Passengers evacuated from hantavirus-stricken cruise ship begin flying home from Canary IslandsPassengers from the hantavirus-hit cruise ship MV Hondius are flying home from Tenerife. They are being evacuated by military and governmen...
11 May, 2026, 06.36 AM IST
WHO warns of more hantavirus cases in 'limited' outbreakThree passengers died from hantavirus after a cruise. The World Health Organization believes the outbreak will be limited if precautions ar...
07 May, 2026, 09.50 PM IST
Hantavirus outbreak, death rate, contagious, incubation period: Is Hantavirus the Next Covid? Expert raises 'serious' warningHantavirus cruise ship's itinerary included stops across the South Atlantic, including mainland Antarctica and the remote islands of South ...
07 May, 2026, 06.48 AM IST
Govt has eased FDI norms for foreign cos having small Chinese/Hong Kong stake: An explainerIndia has eased Foreign Direct Investment rules for companies with up to ten percent Chinese or Hong Kong shareholding. These firms can now...
04 May, 2026, 12.27 PM IST
How 'politics and apathy' derailed war-ravaged Afghanistan's anti-doping effortsAfghanistan's anti-doping efforts have collapsed since the Taliban's return. No tests were conducted for three years. Last year, only four ...
17 Apr, 2026, 03.38 PM IST
ET Prime Special Series: Multibagger or Bankrupt - Part 54: Will manufacturing capability help this firm move into defence space?The auto ancillary sector is being forced to answer a difficult question: When technology changes, which suppliers remain relevant and whic...
15 Apr, 2026, 11.41 PM IST
Evidence of brain injury present even months after acute Covid infection: StudyA new report on COVID-19 suggests that ongoing inflammation and brain injury may not be detected by blood tests measuring inflammation. The...
23 Dec, 2023, 03.45 PM IST
England to end pre-departure COVID test rule for arrivals from ChinaFrom Friday, the UK Health Security Agency's voluntary, on-arrival testing programme of travellers arriving from China to London's Heathrow...
17 Mar, 2023, 07.14 PM IST
UK to scrap COVID tests for fully vaccinated travellersSpeaking to reporters during a visit to a hospital in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, Johnson said the daily Omicron variant data is gettin...
25 Jan, 2022, 09.50 AM IST
UK authorities ease COVID testing requirements in EnglandThe new rules don't apply to the other parts of the U.K. - Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales - which formulate their own health regulati...
06 Jan, 2022, 07.16 AM IST
UK to remove all countries from its COVID travel ban red listFrom 4am on Monday, the remaining seven destinations on the UK's COVID-19 travel ban red list – Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, ...
29 Oct, 2021, 05.00 PM IST
Britain reports record 1,610 daily Covid deathsThe number was steeply up from the 599 deaths reported on Monday. There is often a lag in reporting new deaths after the weekend.
20 Jan, 2021, 12.32 AM IST
All travellers to Singapore to undergo mandatory COVID test on arrivalCurrently, travellers who are not Singaporeans or permanent residents and who have a recent travel history to high-risk countries or region...
18 Jan, 2021, 07.27 AM IST
Karnataka says 3 UK returnees with new Covid-19 strain and their contacts are isolatedThe union health ministry said a total of six samples of UK returnees have tested positive for the Britain variant of which three were from...
29 Dec, 2020, 12.57 PM IST
Chaos at Delhi airport, British passengers stuck over eight hours to get COVID-19 reportAs per Standard Operating Procedure (SOP), passengers from the UK will only be permitted to exit the airport when the entire passenger's Co...
23 Dec, 2020, 02.20 PM IST
Health condition of passengers arriving from UK recently to be checked: Delhi govtAll passengers arriving from the UK are now being tested for COVID-19 at Delhi airport, Health Minister Satyendar Jain told reporters.
22 Dec, 2020, 03.52 PM IST
90-minute British DnaNudge COVID-19 test is accurate, Lancet study findsThe new test, based on the design of a DNA test developed by a professor at Imperial College London, received approval for clinical use by ...
18 Sep, 2020, 02.08 PM IST