US President-Elect Donald Trump has named the Kolkata-born Jay Bhattacharya, who raised questions about Covid policies, to head the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the medical research powerhouse.
People suffering from common laryngopharyngeal dysfunction like chronic cough, hoarseness, recurrent throat clearing, especially after Covid, may be at significant risk of developing a heart attack or stroke, warns a study on Wednesday.
Meta Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg, in a letter to the House Judiciary Committee has alleged that the Biden-Harris administration "repeatedly pressurised" Meta's teams to censor posts related to Covid.
US researchers have identified a protein responsible for causing fatigue in people with long Covid, Alzheimer's and other diseases.
After a gap of about six months since the end of December in 2023, five new Covid-19 positive cases were reported at a private hospital in the southern part of the city.
This was the most upbeat assessment ever since the UN agency declared Covid-19 as an international emergency in January 2020 and started describing COVID-19 as a pandemic three months later.
With this, India’s active caseload now stands at 46,748 with active cases now constituting 0.11% of the country’s total positive cases.
The active caseload spiked to 46,748, accounting for 0.1 per cent of the country's total positive cases.
With this, India’s active caseload now stands at 45,749 with active cases now constituting 0.11% of the country’s total positive cases.
The COVID-19 tally rose to 13,30,853, a bulletin issued by the department said, adding that Khurda district with 45 cases topped the daily Covid tally followed by Cuttack at 41.
