Hantavirus requires prolonged close contact for transmission unlike Covid: Soumya SwaminathanFormer WHO chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan believes the Hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship is containable. The virus requires prolonge...
09 May, 2026, 09.47 PM IST
Eight Hantavirus cases reported; three dead, six confirmed Andes Virus: WHOEight Hantavirus cases have been reported, with three deaths. Six cases are confirmed as Andes virus. The World Health Organization assesse...
09 May, 2026, 05.19 PM IST
New hantavirus case suspected on remote island as contact tracing continuesTristan da Cunha, known for its isolation, has reported a potential hantavirus case linked to the cruise ship MV Hondius. A British travele...
08 May, 2026, 06.53 PM IST
Spain readies for evacuations as a hantavirus-hit cruise ship heads for Canary IslandsSpanish authorities are preparing to receive over 140 passengers and crew from a hantavirus-stricken cruise ship. The vessel is expected to...
08 May, 2026, 02.29 PM 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
Suspected hantavirus outbreak on Atlantic cruise ship leaves 3 dead, WHO confirms: What is it and how does it spread?A suspected hantavirus outbreak on the MV Hondius cruise ship has resulted in three deaths and several illnesses, with one patient in inten...
04 May, 2026, 07.10 AM IST
‘Cicada’ Covid variant with 75 mutations is spreading: What it means for youCicada Covid Variant Symptoms: A new COVID variant with 70-75 spike protein mutations has been detected. The new virus can potentially evad...
31 Mar, 2026, 01.01 PM IST
China records drop in new daily COVID casesOn Monday, China posted a record daily high of 40,347 cases - 3,822 symptomatic and 36,525 asymptomatic infections, which China counts sepa...
29 Nov, 2022, 08.32 AM IST
China reports another daily record of COVID cases as protests ripple across the countryExcluding imported infections, China reported 40,052 new local cases, of which 3,748 were symptomatic and 36,304 were asymptomatic, up from...
28 Nov, 2022, 07.54 AM IST
China reports 9,005 new COVID cases for November 9 vs 8,335 a day earlierThere were no new deaths, same as a day earlier, keeping fatalities at 5,226. As of Nov. 9, mainland China had confirmed 267,544 cases with...
10 Nov, 2022, 08.03 AM IST
AstraZeneca Covid booster shot effective against severe disease, UK study findsThe researchers from the UK Health Security Agency, London, estimated vaccine effectiveness by analysing data on all adults aged 18 years a...
05 May, 2022, 04.56 PM IST
Why are Shanghai's COVID infections nearly all asymptomatic?Although outbreaks overseas have demonstrated that Omicron was less deadly than its predecessors, with lower levels of hospitalisation, the...
30 Mar, 2022, 10.42 AM IST
No evidence Omicron has lower severity than Delta variant: UK studyThere is "no evidence" that Omicron has a lower severity than the Delta strain, according to a study in the UK which also found that the ne...
20 Dec, 2021, 02.15 PM IST
How much protection does Covid booster dose provide against Omicron?The health experts reiterated that vaccines were still likely to offer good protection.
11 Dec, 2021, 05.07 PM IST
‘Shots limited, easing eligibility criteria now will be dangerous’Current estimates show that till July-August, there will be just sufficient vaccines for the 40-crore people above the age of 45 years in t...
11 Apr, 2021, 12.32 PM IST
View: Even if vaccines don’t eliminate coronavirus straight away, they are still useful in controlling itThe general expectation is that when the vaccine against Covid-19 is rolled out in the population it would mark the end of the pandemic, th...
22 Feb, 2021, 10.23 AM IST
Moderna COVID-19 vaccine shows 94.1 per cent efficacy in trial: StudyThe study, published on Wednesday in The New England Journal of Medicine, found that among over 30,000 participants randomised to receive t...
31 Dec, 2020, 01.22 PM IST