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.
According to the institute, this was the first time in more than two and a half months when the RT was higher than 1.
As per the data shared by the ministry, India’s recovery rate stands at 98.59% with 13,029 patients having recovered in the last 24 hours taking the cumulative tally of recovered patients to 4,27,49,056.
As per the data shared by the ministry, India’s recovery rate stands at 98.60% with 10,972 patients having recovered in the last 24 hours taking the cumulative tally of recovered patients to 4,27,36,027.
Uddhav Thackeray who tested positive for COVID on Wednesday joined the meeting via video conferencing. State cabinet minister Aslam Shaikh said only the cabinet agenda was discussed in the meeting and not the current political scenario.
The death toll stood at 9,126 as no new fatality due to the infection was reported for more than one month. Besides, 53 other coronavirus patients have died due to comorbidities so far. The State has not recorded Covid fatality for almost two months.
