Addis Ababa, Sep 6 (SocialNews.XYZ) The number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in Africa reached 7,891,341 as of Sunday afternoon, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said. The Africa CDC, the specialized…
New Delhi, Sep 5 (SocialNews.XYZ) One of the world’s top epidemiologists admits he first heard about the pandemic outbreak in Wuhan more than two weeks before it was disclosed to global health bodies, Daily Mail…
Hyderabad, Sep 5 (SocialNews.XYZ) To give impetus to biopharmaceutical research and manufacturing, the Telangana government on Sunday announced that it is developing Biopharma Hub (B-hub), which will be first of its kind growth phase centre…
New Delhi, Sep 5 (SocialNews.XYZ) While Covid-19 is associated with higher mortality among patients who have co-morbidities, it is scarce among post-liver transplant recipients, finds a study led by Max Super Speciality Hospital, Saket. Typically,…
San Francisco, Sep 5 (SocialNews.XYZ) Google is all set to collaborate with researchers to develop new artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to improve brain stimulation devices to treat people with psychiatric illness and direct brain injuries,…
Jerusalem, Sep 5 (SocialNews.XYZ) Israel is planning to start preparations to administer a fourth dose of the coronavirus vaccine, ignoring the World Health Organisation’s call for a moratorium on boosters to help shift Covid vaccine…
Srinagar, Sep 5 (SocialNews.XYZ) Recoveries outpaced new cases in Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday where 115 recoveries and 110 new cases were reported during the last 24 hours without any Covid related death during the…
Bengaluru, Sep 5 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Karnataka government on Sunday issued guidelines for celebrating the Ganesh Chaturthi festival, according to which public celebration is permitted for a maximum of five days, starting September 10. Increasingly under…
Washington, Sep 5 (SocialNews.XYZ) The US has detected about 2,000 cases of the new Mu variant of Covid, media reports said. Early this week, the World Health Organisation (WHO) designated Mu or “B.1.621” as a…
Hyderabad, Sep 5 (SocialNews.XYZ) Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu on Sunday called for improving the doctor-population ratio in the country. He also underlined the need to improve the healthcare infrastructure and increase the number of…
Chennai, Sep 5 (SocialNews.XYZ) Tamil Nadu is planning to organise 10,000 Covid vaccination camps on next Sunday to inoculate 20 lakh people on a single day, state Health minister Ma Subramanian said on Sunday. “We…
Shimla, Sep 5 (SocialNews.XYZ) With the demand for facemasks going up amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, 12,000 women of 1,500 self-help groups (SHGs) in 12 districts of Himachal Pradesh have stitched over 40 lakh masks through…
London, Sep 5 (SocialNews.XYZ) Sugar feeding prior to having an infected blood meal could protect a mosquito’s ability to get infected and transmit arboviruses such as Zika, dengue and chikungunya, according to a new study….
Thiruvananthapuram, Sep 5 (SocialNews.XYZ) After a 12-year-old boy succumbed to Nipah virus attack on Sunday, two health workers who were in contact with the boy are now under surveillance. State health minister Veena George, who…
Chennai, Sep 5 (SocialNews.XYZ) Tamil Nadu has stepped up fever surveillance at the borders after a 12-year-old boy from Kerala died due to Nipah on Sunday early morning. State health minister, Ma Subramanian told IANS,…
By Brij Khandelwal Agra, Sep 5 (SocialNews.XYZ) Half a dozen of state government officials were suspended in Uttar Pradesh’s Firozabad after an alarming surge in cases of Dengue, viral fever, and some “unspecified” ailment. Action…
London, Sep 5 (SocialNews.XYZ) The UK’s vaccine advisory body has declined to grant approval for inoculating healthy children aged 12-15 years citing lack of sufficient evidence, and has also ceded authority on the decision to…
Bhubaneswar, Sep 5 (SocialNews.XYZ) As many 805 persons, including 131 below 18 years have been infected with the Covid-19 during the past 24 hours in Odisha, officials said on Sunday. According to the state information…
By Mohammad Suaib Khan New Delhi, Sep 5 (SocialNews.XYZ) The ASHA workers in the national capital have been working round the clock, especially during these Covid pandemic times to help people in distress. But in…
London, Sep 5 (SocialNews.XYZ) The most recent common ancestor of sarbecoviruses — the family of coronaviruses to which SARS-CoV belongs — existed more than 21,000 years ago, nearly 30 times older than previous estimates, finds…