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.
Japan reported 253,265 additional COVID cases Saturday, with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida testing positive for the virus on Sunday.
As per the data shared by the ministry, India’s recovery rate stands at 98.58% with 15,220 patients having recovered in the last 24 hours taking the cumulative tally of recovered patients to 4,36,85,535.
With this, India’s active caseload now stands at 1,01,343 with active cases now constituting 0.23% of the country’s total positive cases.
With this, India’s active caseload now stands at 1,05,058 with active cases now constituting 0.24% of the country’s total positive cases.
While the weekly positivity rate in the country currently stands at 4.79 percent, the daily positivity rate shoots to 4.15 percent, as per the data.
