Johannesburg, Dec 8 (SocialNews.XYZ) Chairperson of the South African Medical Association (SAMA) said most patients infected with the Omicron variant of Covid-19 got mild symptoms, while the unvaccinated patients showed relatively severe symptoms. Angelique Cootze,…
Bengaluru, Dec 8 (SocialNews.XYZ) One of the German travellers who came to the KempeGowda International Airport (KIAL) in Bengaluru has been missing after testing positive in the RT-PCR test, sources in the Karnataka health department…
Johannesburg, Dec 8 (SocialNews.XYZ) Pfizer’s mRNA-based Covid vaccine may be up to 40 times less effective against the new super mutant Omicron variant, a small study led by South African researchers have shown. The emergence…
Koppal (Karnataka), Dec 8 (SocialNews.XYZ) In a miraculous turn of events, a woman, whose lungs were 96 per cent affected by coronavirus, has fully recovered from the infection after spending 104 days on a ventilator…
Harare, Dec 8 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Zimbabwean government has expressed deep concern at the growing number of Covid-19 cases in the country driven by the Omicron variant and plans to bar the unvaccinated from boarding public…
Visakhapatnam, Dec 8 (SocialNews.XYZ) Omicron scare gripped Andhra Pradesh’s Srikakulam district as authorities have sent samples of a man who recently returned from South Africa and tested positive for Covid-19 for genome sequencing. The man…
New Delhi, Dec 8 (SocialNews.XYZ) India reported 8,439 fresh Covid cases in the past 24 hours pushing the tally to 3,40,89,137, the Ministry of Health and Family welfare said on Wednesday morning. With an addition…
Patna, Dec 8 (SocialNews.XYZ) While the entire world is scared of Covid-19’s new variant Omicron, Bihar has no facility to conduct genome sequencing at the moment. A test lab of genome sequencing is available only…
Washington, Dec 8 (SocialNews.XYZ) The global coronavirus caseload has topped 267 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 5.27 million and vaccinations to over 8.24 billion, according to Johns Hopkins University. In its…
Paris, Dec 8 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Regional Health Agency of Provence-Alpes-Cote d’Azur has activated the “code white” alert in all hospitals in southern France, news television BFMTV has reported. Enshrined in French law in 2004, the…
Singapore, Dec 8 (SocialNews.XYZ) Singapore reported 715 new cases of Covid-19 on Tuesday, bringing the total tally in the country to 270,588. Of the new cases, 700 were in the community, five were in migrant…
Patna, Dec 8 (SocialNews.XYZ) After Arwal where Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, and actress Priyanka Chopra were listed as Covid vaccine beneficiaries, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, his Jharkhand counterpart Hemant…
Chennai, Dec 7 (SocialNews.XYZ) PMK founder-leader, Dr S. Ramadoss on Tuesday called upon the Tamil Nadu government to conduct a detailed probe into allegations of fake vaccination entries to jack up the figures. In a…
New Delhi, Dec 7 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Delhi High Court on Tuesday directed the Delhi Police to strictly enforce and follow all the Covid protocols on the ground while hearing a petition against the cops for…
New Delhi, Dec 7 (SocialNews.XYZ) To ensure smooth passage of international travellers arriving in India, the Centre on Tuesday mandated contactless self-declaration by them on the ‘Air Suvidha’ portal. The portal was launched in August…
Bengaluru, Dec 7 (SocialNews.XYZ) In a breakthrough in the fight against HIV infection, researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and their collaborators have identified a key role played by hydrogen sulphide (H2S) gas…
New Delhi, Dec 7 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Union Health Ministry has requested the Supreme Court for early listing and hearing of the matter on the EWS quota so that counselling for the NEET PG could start,…
New Delhi, Dec 7 (SocialNews.XYZ) Wearing a face mask is better than social distancing at preventing you from catching Covid, a study suggests, Daily Mail reported. Researchers found that donning a covering could lower the…
Tel Aviv, Dec 7 (SocialNews.XYZ) Israel-based RedHill Biopharma on Tuesday announced that its Covid pill Opaganib is expected to be unaffected by mutations associated with Omicron and other known Coronavirus’ variants of concern. Studies on…
Panaji, Dec 7 (SocialNews.XYZ) Even as Goa health authorities have sent samples of five sailors suspected of being infected with Omicron to a Pune laboratory for genome sequencing, a simultaneous effort is underway to track…