Covid-19 News

About one in 10 women who acquire COVID-19 infection during pregnancy are likely to suffer longer from long-term COVID symptoms like fatigue, gastrointestinal issues, and feeling drained in routine life, finds a study.

US Vice President Kamala Harris' husband Doug Emhoff recently tested positive for Covid-19, the latter's office has announced.

Bharat Biotech has added the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) as co-owner of the Covid-19 vaccine patent.

Pregnant women who have been vaccinated against Covid-19 are at lower risk of having a caesarean section or experiencing hypertension, a new study said on Friday.

EPFO offers several schemes, including the Employees' Provident Funds Scheme and the Employees' Pension Scheme.

India played a key role in helping countries agree to the adoption of International Health Regulations (IHR 2005) at the 77th World Health Assembly (WHA) to protect against future pandemics, said Apurva Chandra, Union Health Secretary on Sunday.

The Unified Payments Interface (UPI) facility played a significant role in India's fight against the Covid-19 pandemic, even as several prosperous countries faced problems, Prime Minister Narendra Modi told IANS on Monday.

Covid-19 cut global life expectancy by almost two years when it raged from 2019 to 2021, wiping out a decade of progress, the World Health Organization said Friday.

The so-called FLiRT variants of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that cause COVID-19 have been the dominant forms of the virus circulating this year globally, according to the World Health Organization

US President Joe Biden made another apparent gaffe during his speech at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's (NAACP) Fight for Freedom Fund Dinner in Detroit on Sunday.

AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine, made in collaboration with Oxford University has been found to raise the risk of vaccine-induced immune thrombocytopenia and thrombosis (VITT) -- a rare but fatal blood clotting disorder, claimed researchers today.

The Serum Institute - which manufactured the Covishield COVID-19 vaccine developed by British pharma giant AstraZeneca - stressed on Wednesday that all its product packaging had "disclosed all rare to very rare side-effects", including TTS.

AstraZeneca, a British pharmaceutical giant, has admitted that its Covid-19 vaccine can result ina rare side effectknown as Thrombosis with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome (TTS).T

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said that the perception of people living abroad had changed after seeing how India handled the COVID-19 pandemic and that the country's lunar mission 'Chandrayaan-3' had a huge impact on Indians living abroad.

US-based Cognizant and India's Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys, HCLTech and Wipro, are moving into smaller cities due to cost efficiency, government incentives and availability of talent.

About one in 10 women who acquire COVID-19 infection during pregnancy are likely to suffer longer from long-term COVID symptoms like fatigue, gastrointestinal issues, and feeling drained in routine life, finds a study.

US Vice President Kamala Harris' husband Doug Emhoff recently tested positive for Covid-19, the latter's office has announced.

Bharat Biotech has added the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) as co-owner of the Covid-19 vaccine patent.

Pregnant women who have been vaccinated against Covid-19 are at lower risk of having a caesarean section or experiencing hypertension, a new study said on Friday.

EPFO offers several schemes, including the Employees' Provident Funds Scheme and the Employees' Pension Scheme.

India played a key role in helping countries agree to the adoption of International Health Regulations (IHR 2005) at the 77th World Health Assembly (WHA) to protect against future pandemics, said Apurva Chandra, Union Health Secretary on Sunday.

The Unified Payments Interface (UPI) facility played a significant role in India's fight against the Covid-19 pandemic, even as several prosperous countries faced problems, Prime Minister Narendra Modi told IANS on Monday.

Covid-19 cut global life expectancy by almost two years when it raged from 2019 to 2021, wiping out a decade of progress, the World Health Organization said Friday.

The so-called FLiRT variants of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that cause COVID-19 have been the dominant forms of the virus circulating this year globally, according to the World Health Organization

US President Joe Biden made another apparent gaffe during his speech at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's (NAACP) Fight for Freedom Fund Dinner in Detroit on Sunday.

AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine, made in collaboration with Oxford University has been found to raise the risk of vaccine-induced immune thrombocytopenia and thrombosis (VITT) -- a rare but fatal blood clotting disorder, claimed researchers today.

The Serum Institute - which manufactured the Covishield COVID-19 vaccine developed by British pharma giant AstraZeneca - stressed on Wednesday that all its product packaging had "disclosed all rare to very rare side-effects", including TTS.

AstraZeneca, a British pharmaceutical giant, has admitted that its Covid-19 vaccine can result ina rare side effectknown as Thrombosis with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome (TTS).T

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said that the perception of people living abroad had changed after seeing how India handled the COVID-19 pandemic and that the country's lunar mission 'Chandrayaan-3' had a huge impact on Indians living abroad.

US-based Cognizant and India's Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys, HCLTech and Wipro, are moving into smaller cities due to cost efficiency, government incentives and availability of talent.