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New Delhi: Even as reports emerge of a Mumbai-based Bollywood costume designer becoming India’s first person to test positive for the new Covid XE variant, here are a few things to know about the variant. The World Health Organisation (WHO) had last week issued a warning against a new mutant that may be more transmissible […]

Hyderabad: Vaccine maker Biological E Limited (BE) announced that it has been selected as a recipient of mRNA technology from the World Health Organisation (WHO) technology transfer hub. After examining a number of proposals from India, the World Health Organisation’s Advisory Committee on Vaccine Product Development (ACPDV) selected Biological E Limited as a recipient of […]

Geneva: The World Health Organisation (WHO) has issued a warning against a new mutant ‘XE’ variant of Omicron, that may be more transmissible than any strain of Covid-19 seen before. This new variant is a recombinant strain, meaning it is a mutant hybrid of the two previous versions of the Omicron variant, BA.1 and BA.2, […]

Mercury occurs naturally in the earth’s crust, but human activities, such as mining and fossil fuel combustion, have led to widespread global mercury pollution. Mercury emitted into the air eventually settles into water or onto land where it can be washed into water.

New Delhi : A day after the Government of India signed an agreement with World Health Organization for establishing the WHO Global Centre for Traditional Medicine in Jamnagar, Gujarat, Prime Minister Narendra Modi hailed the move saying it will contribute towards making a healthier planet and leveraging the country’s rich traditional practices for global good. […]

Hyderabad: It was in March two years ago that the first Covid-19 positive infection in Telangana was reported and a few days later, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared Covid-19 as a pandemic, capable of circulating across the globe, infecting large swathes of the population and claiming lives in its wake. Since March 2, 2020, […]

Hyderabad: Hyderabad-based vaccine maker Biological E Limited (BE) has priced its Corbevax, which has got approval for administration to adolescents aged 12 to 14 years, at Rs 800 (excluding GST) per dose for the private market, and Rs 145 per dose for the government, making it the cheapest vaccine in India and also globally, the […]

New York: Scientists at the University of Texas have developed a vaccine that could protect against the deadly Nipah virus in just three days. Nipah is a zoonotic virus (transmitted from animals to humans), which can be spread through contaminated food or directly between humans on exposure to secretions. The virus had three outbreaks in […]

Geneva: Being able to obtain safe abortion is crucial for women and girls, said the World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday. Only around half of all abortions take place under appropriate and safe conditions, while unsafe abortions cause around 39,000 deaths every year and result in millions more women hospitalised with complications. Most of these […]

The latest global report on the state of air pollution has an ominous warning for India. Nearly 93% of the country’s population is living in areas where PM2.5 (Particulate Matter of 2.5 micrometre diameter) pollution levels are worse than even the lowest bracket of the World Health Organization’s new air quality standards. Contrary to the […]

Hyderabad: In response to the Covid pandemic, while the scientific achievements have been absolutely outstanding such as vaccines in less than a year and a lot of progress on diagnostics, self-test kits and antivirals, technology, and the genomic surveillance, which has allowed to track the evolution of the virus, but global coordination and harmony was […]

Geneva: Even as Covid cases are decreasing and several countries lifting restrictions, testing and surveillance of the virus is also on the decline, which is a major cause of concern, said a World Health Organisation official. WHO epidemiologist Maria Van Kerkhove said that monitoring the virus remains critical, the Washington Post reported. “We need to […]

Geneva: Amid concerns of increasing presence of the BA.2 subtype of Omicron variant in some European and Asian countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday reinforced that the BA.2 sublineage should continue to be considered a variant of concern. The WHO’s Technical Advisory Group on SARS-CoV-2 Virus Evolution (TAG-VE), which met on Tuesday said […]

Geneva: The BA.2 subvariant of Omicron is likely to spread globally, however it remains unclear whether it will cause reinfection among those infected with the original Omicron strain, according to the World Health Organisation. According to Maria Van Kerkhove, the WHO’s Covid-19 technical lead, the BA.2 subvariant, which is more contagious than the currently dominant […]

Geneva: On World Cancer Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) called for the gap in the availability of cancer care in high and low-income countries to be addressed. Globally, cancer is one of the leading causes of death, with an estimated 20 million people diagnosed and 10 million deaths from the disease in 2021, the […]

According to scientists from the Wuhan University in China, NeoCov can penetrate human cells in the same way as SARS-CoV-2.

Amid an ongoing resurgence across the world, the global coronavirus caseload has topped 333.5 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 5.55 million and vaccinations to over 9.68 billion, according to Johns Hopkins University.

Addis Ababa: After a six-week surge, Africa’s fourth wave of the Covid-19 pandemic driven primarily by the Omicron variant, is flattening, marking the shortest-lived surge to date in the continent where cumulative cases have now exceeded 10 million, the World Health Organization (WHO) said. Weekly cases having plateaued in the week ending on January 9, […]

Geneva: The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that current Covid-19 vaccines may need to be updated if they are to provide continued protection against emerging variants, including Omicron. WHO’s Technical Advisory Group on Covid-19 Vaccine Composition (TAG-CO-VAC), a group of 18 experts, on Tuesday said that although current vaccines provide a high level of […]

According to Hans Henri P Kluge, the WHO's Regional Director for Europe, Omicron variant can evade previous immunity in people.