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.
With this, India’s active caseload now stands at 14,841 with active cases now constituting 0.03% of the country's total positive cases.
Addressing the UN's World Health Assembly in Geneva on Sunday, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the world is not over the pandemic, which has claimed six million lives, with almost 15 million excess mortality.
As per the data shared by the ministry, India’s recovery rate stands at 98.75% with 2099 patients having recovered in the last 24 hours taking the cumulative tally of recovered patients to 4,25,99,102.
The death toll stood static at 9,126 as no new fatality due to the infection was reported for the 20th consecutive day. Besides, 53 other coronavirus patients have died due to comorbidities so far.
As per the data shared by the ministry, India’s recovery rate stands at 98.75% with 2202 patients having recovered in the last 24 hours taking the cumulative tally of recovered patients to 4,25,97,003.
