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The major worry with the new UK variant is that it is 70 percent more transmissible than the existing strains.

Using term 'Indian variant' for B.1.617 strain has no basis: Health...

The WHO also said it does not identify viruses or variants with names of countries they are first reported from

12 May 2021 10:07 PM IST

People sit in the observation area after being inoculated with a dose of the Covaxin vaccine against the Covid-19 coronavirus at a vaccination centre in Manipal Hospital in Bangalore on June 18, 2021. (Manjunath Kiran / AFP)

Will receive EUL for Covaxin from WHO at earliest, says Bharat Biotech

The indigenous vaccine showed 63.6 per cent efficacy against the Delta variant of Covid-19

13 July 2021 8:36 AM IST

The SARS-CoV-2 virus has RNA as its genetic material. (Photo: Representational/PTI)

WHO to revive probe into COVID-19 origins, report says

The world health body is assembling a team of 20 scientists to hunt for new evidence

27 Sept 2021 8:55 AM IST

Medical staff members tend to a Covid-19 patient at the intensive care unit of Cremona hospital, in Cremona, northern Italy. (Photo: AFP)

COVID-19 cases rose by more than 50%, deaths stable, says WHO

Last week, WHO noted a pandemic record high of 9.5 million new infections in a single week

12 Jan 2022 4:40 PM IST

The concern specifically includes on how the statistical model projects estimates for a country of geographical size and population of India and also fits in with other countries which have smaller population. (Representational image: PTI)

India questions WHO's methodology to estimate COVID-19 mortalities

India has shared its concerns with the methodology along with other member states through a series of formal...

17 April 2022 10:51 AM IST

AA EDIT | WHO reform urgent need after poor Covid handling

There have been calls for the reform of the healthcare arm of the United Nations for quite some time

13 May 2022 11:03 PM IST

People wearing face masks as a precautionary measure after cases of COVID-19 sub-variant JN.1 were detected in the country, at a hospital in Chikkamagaluru, Sunday, Dec. 24, 2023. (PTI Photo)

Chandrakant Lahariya | New variant of Covid-19, JN.1, is here, but no...

JN.1 is not a new virus but a sub-variant of BA.86, which itself is a subvariant of the Omicron variant of SARS CoV2.

26 Dec 2023 11:50 PM IST

Some 60 per cent of Indians who still depend financially on farming struggle with debt, bankruptcy and endemic suicide. (Representational Image/ DC File)

Mohan Guruswamy | Suicides are no indication of India's farmers'...

Suicide is a matter of psychology, and not of economics no matter how tempting that may be to exaggerate an issue

9 May 2023 12:05 AM IST

We discovered that a specific protein, thrombospondin-2 (TSP2), is elevated in wounds of patients with diabetes. (Photo: Pixabay)

Married couples share the risk of diabetes: Study

A man, whose wife had a BMI of 30, had a 21 per cent higher risk of developing diabetes than men whose wives had a BMI...

23 May 2018 5:29 PM IST

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World faces 'staggering' obesity challenge: Study

These numbers underline the staggering challenge the world will face in the future in terms of numbers of people who are...

23 May 2018 12:54 PM IST

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10 die in India outbreak of brain-damaging virus, spurring rush to...

The rare virus is spread by fruit bats.

23 May 2018 9:38 AM IST

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Low-quality trials behind popular diabetes combo pills in India

The concerning findings of this study suggests that Indian patients show explore other options for treating the health...

14 March 2018 3:34 PM IST