Geneva, March 30 (SocialNews.XYZ) The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday launched its first ever global guidelines to support women and newborns in the postnatal period — the first six weeks after birth. Worldwide, more…
Manila, March 30 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Philippines’ Department of Agriculture on Wednesday ordered stricter control and containment measures to stem the spread of bird flu amid outbreaks in four provinces. The agriculture department said the outbreaks…
Islamabad, March 30 (SocialNews.XYZ) Pakistan recorded 194 new Covid cases over the past 24 hours, the National Command and Operation Center (NCOC) said on Wednesday. With the new infections, the overall number of confirmed cases…
Washington, March 30 (SocialNews.XYZ) The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a fifth Covid-19 booster shot of Pfizer-BioNTech or the Moderna for people aged over 50 and some immunocompromised individuals. The FDA had previously…
Stockholm, March 30 (SocialNews.XYZ) A new Covid prophylactic from AstraZeneca has been authorised for use in Sweden. Evusheld has been licensed recently for prescription to individuals who, due to underlying medical conditions, have not developed…
New Delhi, March 30 (SocialNews.XYZ) In a significant development, India’s active Covid-19 caseload has declined to 14,704 after 707 days, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Wednesday. The active cases now constitute…
Sydney, March 30 (SocialNews.XYZ) Daily Covid-19 cases in the Australian states of Victoria and New South Wales (NSW) surged on Wednesday as the highly transmissible Omicron BA.2 sub-variant continues to spread. NSW reported 25,235 new…
Wellington, March 30 (SocialNews.XYZ) New Zealand reported 15,918 new community cases of Covid-19 on Wednesday, the Ministry of Health said in a statement. There are also 14 new deaths due to Covid in the country,…
Washington, March 30 (SocialNews.XYZ) The global coronavirus caseload has topped 484.9 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 6.13 million and vaccinations to over 10.90 billion, according to the Johns Hopkins University. In…
Los Angeles, March 30 (SocialNews.XYZ) The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended certain immunocompromised individuals and people over the age of 50 to get another mRNA Covid-19 booster at least 4…
Bijnor, March 30 (SocialNews.XYZ) Residents of villages in Uttar Pradesh’s Bijnor district, having a population of at least 5000, will now get the facility of outdoor gyms. The administration has shortlisted as mamy as 102…
Los Angeles, March 30 (SocialNews.XYZ) The BA.2 sub-lineage of the Omicron variant has become the dominant strain in the United States, according to new data released by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…
New Delhi, March 30 (SocialNews.XYZ) Union Minister of State for Health Bharati Pawar on Tuesday said as per the National Mental Health Survey 2016, conducted by National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences, Bengaluru…
Gurugram, March 30 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Gurugram Traffic Police on Tuesday created a 19-km long green corridor for two ambulances from Artemis Hospital in Gurugram to the Gurugram-Delhi border on the national highway to facilitate the…
New Delhi, March 29 (SocialNews.XYZ) The government has fixed trade margins of over 40 costly cancer drugs following which their prices have come down significantly, the Parliament was told on Tuesday. “We had to import…
New Delhi, March 29 (SocialNews.XYZ) Minister for Health and Family Welfare Mansukh Mandaviya on Tuesday said other countries of the world look at India as a leader in the health sector after “we handled the…
New Delhi, March 29 (SocialNews.XYZ) While the menace of substandard and falsified (SF) medical products is not new in India, such incidents saw a significant increase during the Covid-19 pandemic – rising by 47 per…
Thiruvananthapuram, March 29 (SocialNews.XYZ) Kerala on Tuesday reported 424 new Covid cases while the test positivity rate came down to 2.38 per cent, Health Minister Veena George said. No fresh Covid deaths were reported, and…
Mumbai, March 29 (SocialNews.XYZ) Healthtech AI platform Qure.ai (Qure) on Tuesday announced it has secured $40 million in a funding round led by Novo Holdings and HealthQuad, along with existing investor MassMutual Ventures. Qure.ai offers…
Sao Paulo, March 29 (SocialNews.XYZ) Ultra-processed foods are having a negative impact on the diversity of plant species available for human consumption while also damaging human and planetary health, according to a commentary published in…