York: Global Covid-19 cases have surpassed 38 million, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University. The global case count on Tuesday reached 38,006,121, with a total of 1,083,875 deaths worldwide, the CSSE data showed, Xinhua news agency reported. The US reported 7,850,829 cases and 215,775 deaths, both […]
New Delhi: India’s COVID-19 caseload rose to 72,39,389 with 63,509 infections being reported in a day, while the number of people who have recuperated from the disease crossed 63 lakh pushing the recovery rate to 87.05 per cent, according to the Health Ministry data updated on Wednesday. The coronavirus death toll climbed to 1,10,586 with […]
Geneva: The World Health Organisation (WHO) has lauded India’s Aarogya Setu app during COVID-19 virtual media briefing at Geneva on Tuesday. WHO chief Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that the app helped city public health departments identify clusters and expand testing in the second worst affected country. “The Aarogya Setu app from India has been […]
New York: New research adds to the growing body of evidence that immunity persists for at least several months after being infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19. For the findings, published in the journal ‘Immunity’, the research team lead by Indian-origin researcher in the US studied the production of antibodies from a sample […]
Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday announced that the country has registered the second Covid-19 vaccine, according to media reports. Russia became the first country to give regulatory approval to a Covid-19 vaccine in August when Sputnik V was officially registered ahead of large-scale clinical trial, drawing criticism from some quarters in the scientific […]
Washington: The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 38.4 million, while the deaths have soared to more than 1,091,240, according to the Johns Hopkins University. As of Thursday morning, the total number of cases stood at 38,426,373 and the fatalities increased to 1,091,245, the University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed […]
New Delhi: India’s COVID-19 tally of cases climbed to 73.07 lakh with 67,735 new cases in a day, while 63,83,441 people have recuperated so far pushing the national recovery rate to 87.35 per cent on Thursday, according to the Union Health Ministry data. The total coronavirus cases mounted to 73,07,097 and the death toll climbed […]
London: New research adds to the growing body of evidence that people with blood type ‘O’ may have a lower risk of Covid-19 infection and reduced likelihood of severe outcomes, including organ complications if they do get sick. Two studies published in the journal Blood Advances suggest that individuals with blood type ‘O’ may be […]
New Delhi: Nokia on Thursday announced an automated, zero-touch thermal detection solution that has been designed to help spot potential Covid-19 infections in facilities with thousands of people. Leveraging advanced analytics, a business rules engine, centralised management, machine learning and ubiquitous connectivity, the Nokia solution dramatically reduces the cost of detection and ensures business continuity […]
New Delhi: World Health Organization (WHO) chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan on Thursday said that young and healthy people may have to wait till 2022 to get the Covid-19 vaccine. Swaminathan also stressed that health workers and those at highest risks should be prioritised. She indicated that, despite the many vaccine trials being undertaken, speedy, mass […]
Washington: The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 38.8 million, while the deaths have soared to more than 1,097,180, according to the Johns Hopkins University. As of Friday morning, the total number of cases stood at 38,833,032 and the fatalities increased to 1,097,189, the University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed […]
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