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Colombo, Aug 13 : Dengue fever has killed seven people so far this year in Sri Lanka, while the number of infected persons increased to 21,000, health officials here said.Most recently, over 300 confirmed dengue cases were reported and over 90 of the…

Colombo, Aug 13 : Dengue fever has killed seven people so far this year in Sri Lanka, while the number of infected persons increased to 21,000, health officials here said.Most recently, over 300 confirmed dengue cases were reported and over 90 of the…

Washington, Aug 13 : The global coronavirus caseload has topped 205.3 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 4.33 million and vaccinations soared to over 4.57 billion, according to the Johns Hopkins University.In its latest update on Frid…

San Francisco, Aug 13 : Facebook has delayed its return-to-office plans till early next year, as the US witnesses a surge in cases of the delta variant of Covid-19.Earlier this month, Facebook had said that it would require its US employees to be vac…

Ottawa, Aug 13 : Canada is suffering a fourth wave of the Covid-19 pandemic as variants of the virus continue to spread in the country, said Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer Theresa Tam on Thursday.Tam told a press conference that the country’s n…

Harare, Aug 13 : The Covid-19 pandemic has affected Zimbabwe’s primary source of funding for the conservation of elephants and other wildlife, resulting in a surge in incidents of human-wildlife conflict.Incidents involving elephants killing people o…

Stockholm, Aug 13 : The Swedish government is set to extend legislation allowing it to introduce restrictions to curb the spread of Covid-19, Prime Minister Stefan Lofven announced on Thursday.”Sweden must be well-prepared in the event of a deteriora…

Toronto, Aug 12 : Scientists at the University Health Network (UHN) here have conducted a first-in-the-world randomised placebo-controlled trial of third dose Covid-19 booster vaccine for transplant patients that shows substantially improved protecti…

New York, Aug 12 : US researchers have found that people recovering from Covid-19 and those vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2 produce identical clones, or groups, of antibody-producing white blood cells.Antibodies are proteins produced by specialised whi…

London, Aug 12 : Vaccines against Covid-19 that were developed by US drug makers Pfizer and Moderna may not be as effective against the ‘Delta’ variant compared to as they were against the original strain of the virus, suggests a new study.Researcher…