The International Yoga Day was celebrated in Tamil Nadu on Sunday at educational institutions, Army Headquarters of Dakshin Bharat area and at other places. At the SRM Institute of Science and Technology near here, Vice Chancellor Sandeep Sancheti and others performed various yogas at their grounds. They also performed breathing exercises which are believed to […]
As communities around the world slowly begin to open their doors, global travel company Airbnb is expecting a surge in bookings owing to the pent-up travel demand. According to the company, over the weekend of June 5-7, gross booking value grew in year-over-year terms for the first time since February, when the coronavirus began to […]
Marking a major success story, Mumbai’s sore underbelly – Dharavi – has made a dramatic return from the brink in the ongoing war against coronavirus. As per the latest official data released on Sunday, Dharavi’s doubling time of corona cases has become more than twice compared with the wider Mumbai city – indicating a major […]
The drug regulator has approved Favipiravir for the treatment of mild to moderate Covid-19 patients in India. In a filing with the exchanges on Friday, Glenmark Pharmaceuticals said that it has just received the manufacturing and marketing approval from India’s drug regulator to launch the oral antiviral drug Favipiravir (FabiFlu) for the treatment of mild […]
Researchers have found that COVID-19 pandemic is having a significant impact on people with obesity as they struggle to manage their weight and mental health. For the study, published in the journal Clinical Obesity, the research team surveyed 123 weight management patients and revealed that nearly 73 per cent of the patients experienced increased anxiety […]
By Nisha Krishnan Nair Hey! This is Nisha Krishnan Nair, a zealous and passionate Child Psychologist by profession, bitten hard by curiosity for novelty and creativity which lands me to introspect every now and then with a question: “Am I doing enough with myself?” This wave of questioning self, hit me hard during this lockdown […]
Global pharmaceutical major Pfizer believes that a vaccine to prevent Covid-19 could be ready by the end of October, the company’s CEO Albert Bourla said. Pfizer is conducting clinical trials in the US and Europe for the BNT162 vaccine programme to prevent Covid-19 in collaboration with German mRNA company BioNTech. Bourla made the comments while […]
More than a million Australian children aged between 6 months and under 5 years can now receive a free influenza vaccine as part of the first National Immunisation Program to include all children in this age group. The Sanofi Pasteur influenza vaccine VAXIGRIP TETRA® will be used to vaccinate these children under the 2020 National […]
The World Health Organization (WHO), together with a group of global partners, launched a groundbreaking collaboration to accelerate both the development and equitable access to new essential technologies for COVID-19. At a virtual conference on Friday, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and other global leaders made an unprecedented commitment to work together to accelerate the […]
The total number of coronavirus cases in India reached 24,506 on Saturday, including foreign nationals, with 18,668 active cases, while the death toll has increased to 775, the Union Health Ministry said. The Health Ministry said in its daily update that of the 775 deaths, the highest — 301 — was reported from Maharashtra, followed […]