New York: US Researchers have identified a shift that occurs in canine Coronavirus that may provide clues as to how it transmits from animals to humans. A new canine coronavirus was first identified in two Malaysian human patients who developed pneumonia in 2017-18. A group of other scientists isolated the canine coronavirus, sequenced it, and published […]
Blending traditions with modernity can throw up a new set of solutions and lead to new endeavours. While it is laudable to promote traditional systems of medicine that have wide public acceptance, there is a need to develop a mechanism to authenticate the product quality and regulate this sector so that it conforms to the […]
By Pramod K Nayar When Sue Coe, a celebrated artist known for her activist-art against animal cruelty in works like Factory Pharm (2001), set out to capture the horrors of Covid-19, she did so with a realism that can only be termed traumatic. What Coe does is to align human suffering from the virus with the history […]
The virtual collapse of the Sri Lankan economy comes as a wake-up call for the south Asian region with many nations battling similar woes and being sucked into the vortex of unmanageable debt. Colombo’s crisis has been in the making for more than a decade, largely due to the country’s excessive dependence on imports and […]
Mumbai: It’s official. The first case of coronavirus variant Omicron XE has been detected in Mumbai, and confirmed by the NCDC, Delhi, officials said on Saturday. The infectee is a 67-year-old male who had travelled from Mumbai to Gujarat’s Vadodara, where he suffered from mild fever on March 12. His samples were sent for genome […]
New Delhi: Inflation and unemployment are the main concerns of Indians at the moment rather than a non-ending sequence of new variants thrown by the deadly Coronavirus. This was revealed in a comprehensive survey conducted by CVoter for IANS on the occasion of World Health Day on Thursday. The survey, conducted immediately after the reported […]
With several parts of the world witnessing a renewed surge in Covid infections, it is time for India to be vigilant without pushing the panic button. There is a need for greater disease surveillance and genomic sequencing to identify the new variants of the coronavirus and ramping up health infrastructure to handle exigencies. Testing, tracking, […]
Hyderabad: A development that has the potential to trigger yet another Covid crisis, the Israeli Health Ministry on Thursday has reported an entirely new strain of coronavirus, a combination of BA1 and BA 2 strains of Omicron, which has never been reported elsewhere in world. Although more details on the virulence and transmissibility of the […]
New Delhi: Unfortunately, the widespread coronavirus pandemic has ruled our lives for the past two years. The constant arrival of new variants is posing demanding challenges for organisations and posing difficult scenarios for them to resume full-fledged operations. Expecting the workplace to return to their daily office routine is akin to wishing for a life […]
Hyderabad: There are worrying signs on the horizon, as countries in Europe and Asia are now grappling with the rise of a new sub-lineage of BA 2 Omicron variant of the coronavirus, which has been unofficially christened as BA 2.2. After enduring the Omicron driven Covid wave in the months of December and January, largely […]
