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Hyderabad: Densely populated urban cities have remained the main drivers of Covid-19 infections during the first and second waves. Although it is still in early stages, the Omicron-driven Covid-19 third wave is also on the same path with Hyderabad and its surrounding districts leading the daily new Covid-19 infections. Similar to the earlier two waves […]
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Kolkata: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president Sourav Ganguly was on Friday discharged from hospital here after testing negative for the new variant of Covid-19, Omicron. According to doctors, the former India captain had mild symptoms of Covid-19 and is doing fine and would stay in home isolation. The 49-year-old Ganguly, […]
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Hyderabad: Emerging Telugu actor Vishwak Sen tested positive for Covid-19 on Friday. He put up a post on his social media handle stating that he has isolated himself after testing positive for the virus. “Hi all, I have tested positive for Covid-19. I have isolated myself and followed all safety protocols under the advice of […]
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Hyderabad: Medicover Hospitals, as part of its efforts to contain the Covid-19 pandemic, will conduct a mega vaccination drive at Hitex, Exhibition Hall 2, Madhapur, from 8 am on January 3, 2022 for youngsters aged between 15 years and 18 years, a press release said. Executive Director, Medicover Hospitals, Harikrishna said, “Many people are losing […]
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Though the magnitude of the loss is not as big as that of in 2020, the megabucks industry is still limping back to normal.
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Hyderabad: The Cyberabad Traffic Police branch will be intensifying its drunken driving checks across all important areas of the city today on the eve of New Year. The police will be setting up check-posts to conduct checks on motorists. Cyberabad Police took to Twitter requesting people not to drink and drive. There will be extra […]
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Hyderabad: Bharat Biotech International Limited (BBIL), on Thursday announced that BBV152 (Covaxin), its whole-virion inactivated COVID-19 vaccine candidate, has proven to be safe, well-tolerated, and immunogenic in paediatric subjects in phase II/III study. Bharat Biotech had conducted phase II/III, open-label, and multicenter studies to evaluate the safety, reactogenicity, and immunogenicity of Covaxin in healthy children […]
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Hyderabad: Another year has almost passed in the pandemic and Hyderabadis are feeling optimistic about stepping into 2022. Hoping this is the last year they hear of Covid-19 and its new variants, youngsters are planning to celebrate New Year’s Eve with close friends and family at home, fearful of catching Omicron. Although the State government […]
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The 29-year-old actor said the virus has hit her "real hard" and she has been bedridden for a few days.
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Toronto: If your older child is learning remotely, it may increase the risk of depression in them as a new study suggests that higher levels of electronic learning time is associated with increased levels of depression and anxiety. The study indicated that in older children and youth, higher levels of TV or digital media time […]
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New Delhi: Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain on Thursday said that, Omicron Covid variant has gradually started to spread in the community. People with no travel history have also tested positive for Omicron, he added. Forty-six per cent of total 115 samples sequenced so far in Delhi have tested positive for it. “According to latest […]
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Hyderabad: The Corbevax vaccine for Covid-19, which recently received Emergency Use Authorisation (EUA) from Indian drug regulators and is being manufactured by Hyderabad-based pharma giant Biological E Limited, has a direct link to top vaccine researchers of United States, who had created, engineered and technology-transferred the vaccine without any patents or strings attached. Led by […]
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New Delhi: While the phrase “now more than ever” was the one mostly searched and used in 2020, it was the turn of “new normal” amid the Covid-19 pandemic that was used the most in 2021, according to Google. Google’s ‘Ngrams’ tool (launched in 2009 by part of the Google Books team) has revealed how […]
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Washington: Amid the global surge of the Omicron variant of COVID-19, almost 3,000 flights have been cancelled and more than 11,500 flights have been delayed worldwide on Tuesday. A total of 2,969 flight cancellations and 11,512 flight delays worldwide on Tuesday, with 1,172 of the cancellations and 5,458 of the delays occurring within, into, or […]
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Hyderabad: SBI Foundation has associated with CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) to set up the SBI Foundation Centre of Excellence for Genomics Guided Pandemic Prevention to strengthen India’s genome sequencing capabilities. Dinesh Khara, chairman, SBI inaugurated the CoE and handed over a cheque of Rs 9.94 crore to Dr Vinay Kumar Nandicoori, director, […]
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Nalgonda: Shop owners at SPT Market, the biggest textile market in the district, downed shutters on Tuesday and staged a dharna protesting against the Centre’s decision to hike GST on textiles to 12 per cent from the present five per cent. They participated in the protest demonstration under the aegis of Nalgonda District Cloth Merchants […]
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New Delhi: India registered 6,358 fresh Covid cases in a span of 24 hours, the Union ministry of Health and Family welfare said on Tuesday. As many as 293 deaths were also recorded pushing the death toll to 4,80,290. Meanwhile, the Omicron infection tally has risen to 653 across the nation. However, of the total […]
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Kolkata: BCCI president and former India captain Sourav Ganguly has been admitted to a city hospital after testing positive for COVID-19, the cricket board sources said on Tuesday. Ganguly is double vaccinated and has been travelling extensively, taking part in all professional activities. The 49-year-old was rushed to a hospital late on Monday night as […]
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Hyderabad: Telangana reported 182 new Covid infections and one fatality on Monday taking the cumulative number of deaths to 4023 and the total number of positive cases so far to 6,80,844. The number of active cases in Telangana, as on Monday, was 3,417. The authorities on Monday conducted 37,839 Covid tests of which results of […]
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Hyderabad: A total of 12 persons, which includes 10 international passengers who arrived at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA), Shamshabad, and two close contacts, have tested positive for Omicron variant on Monday. With this, the total number of Omicron variant Covid-19 infections in Telangana has reached 55 out of which 4 individuals were close contacts […]
