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Study finds link between computer access, mental health among young people
The findings of the study were published in Scientific Reports. The...
Global COVID cases will increase in coming months, but at a slower pace -report
The increase in cases is not expected to cause a surge in deaths,...
Traders brace for third Covid wave as Omicron cases rise in Delhi
"We will soon be asking all our traders to enforce Covid protocols in their shops. In the last 10 days, there has been visible decrease in footfalls in the market. The business is slowing down due to the increasing cases of Omicron in the city," said Sanjay Bhargava,...
The five-day office week isn’t coming back. WFH is here to stay
A fundamental and lasting shift toward teleworking would have significant implications for the structure of economies, from productivity to worker rights and childcare provision There may be no going back to the five-day week in the office, according to a survey of...
Omicron cases doubling in 1.5-3 days in areas with local spread: WHO
The WHO warned that with cases rising so rapidly, hospitals could be overwhelmed in some places The Omicron coronavirus variant has been reported in 89 countries and the number of cases is doubling in 1.5 to 3 days in areas with community transmission, the World...
WHO lists 9th COVID-19 vaccine Covovax for emergency use
The vaccine, Covovax, is produced by the Serum Institute of India, under licence from Novavax, and will now be part of the COVAX facility portfolio, boosting efforts to vaccinate more people in lower-income countries. WHO Assistant-Director General for Access to...
CDC advisory prefers Pfizer , Moderna Covid vaccines over J&J shot
The CDC's advisers said Thursday that it was time to recognize a lot has changed since vaccines began rolling out a year ago. More than 200 million Americans are considered fully vaccinated, including about 16 million who got the J&J shot Most Americans should be...
Refugees lack COVID shots because drugmakers fear lawsuits
So far there is scant information on COVID vaccine litigation, but claims made to out-of-court compensation programmes are one measure of the risk. A programme in the United States has so far not paid out anything, public data show; neither has one set up by the WHO...
Global community steps up with $93 billion support package to boost resilient recovery in World’s poorest countries
The funds will be delivered to the world’s 74 poorest countries under the 20th replenishment (IDA20) program, which focuses on helping countries recover from the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis. In these countries, the ongoing pandemic is worsening poverty, undermining...
US health tab hit $4T as gov’t opened spigot to fight COVID
The $4.1 trillion tab for 2020 represents an increase of about $365 billion from national health spending in 2019. It works out to $12,530 per person Washington:U.S. health care spending rocketed to $4.1 trillion last year as Congress opened the spigot of federal...
Omicron thrives in airways, not lungs; new data on asymptomatic cases
"By infecting many more people, a very infectious virus may cause more severe disease and death even though the virus itself may be less pathogenic. Therefore, taken together with our recent studies showing that the Omicron variant can partially escape immunity from...
Ayush Ministry’s recommendation on ‘holistic health’ for Covid, long Covid
"COVID-19 is an evolving disease, characterised by the development of sequelae to the primary disease known as post-Covid syndrome and long COVID-19. It has been observed that patients recovering from SARS-CoV-2 suffer from persistent and often, debilitating symptoms...