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New York, Sep 28 : The number of negative posts about Covid-19 is declining, especially in countries which rolled out extensive vaccination programmes, according to a study.Scientists from Vanderbilt University in the US and the Federal Technological…

Geneva, Sep 28 : The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Tuesday launched the first-ever global strategy to defeat meningitis — a debilitating disease that kills hundreds of thousands of people each year.The Global Roadmap to Defeat Meningitis by 203…

New Delhi, Sep 28: The acute power shortage in China, which has already brought down its industrial activities, is set to have an impact on economic growth. China, the first country to come out of the Covid 19 pandemic induced crisis is now starting at…

London, Sep 28 : UK drugmaker AstraZeneca has partnered with scientists at Imperial College London to develop a new vaccine technology to treat cancer, heart conditions and other non-infectious diseases and illnesses.The technology was originally int…

Seoul, Sep 28 : Cancer remained the top cause of death in South Korea, with the number of fatalities hitting a record high last year, a government report revealed on Tuesday.In 2020, 304,948 deaths were reported in South Korea, up 3.3 per cent from a…

New York, Sep 28 : The microbiota in the nose and upper throat likely contains biomarkers for assessing how sick an individual infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing Covid-19, may get, suggests a study that may help develop new treatment strateg…

London, Sep 28 : Smoking is highly likely to worsen the severity of Covid-19 and the risk of dying from the infection, finds a large study.Several studies carried out early on in the pandemic reported a lower prevalence of active smokers among people…

Dharamsala, Sep 28 : At the ongoing 48th UN Human Rights Council session, a group of member states of the world body has called on China to respect human rights in Tibet, the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) said on Tuesday.Delegates from Denmark…

Washington, Sep 28 : The global coronavirus caseload has topped 232 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 4.75 million and vaccinations soared to over 6.12 billion, according to the Johns Hopkins University.In its latest update on Tuesda…

Washington, Sep 28 : As the US is witnessing an unabated resurgence of new Covid-19 cases, particularly among unvaccinated Americans, some funeral homes in the state of Idaho are running out of space, according to a media report.Quoting data from the…