Monkeypox & Corona Updates

German biotechnology company BioNTech and US company Pfizer have started clinical trials of an Omicron-based Covid-19 vaccine candidate in healthy adults from 18 through 55 years of age, the companies have said. The trials would evaluate…
Read More...

A top virologist has warned against treating the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) as harmless “just because it will become endemic”, as is predicted by health experts around the world. The virologist, Aris Katzourakis, said in an article…
Read More...

France posted 501,635 new cases of coronavirus for the past 24 hours on Tuesday, a new daily record and the first time the headline number has surpassed half a million. The country is currently recording the highest daily infection rates…
Read More...

Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday said that the test positivity rate for coronavirus disease (Covid-19) has dipped by 20% in the last 10 days, indicating that the restrictions will soon be eased in the national capital.…
Read More...

India's daily tally of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) continued to see a downward trend on Tuesday after 255,874 infections were reported in the last 24 hours, according to the Union health ministry. The total cases in the country are…
Read More...

Testing people with Covid symptoms has been a pillar of the UK’s pandemic response, reducing transmission by identifying and isolating those with the virus. But to be effective, it relies on people with symptoms getting tested, which…
Read More...

Covid-19 infections, led by the Omicron variant, are expected to decline across the country by February 15, with a wide vaccination coverage having played a key role. An ANI report, quoting government sources, said vaccination helped…
Read More...

As the world grapples with the surge of the Omicron variant of Covid-19, the World Health Organization (WHO) director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday that globally the conditions are ideal for more strains to emerge.…
Read More...

India reported over three lakh new COVID-19 infections for the fifth straight day even though the caseload over the last 24 hours was eight per cent lower than a day before, data released by the government showed. Here are the top 10…
Read More...

A top World Health Organisation (WHO) official on Sunday said that while the Omicron variant is less severe than Delta, it is still a dangerous virus. WHO's technical lead on Covid-19, Maria van Kerkhove said that vaccination is…
Read More...