The World Health Organization (WHO), national regulatory authorities and vaccine manufacturers in WHO South-East Asia Region discussed fast-tracking of Covid-19 vaccine rollout in member countries. "The vaccine manufacturing and regulatory sectors have a critical role to play...
"Here Today, Here Tomorrow" is a pandemic-inspired fiction title -- comprising of four alternative stories of the future -- and a fifth by a 16-year-old invitee. The short stories explore forces that will surely impact the future, but the intensities of which are difficult to predict. Health routines, changing ...
Loss of smell and taste are common in people who have Covid-19 infections and now a new study found that these symptoms often occur before other symptoms, like fever or shortness of breath. According to the study, published in the journal Neurology, almost two-thirds of ...
The advocate for the Chennai volunteer for Serum Institute of India's Covishield vaccine trial said his client has not agreed to the Pune-based vaccine maker Serum Institute of India's suggestion of withdrawing the legal notice issued earlier. "The Serum Institute's advocate had told us to withdraw our legal notice to the...
The Goa Health Ministry has not been consulted vis-a-vis allowing Covid-19 positive persons to vote in the upcoming zilla panchayat polls, Health Minister Vishwajit Rane said on Wednesday. Asked to comment by the mediapersons over the state Election Commission's ...
A young couple from Indore in Madhya Pradesh has travelled nearly 200 km to state capital Bhopal to volunteer for the administration of coronavirus vaccine under third-phase trial at an institute here. Their selfless act comes amid the shortage of volunteers for the pioneering ...
Australia registered 15 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, taking its total caseload to 27,987, according to the latest data released on the Department of Health's website on Tuesday. The death toll in the country stood at 908, while active cases now reached 1,433 ...
Amid a continuing second wave of the coronavirus pandemic, Canada reported 6,261 new confirmed cases in the last 24 hours, increasing the nationwide tally to 415,182. Besides the new cases on Sunday, the country also registered 76 additional ...
Researchers have found that Covid-19 pandemic has led to a decrease in hospital-wide Hepatitis C (HCV) testing by 50 per cent, and a reduction in new HCV diagnoses by more than 60 per cent. The study, published in the Journal of Primary Care and Community Health,...
Serum Institute of India (SII) has applied for emergency use authorization of the first Made in India Covid-19 vaccine, Covishield. "As promised, before the end of 2020, @SerumInstIndia has applied for emergency use authorisation for the first made-in-India vaccine, COVISHIELD. This will ...
