Health News Updates

Washington: The overall global coronavirus caseload has topped 93.7 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 2 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University. In its latest update on Saturday morning, the University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the current global caseload and death toll stood at 93,787,372 and […]

New Delhi: Amid the rollout of the world’s largest Covid-19 vaccination programme by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, here are a few things that you need to know about the two vaccines — ‘Covaxin’ and ‘Covishield’ — selected by the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI). So far, the government has procured 1.1 crore Covishield and […]

New Delhi: Authorities have released a new vaccine-focused caller tune and replaced the voice of actor Amitabh Bachchan with a woman’s as India rolled out the world’s largest vaccination drive against the coronavirus on Saturday. The new caller tune seeks to spread awareness about the COVID-19 vaccination drive and dispel rumours. “Naya saal Covid-19 ki […]

New Delhi: Health workers who got their first shots of Covaxin at AIIMS on Saturday were made to sign a consent form that promised compensation in case of a “severe adverse event” related to the vaccine. Covaxin has demonstrated the ability to produce antibodies against COVID-19 in phase one and phase two trials. “However, the […]

London: After the news broke that 23 elderly patients died in Norway following their immunization with the Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA vaccine against Covid-19, the country has launched a detailed investigation into the reported fatalities that has shocked the world. Doctors in Norway have been asked to conduct more thorough evaluations of very frail elderly patients in […]

Washington: The total global Covid-19 caseload has topped 94.4 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 2.02 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University. In its latest update on Sunday morning, the University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the current global caseload and death toll stood at 94,417,649 and […]

New Delhi: An epidemiologist at King’s College, London has claimed that there is an increase in the number of Covid patients suffering from uncomfortable mouth symptoms like oral ulcers – not yet listed by the World Health Organization (WHO) as one of the Covid-19 symptoms. Professor Tim Spector said in a tweet that he has […]

New Delhi: The daily coronavirus infections fell below 14,000 for the second time this month taking India’s COVID-19 caseload to 1,05,71,773, while 145 new fatalities were recorded, the lowest in around eight months, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Monday. A total of 13,788 infections have been reported in a day. The […]

Washington: The total number of global coronavirus cases has topped 95.5 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 2.03 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University. In its latest update on Tuesday morning, the University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the current global caseload and death toll stood at […]

Geneva: The world faces a “catastrophic moral failure” because of unequal Covid-19 vaccine policies, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said it was not fair for younger, healthy people in richer nations to get injections before vulnerable people in poorer states, the BBC reported. He said […]

New Delhi: Continuing its low streak of fresh daily cases, India on Tuesday recorded 10,064 new coronavirus infections in the past 24 hours, the lowest single-day spike in seven months. With this the overall tally of Covid-19 cases touched 1,05,81,837, according to the Union Health Ministry. #CoronaVirusUpdates: 📍Total #COVID19 Cases in India (as on January […]

London:  In a startling revelation, European Medicines Agency (EMA) has said that hackers have manipulated stolen Covid-19 vaccine data in an attempt to “undermine trust” in the vaccines. The ongoing investigation of the cyberattack on EMA found that some of the unlawfully accessed documents related to Covid-19 medicines and vaccines have been leaked on the […]

New Delhi:  With 13,823 new coronavirus infections reported in the last 24 hours, India’s COVID-19 caseload rose to 1,05,95,660, while the recoveries surged to 1,02,45,741, the Union Health Ministry said on Wednesday. The death toll due to the disease increased to 1,52,718 in the country as 162 new fatalities were recorded, the ministry data updated […]

Washington: The total number of global Covid-19 cases has topped 96.8 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 2.07 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University. The University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE), in its latest update on Thursday morning revealed that the current global caseload and death toll stood at […]

New Delhi: India’s COVID-19 caseload crossed 1,06,10,883 with 15,223 new infections being reported in a day, while the recoveries have surged to 1,02,65,706, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Thursday. For the past 14 days, the country has been recording less than 20,000 daily new infections even as the toll remained below […]