Underfunding of the public healthcare system and the particularly disastrous Covid-19 second wave worsened health infrastructure and disproportionately affected health outcomes of marginalised groups, according to a report by Oxfam India....
Saudi Arabia will allow citizens who have received two doses of Covid-19 vaccine to travel abroad from August 9, the Saudi Press Agency reported. ...
While the continents of North, Central and South Americas only saw a small increase in cases recently, they still account for more than a quarter of the gloval Covid-19 caseload, as well as 40 per cent of the deaths worldwide, officials of the World Health Organization (WHO) said....
Kuwait has started vaccinating teenagers aged 12-15 against Covid-19 in preparation for the new school year that begins in September....
UK researchers have received a 20 million pound fund to investigate 'long Covid", its causes, and potential treatments, the media reported....
Researchers are using computer models to simulate Covid-19 infections on a cellular level -- the basic structural level of the human body....
A Beijing-based vet, who was confirmed as China's first human infection case with Monkey B Virus (BV), has died from the virus, but his close contacts are safe from it, for now, Global Times reported....
Sri Lanka's National Medicines Regulatory Authority (NMRA) has approved the Chinese Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use in the island nation....
The White House Covid Response team is warning Americans that the US outbreak is becoming "a pandemic of the unvaccinated" and nearly all hospital admissions and deaths are now among those who have not got their shots....
Although the risk of a child being admitted to hospital due to Covid-19 is small, a new UK study has found that around 1 in 20 children hospitalised with Covid developed brain or nerve complications linked to the viral infection....
