COVID 19

New Delhi: Scientists at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) are developing a new heat-tolerant vaccine that can offer protection against different strains of SARS-CoV-2 both current and future variants.This comes even as the country…

New York: A team of US scientists has discovered a potential intranasal vaccine candidate that provides improved, longer-lasting immunity against SARS-CoV-2 viruses compared to when given as an injection.By triggering an immune response…

The BA.2.86, a subvariant of the Omicron variant of Covid-19, can infect human cells that line the lower lung and engage in virus-host cell membrane fusion more efficiently -- two features linked to severe disease symptoms, researchers gave…

New Delhi: The Union Health Ministry on Tuesday said the country reported 475 new Covid-19 cases and six deaths in the last 24 hours.The six new fatalities were reported from Karnataka, Chhattisgarh and Assam, according to the ministry…

New Delhi: The Union Health Ministry on Sunday said that India reported 756 new Covid-19 cases and five deaths in the last 24 hours.The five new fatalities were reported from Maharashtra, Kerala and Jammu & Kashmir, according to the…

New York: Scientists have identified compounds that obstruct the "landing gear" of a range of harmful viruses can successfully protect against infection by the virus that causes Covid-19If the compound, called a stapled lipopeptide,…

New Delhi: India has reported 774 new Covid-19 cases and two deaths in the last 24 hours, confirmed the Union Health Ministry on Saturday.According to the ministry data, the two new fatalities were reported from Tamil Nadu and Gujarat.…

New Delhi: India on Friday recorded 761 new Covid-19 cases and 12 deaths in the past 24 hours, the Union Health Ministry said.A dozen new fatalities -- five from Kerala, four from Karnataka, two from Maharashtra, and one from UP -- were…

New York: Many hospitals across several US states have brought back the mask mandates, even as the country is seeing a fresh wave of Covid-19 cases, driven by the highly transmissible JN.1 variant, as well as flu.The Centers for Disease…

Washington: Long Covid played a part in 3,544 deaths in the US from January 2020 till the end of June 2022, according to a report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).Long Covid deaths represented less than 1 percent…

New Delhi: India on Thursday has recorded 760 new Covid-19 cases and two deaths in the past 24 hours, said the Union health ministry.Two new fatalities have been reported one each from Kerala and Karnataka in the span of 24 hours,…

Bhubaneswar: There have been two Covid JN. 1 variant positives detected in Odisha, said reliable reports in this regard.On Wednesday five more Covid positives in Odisha were detected said reliable reports of the Health and Family…

Lucknow: A 63-year-old woman, who had tested positive for Covid, succumbed to the virus during treatment at SGPGIMS.The woman died on Wednesday. This marks the first Covid-related death among patients in the state this year.Dr Manoj…

New Delhi: India has recorded 602 new Covid-19 infections in the past 24 hours, pushing the the total number of active cases to 4,440 on Wednesday.The country had recorded 865 new cases on May 19.Five new fatalities -- one each from…

New Delhi: Health authorities in the UK have identified anxiety and trouble in sleeping as new symptoms of the latest Covid-19 sub-variant JN.1, according to a report.JN.1, from the lineage of Omicron, was first detected in August and…