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Tehran, Oct 23 : Iran’s health ministry has reported 11,064 new Covid-19 cases, taking the country’s total infections to 5,844,589.The pandemic also claimed 165 lives in the past 24 hours, taking the overall tally to 124,928, said the update by Iran’…

Ottawa, Oct 23 : The Canadian government has lifted its advisory against all non-essential international travel by Canadians outside the country which were in place since the onset of Covid-19 pandemic in March 2020.The new advisories for each countr…

Colombo, Oct 22 : After nearly three months of travel restrictions, Sri Lanka on Friday decided to allow inter-provincial public movements from November 1 amidst health officials warning of the spread of new Delta-plus variant. Sri Lanka’s Army Comma…

Washington, Oct 22 : The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has finally accepted that they have given in funding for gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses at China’s Wuhan lab, the media reported.The Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), wh…

New Delhi, Oct 22 : After a brief lull as the world sees economic recovery from the pandemic, the deadly Covid virus appears to be the prowl again in several countries.Since the beginning of this week, many countries including Russia, the UK, China a…

London, Oct 22 : UK researchers have developed ‘mini brains’ that allow them to study a fatal and untreatable neurological disorder causing paralysis and dementia.This is not the first time scientists have grown mini brains from patients with neurode…

Geneva, Oct 22 : The Covid-19 pandemic has killed an estimated 80,000 to 180,000 healthcare workers from January 2020 till May this year, the World Health Organization (WHO) said.The estimates are derived from a new WHO working paper based on the 3.4…

New Delhi, Oct 22 : Former Pakistani diplomat Abdul Basit said the UAE’s Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir for development projects is a “major success for India”, Geo News reported. What has made Pakista…

Washington, Oct 22 : The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended Moderna and Johnson (and) Johnson’s Covid booster doses and has given the freedom for people to mix and match the third shot.”Eligible individuals may choo…

Washington, Oct 22 : The global coronavirus caseload has topped 241.9 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 4.92 million and vaccinations soared to over 6.73 billion, according to the Johns Hopkins University.In its latest update on Frid…