Health News Updates

New York: Scientists have developed a new therapy for influenza virus infections that may also prove effective against many other pathogenic virus infections, including HIV and Covid-19. In an average year, more than two million people in the US are hospitalized with the flu, and 30,000 to 80,000 of them die from it or related […]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi chaired a high-level meeting with Chief Ministers of all States and UTs on 24 November 2020 via video conferencing, to review the status and preparedness of COVID-19 response and management, with special emphasis on eight high focus States. These States were Haryana, Delhi, Chhattisgarh, Kerala, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Gujarat […]

Moscow: Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine has been found to be more than 95 per cent effective against Covid-19 in the second interim analysis of Phase 3 clinical trial data, its developers said on Tuesday. The analysis was based on data from volunteers obtained 42 days after the first dose — which corresponds with 21 days […]

New Delhi: India’s COVID-19 caseload went past 92 lakh with 44,376 new cases reported in a day, while the number of recoveries surged to 86.42 lakh, according to latest update of the Union Health ministry on Wednesday. The number of total coronavirus cases rose to 92,22,216 in the country, while the death toll due to […]

Washington: The total number of global coronavirus cases has topped 59.6 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 1.40 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University. The University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the current global caseload and death toll stood at 59,679,996 and 1,407,873, respectively, in its latest […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha on Wednesday recorded 730 fresh Covid-19 cases and 16 deaths. With this the positive tally in the State rose to 3,16,001, while fatalities due to the virus surged to 1,687, informed the State Health Department. As per Information & Public Relations (I&PR) Department, of the fresh cases reported from 30 districts, 419 are […]

New Delhi: Apollo Hospitals are gearing up to give one million vaccines a day once it is available across India through its hospitals, clinics, health centres, pharmacies and Apollo 24/7. “Covid-19 vaccine should be ready within the next 60-120 days”, Apollo 24/7 is doing a survey asking customers whether they will take the vaccine and […]

New York: In a grim milestone, the overall number of global coronavirus cases has surpassed the 60 million mark, while the deaths have surged to 1,413,325 according to the Johns Hopkins University. The global case count reached 60,037,735, with a total of 1,413,325 deaths worldwide as of 12:27 p.m. local time (1727 GMT), the CSSE […]

New Delhi:  With 44,489 new cases of Covid-19 infections, India’s total tally reached 92,66,705 on Thursday. It is the 19th straight day when India reported less than 50,000 cases in a day. The last time daily new cases crossed the 50,000-threshold was on November 7. According to the data released by the Ministry of Health […]

Bhubaneswar: Covid-19 fatality count in Odisha surged to 1,704 with the death of 17 more patients in various hospitals in the last 24 hours while the infection tally mounted to 3,16,645 with a single-day spike of 644 cases, informed the State health department on Thursday. As per State Information & Public Relations (I&PR) Department, of […]

London: In a new study, researchers have revealed that lung tissue of patients who suffered severely from Covid-19 shows good recovery in three months in most cases. The study from Radboud University in the Netherlands, published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, included 124 patients who had recovered from acute Covid-19 infections. Patients were divided […]

Sydney: Pneumonia vaccines can potentially reduce the impact of viruses such as Covid-19, said researchers. In a study, the researchers have found that Pneumonia vaccine has reduced illness and death in patients with pneumonia, serious lung conditions and rotavirus, a common disease which causes severe diarrhoea and vomiting. The University of Melbourne-led research team, which […]

New York: Drugmaker AstraZeneca is now facing tough questions from experts after the company admitted a manufacturing error by a contractor. Earlier this week, the drug manufacturer has announced about the promising results from its Covid-19 vaccine trial After disclosing promising results. AstraZeneca on Monday had announced that it recorded positive high-level results from an […]

London: Researchers have found coronaviruses closely related to SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the Covid-19 pandemic, in bats stored in laboratory freezers in Cambodia and Japan, according to a study published in the journal Nature. The virus in Cambodia was discovered in two Shamel’s horseshoe bats stored in a freezer, which were captured in the […]

Washington: The total number of global coronavirus cases has topped 60.8 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 1.42 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University. In its latest update on Friday, the University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the current global caseload and death toll stood at 60,860,169 […]