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 the addition of the new cases of infections the overall caseload of the country rose to 4,50,28,163, including the JN.1 Covid variant cases.
Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur on Friday said the strategies adopted by the Centre to tackle Covid pandemic has deepened the trust of people of all walks of life in the dynamic leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
All those who are more than 18 years of age and have completed nine months after the administration of the second dose would be eligible for a precaution dose.
India’s recovery rate stands at 98.76% with 1,213 patients having recovered in the last 24 hours taking the cumulative tally of recovered patients (since the beginning of the pandemic) now at 4,25,00,002.
The State now has 208 active cases while five districts- Puri, Kalahandi, Koraput, Keonjhar and Nayagarh- have turned Coronavirus-free with no active case, said health officials.
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Wednesday announced that a 50-year-old woman with a travel history to South Africa may have been infected with the newly-discovered 'XE' variant of the coronavirus. However, the Union Health Ministry denied the report which claimed that the first case of COVID-19 variant XE has been detected in India.
