Planning to have a blast at New Year's eve? Be careful; 13 U.S states have been listed as having "very high" respiratory virus activityAs the New Year’s Eve comes pretty close, the respiratory illness activity in the US has gone up and CDC at the same time have issued a war...
31 Dec, 2024, 06.46 PM IST
Joe Biden kept in the dark: How spy agencies blocked key COVID lab leak briefingRecent reports indicate that U.S. intelligence agencies, including the FBI, suppressed key findings suggesting COVID-19 originated from a l...
27 Dec, 2024, 12.21 PM IST
Hearses queue at Beijing crematorium, even as China reports no new COVID-19 deathsFollowing widespread protests, the country of 1.4 billion people this month began dismantling its "zero-COVID" regime of lockdowns and test...
21 Dec, 2022, 12.07 PM IST
Beijing braces for surge in severe Covid cases as world watches with concernThe easing coincided with a jump in COVID cases that experts say will likely gather pace through winter, with projections suggesting China ...
21 Dec, 2022, 09.07 AM IST
33 countries report 650 cases of mysterious hepatitis in kids: WHOOut of the 650 probable cases, at least 38 (6 per cent) children have required transplants, and nine (1 per cent) deaths have been reported...
29 May, 2022, 10.23 PM IST
BA.2 Covid variant is like Omicron's sister. Here's what we know about it so farWe're seeing cases of a sub-variant of Omicron, known as BA.2, emerge in Australia and more than 50 countries.
03 Feb, 2022, 10.21 AM IST
Wuhan lab's classified information hampering search for COVID-19 originsTang Kaihong, a local representative of China's National Administration for the Protection of State Secrets, discussed the national securit...
23 Jun, 2021, 09.08 AM IST
New rapid Covid tests on the horizon as novel method to detect single coronavirus particles emergesThe work may lead to fast and accurate screening tests for diseases like COVID-19 and influenza.
30 Nov, 2020, 05.38 PM IST
COVID-19: Scientists develop novel method to detect single virus particlesIn the new method, the scientists said a layer of the compound silicon nitride just 50 nanometres (nm) thick has tiny nanopores added. The ...
28 Nov, 2020, 03.20 PM IST
Coronavirus is now a major illness category under health claims, shows dataCovid-19 as a category had more claims registered than other common ailments classifications such as injury and poisoning at 8%, genitourin...
10 Sep, 2020, 08.35 AM IST
The coronavirus has reached sensitive tribal belts, can local administration check its spread?The question is whether the local administrations in these far-flung districts are equipped in terms of medical infrastructure and testing ...
15 Aug, 2020, 11.16 PM IST
Centre issues state-wise division of Covid-19 red, orange & green zonesThis classification of districts is to be followed by states and union territories for a week post May 3 for containment operations. Metrop...
08 May, 2020, 09.29 AM IST
NBFCs seek more time, one-time recast of all NPAsUrge RBI, finmin to relax timeline to 270 days, suspend classification of NPAs for 2 months.
21 Mar, 2020, 09.59 AM IST
A substantial cut in policy rate is warranted at this stageThis is cause for cheer for those involved in disease management and economic policy.
17 Mar, 2020, 08.58 AM IST
Govt to seek NPA relief for companies hit by coronavirusThe move follows a petition from some industry representatives to finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman to not just relax the norms but also ...
22 Feb, 2020, 12.22 PM IST
Virus death toll in Hubei surges by 242 in one day: GovtIn its daily update, Hubei's health commission confirmed another 14,840 new cases in the central province, where the outbreak emerged in De...
13 Feb, 2020, 08.53 AM IST
Central team sent to Jaipur after 8 more people test positive for Zika infectionAccording to the World Health Organization's classification scheme on the prevalence of Zika virus, India is in category 2, indicating ongo...
05 Oct, 2018, 07.53 PM IST