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Washington, Aug 23 : The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Monday gave full approval to the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.It is the first Covid-19 vaccine to receive full approval, and will now be marketed as Comirnaty, the regulator said i…

New York, Aug 23 : Unable to manage your blood pressure levels? Eating flavonoid-rich foods like berries, apples, pears and drinking red wine can lower systolic blood pressure levels, as well as improve greater diversity in gut microbiome, according …

New York, Aug 23 : The theory that Covid-19 is the result of the virus jumping from animals to humans is much more likely than the much prevalent lab leak, say researchers.In a critical review published in the peer-reviewed journal Cell, 21 scientifi…

Kathmandu, Aug 23 : As many as 654 Nepali citizens have been brought back from Afghanistan after the Taliban seized power, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Monday.”Some Nepali nationals were rescued and brought back to Doha, Dubai, London and …

Colombo, Aug 23 : Sri Lanka’s Health Ministry said on Monday that the country recorded its highest single-day Covid-19 tally of 4,282 cases on Sunday, taking the total infections to 390,000 since March last year.According to official figures, Sri Lan…

Wellington, Aug 23 : New Zealand reported 35 new community Covid-19 cases of the Delta variant on Monday, among which 33 are from Auckland and two from Wellington, bringing the total number of infections in the country’s community outbreak to 107.Pri…

Beijing, Aug 23 : Beijing has been cleared of medium and high-risk areas for Covid-19 with the last medium-risk area being downgraded to low-risk on Monday.The Beijing Centre for Disease Control and Prevention said in an announcement that a residenti…

Taipei, Aug 23 : Taiwan on Monday started administering its first domestically developed Covid-19 vaccine amid fierce criticism over the approval process.The vaccine Medigen, meaning “high-end” in Chinese language, is a recombinant protein vaccine de…

Washington, Aug 23 : The US is expanding its manufacturing of Covid-19 vaccines to help countries with low access to the lifesaving shots, the nations’ top infectious disease expert has said.”We are now working on greatly expanding the capacity to al…

Dublin, Aug 23 : The number of Covid-19 hospitalisations in Ireland reached a record high since March this year despite a decline in daily cases.The Irish Department of Health said that as of Sunday morning there were 314 Covid-19 patients being trea…