A young group of Covid warriors in rural Rajasthan is leading the charge to educate and protect their communities to fight the challenge of an infodemic triggered by the misinformation circulated via social media, which has led to instances of vaccine refusal and resistance to following the Covid-19 safety protocols....
The city of Binzhou, in China's Shandong province, has reported two anthrax cases, including one death, the local health commission said....
Researchers have pointed to a significant decline in kidney function in Covid-19 long-haulers and even among those who had mild infections of the virus....
The phase 2 trials of India's first intranasal vaccine against Covid, being developed by Bharat Biotech in collaboration with Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, have commenced at Prakhar hospital in Kanpur....
The US researchers have grown mini human lungs in lab dishes using adult stem cells, featuring all types of cells that make up the human organ, allowing for testing of new treatments for respiratory diseases, including Covid-19....
Myanmar's Foreign Affairs Ministry on Tuesday further extended the entry restrictions for travellers till the end of September....
The highly infectious Delta variant continued being the "dominant variant" in South Africa and the driver of the third wave, as the newly detected C.1.2 variant was present at very low levels, scientists said....
In a first systematic study, the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) here has evaluated that the Covid-19 vaccine response to various antirheumatic and immune modulating drugs is less compared to the others....
India on Wednesday witnessed surge in new Covid cases with 41,965 fresh coronavirus infections were reported in the last 24 hours, against Tuesday's 30,941 cases. At the same time the country created a record in vaccination with 1.33 crore people inoculated in a single day....
As Japan continues to find black and pink particles in the Moderna Covid vaccine vials, it has temporarily halted the inoculation programmes in many regions, say media reports....
