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WHO updates its guidance on treatments for COVID-19
The experts say the new recommendations reflect changes in the...
45% phones carried Covid-19 virus during pandemic: Study
"You can wash your hands as many times as you want but as soon as...
China’s National Bureau of Statistics refuses to reveal number of deaths occurred in December, 2022: Report
The National Bureau of Statistics reported a total of 10.41 million deaths in 2022, averaging 867,500 deaths per month. The announced 59,938 COVID-19-related deaths over a month, showcased 7 per cent of 2022's monthly average deaths, which is in no way consistent with...
First Indian intranasal Covid-19 vaccine to be launched on Jan 26
Earlier, Bharat Biotech had announced that it would sell the intranasal vaccine for Rs 325 per shot for procurement by the government and Rs 800 per shot for private vaccination centres Homegrown vaccine for the lumpy skin disease in cattle, Lumpi-ProVacInd, is likely...
China’s GDP sinks to three per cent in 2022, second lowest in 50 years
Significantly this year, China's GDP in terms of dollars declined from USD 18 trillion in 2021 to USD 17.94 trillion last year mainly due to a sharp rise of the dollar against RMB (the Chinese currency) in 2022 The slow pace was blamed mainly on the strictly...
China’s population shrinks for the first time since 1961
The country had 1.41175 billion people at at the end of 2022, compared with 1.41260 billion a year earlier, China's National Bureau of Statistics said Men also continued to outnumber women by 722.06 million to 689.69 million, the bureau said, a result of the strict...
How anti-vaccine misinformation hampers the conversation about genuine vaccine injuries
In very rare cases though, vaccines can be linked to serious injuries and even death. Vaccine injuries (also often called adverse events) are a difficult area in which to carry out research or advocacy, partly because anti-vaccine communities persistently muddy the...
Covid cases in China touch 900 million,60,000 new coronavirus deaths in hospitals
A top Chinese epidemiologist has also warned that cases will surge in rural China over the lunar new year The peak of China's Covid wave is expected to last two to three months, added Zeng Guang, ex-head of the Chinese Center for Disease Control Some 900 million...
WHO backs mask wearing on long flights as new Omicron variant spreads
Passengers should be advised to wear masks in high-risk settings such as long-haul flights, said the WHO's senior emergency officer for Europe, Catherine Smallwood, adding: "this should be a recommendation issued to passengers arriving from anywhere where there is...
Covid infection reshapes immune status depending on gender: Study
The team led by John Tsang, an immunobiologist from Yale University, US, found that immune systems of men who had recovered from mild cases of COVID-19 responded more robustly to flu vaccines than women who had had mild cases or men and women who had never been...
China not to include Pfizer Inc’s Covid drug in its insurance scheme
Boxes of Paxlovid are changing hands for as much as 50,000 yuan ($7,313.15), more than 20 times the original price of 2,300 yuan, according to local media reports and social media posts. Beijing has been largely resistant to Western vaccines, but has greenlighted...
Around 75 pc of urban Indians expect life to be better in 2023: survey
A quarter of urban Indians (25 per cent) said the last few years since the pandemic has made them more balanced, the survey stated, adding that nearly a fifth (18 per cent) thought they have become more mindful since the pandemic, and one in eight (13 per cent) felt...