New York, July 27 (SocialNews.XYZ) The origin of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2019 was at the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan, China, and resulted from multiple spillover events of the SARS-CoV-2 virus jumping from…
New Delhi, July 27 (SocialNews.XYZ) India reported 18,313 new Covid cases in the last 24 hours, a rise from the previous day’s count of 14,830, said the Union Health Ministry on Wednesday. In the same…
Kampala, July 27 (SocialNews.XYZ) The World Health Organization (WHO) has donated 2,400 monkeypox test kits to Uganda to help with the African country’s response to the infectious disease. WHO Representative to Uganda Yonas Tegegn Woldemariam…
Wellington, July 27 (SocialNews.XYZ) New Zealand recorded 8,730 new community cases of Covid, the Ministry of Health said on Wednesday. There are now a total of 1,427 deaths confirmed as attributable to Covid, either as…
Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh), July 27 (SocialNews.XYZ) Fifty-two years after he was charged with the alleged kidnapping of dacoit-turned-politician Phoolan Devi in 1980 and the murder of her paramour, Chheda Singh passed away at the Sefai…
New Delhi, July 27 (SocialNews.XYZ) A group of HIV patients from last few days have been protesting before the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) office in Delhi over the shortage of crucial anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs…
New Delhi, July 26 (SocialNews.XYZ) Delhi on Tuesday reported a major rise in fresh Covid cases in the last 24 hours, at 781 against 463 reported the previous day, while there were two more deaths,…
New Delhi, July 26 (SocialNews.XYZ) There is no provision to accommodate or transfer medical students from any foreign medical institutes to Indian medical colleges, the Parliament was told on Tuesday. “There are no such provisions…
Bhubaneswar, July 26 (SocialNews.XYZ) The opposition BJP and the Congress in Odisha Assembly on Tuesday slammed the state government for outbreak of cholera in the tribal district of Rayagada. The Opposition members urged the Speaker…
Srinagar, July 26 (SocialNews.XYZ) Covid infections continued to surge in J&K on Tuesday as 697 new cases were reported during the last 24 hours. Officials said that of the new cases, 281 were from the…
Washington, July 26 (SocialNews.XYZ) Many countries, including the US, are not doing enough to contain monkeypox, which can spiral into a large-scale global outbreak, an infectious disease epidemiologist warned. The viral disease, once centred to…
Hyderabad, July 26 (SocialNews.XYZ) Samples collected from a man with suspected symptoms of monkeypox were found to be negative, a top Telangana health official said on Tuesday. “The samples sent to the National Institute of…
London, July 26 (SocialNews.XYZ) Even a single lesion may also signal infection from the monkeypox virus, especially if the individual has had a new sexual partner recently, according to officials at the UK Health Security…
New Delhi, July 26 (SocialNews.XYZ) While monkeypox virus has been detected in about 75 countries in just three months, it may not spread as fast as SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind Covid-19, a US infectious disease…
New York, July 26 (SocialNews.XYZ) Covid virus has adapted to evade antiviral proteins called interferons that are important front-line defence of the innate immune system, according to a study. While the adaptive arm of the…
Hyderabad, July 26 (SocialNews.XYZ) Mild Covid-19 infection or asymptomatic infection can be a misleading occurrence and the after-effects may last even for years, said doctors involved in treating Covid patients. Over 90 per cent of…
Patna, July 26 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Bihar Health Department detected a suspected case of monkeypox in Patna’s Gurhatta locality on Tuesday. The victim is a woman and a team of health officials have collected her samples…
New Delhi, July 26 (SocialNews.XYZ) Diagnostic company Genes2Me on Tuesday announced that they have developed a real-time PCR-based kit for monkeypox virus. The company claimed that its POX-Q Multiplexed RT-PCR kit produces results in less…
Canberra, July 26 (SocialNews.XYZ) The number of Australians hospitalised due to Covid-19 has reached the highest number since the start of the pandemic in early 2020. According to data from the Department of Health, there…
Lucknow, July 26 (SocialNews.XYZ) The prosthodontics department at King George’s Medical University (KGMU) has got a patent for a device it made for accurately measuring the gap between upper and lower jaw. This will help…