HIV chooses how to package itself for replication in the human body using just two small points on a strand of its RNA, a recent study...
Masking is crucial and double masking gives you another level of protection so double masking is the way to go, said Dr Rommel Tickoo, Director, Internal...
To ramp up production capacity of vaccines, it is essential that the global supply chains of raw materials are kept open, said Ambassador T. S. Tirumurti,...
Lord Bruce, President, NGO The Democracy Forum (TDF) warned that dramatic evidence of natural disasters, triggered by climate change, is fast accumulating across South Asia, and...
According to WHO, while the effectiveness of vaccines against severe Covid has fallen slightly, these are still important and contribute in preventing deaths
The Centre urged states and union territories to conduct mock drills to ensure full functionality of all oxygen equipment
The U.N. weather agency World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has certified a 38°C in Verkhoyansk, the Russian town, as the highest temperature ever recorded in the Arctic
As of December 13, India reported 38 cases of Omicron - the variant of concern that has spread to over 60 countries in the world
In his message marking the International Universal Health Coverage Day, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that with the third year of the pandemic fast approaching, we...
Maharashtra's first patient of the Omicron variant of coronavirus, who resides in Thane district, was on Wednesday discharged from a hospital after testing negative for the...
World Health Organization in a recent update has said that COVID-19 vaccines provide protection against Omicron variant
Dr Julian W Tang of the University of Leicester on Omicron variant, what we know and don't know so far