Australia’s Victoria state, the worst-hit by the coronavirus pandemic, has reported the lowest number of fresh Covid-19 cases since June, according to health authorities. On Saturday, Victoria reported 21 fresh cases, the lowest since June 24 when the state registered 20 infections, reports Xinhua news agency. With this, the overall nationwide caseload stood at 26,885. […]
With another significant single-day spike of 92,605 coronavirus cases, India’s total tally on Sunday breached the 54-lakh mark to reach 54,00,620 cases even as 1,133 more COVID-19 deaths were recorded in 24 hours. Of the total cases, 10,10,824 are still active, 43,03,043 patients cured and discharged, whereas another 86,752 lost the battle against the viral […]
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned that the global coronavirus pandemic is expanding risks to peace everywhere. “It poses an enormous threat to people caught up in conflict, which is why I made an immediate appeal for a global ceasefire,” the UN chief said at the UN peace bell ceremony on Thursday on the sidelines […]
Exactly six months after Maharashtra had its first coronavirus death on March 17 – of a 64-year-old man who succumbed at Mumbai’s Kasturba Hospital, the state has seen its death toll go up massively to 30,883, officials said on Thursday. This comes to a rough average of 172 deaths per day (till September 16), according […]
Patients on immunosuppressive therapy for common skin and rheumatic diseases like psoriasis and rheumatoid arthritis are not at increased risk for contracting Covid-19 and should continue taking their medicine as prescribed, say researchers. According to the study, published in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, most of these patients are not at any […]
Delivery executives of food-delivery platform Swiggy in Hyderabad will go on indefinite strike from Tuesday, demanding a hike in their delivery charges. They claimed that Swiggy has reduced their earning structure amid the Covid-19 pandemic and despite the rise in petrol prices. The delivery executives said that Swiggy reduced the minimum earning from earlier Rs […]
Severely ill Covid-19 patients on ventilators are placed in a prone (face down) position because it’s easier for them to breathe and reduces mortality. However, a new study shows that life-saving position can also cause permanent nerve damage in these vulnerable patients. According to the study, published in the British Journal of Anaesthesia, nerve damage […]
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has urged countries to use recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic to tackle climate change. “We have a choice: business as usual, leading to further calamity; or we can use the recovery from Covid-19 to provide a real opportunity to put the world on a sustainable path,” he said in a joint […]
The testing of Covid-19 vaccine being developed by AstraZeneca and University of Oxford has been put on hold due to a serious adverse reaction in a participant in the UK. Stat News reported that a large, Phase 3 study testing a Covid-19 vaccine being developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford at dozens of […]
Pandemic deniers held a protest in the Italian capital, drawing a few thousand people near the Circus Maximus in the historic center. Organisers included the far-right Forza Nuova (FN) party, the anti-vax movement, and virus-denying civic groups, which complained about all precautionary measures to fight the spread of the COVID-19 in the country, Xinhua news […]