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India’s Excess Deaths During Pandemic Likely Up To 4.9 Mn: Report

The country's excess deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic could be as high as 4.9 million, a new study shows, providing…

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Misinformation On Social Media Platforms ‘Killing People’: Biden

U.S. President Joe Biden has said that social media companies are “killing people” by failing to police misinformation on their…

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US Confirms Wuhan Virus Sequences Were Removed From Database

Details of the genetic makeup of some of the earliest samples of coronavirus in China were removed from an American…

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Didn’t Back Doubling Dose Gap: Scientists; Govt Counters Claim

The government doubled the gap between the two doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine without the agreement of the scientific…

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Nearly 200k Palestinians Need Health Aid After Gaza Conflict: WHO

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday warned of "staggering health needs" in the occupied Palestinian Territories after last month's…

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Wuhan Lab Was Engaged In Military Activity: Pompeo

Former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Saturday said that the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) was engaged in…

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Politicising Covid Origins Hampers Probe: China’s US Embassy

Politicising the origins of COVID-19 would hamper further investigations and undermine global efforts to curb the pandemic, China's U.S. embassy…

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Wuhan Lab Staff Sought Hospital Care Before Covid Outbreak: Report

Three researchers from China's Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) sought hospital care in November 2019, months before China disclosed the…

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Long Working Hours Are A Killer, WHO Study Shows

Working long hours is killing hundreds of thousands of people a year in a worsening trend that may accelerate further…

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Telecom Operators Urge Haryana Govt To Curb 5G Testing Rumours

The Cellular Operators' Association of India (COAI) on Sunday said it has urged the Haryana government to curb misinformation being…

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Don’t Vaccinate Kids, Give Doses To Covax: WHO Chief

The WHO urged wealthy countries on Friday to stop vaccinating children against Covid-19 and instead donate doses to poorer nations,…

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Covid Catastrophe ‘Could Have Been Prevented’: Global Panel

The catastrophic scale of the Covid-19 pandemic could have been prevented, an independent global panel concluded on Wednesday, but a…

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Covid Spreads In Rural India, Record Daily Rise In Cases, Deaths

India reported a record 412,262 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday and a record 3,980 daily death toll, as a second…

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‘Strong Evidence’ Covid Mainly Spreads Through Air: Lancet

A new assessment in the medical journal Lancet has found "consistent, strong evidence" that the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19,…

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Covid Probably Passed From A Bat: WHO Experts’ Report

A team of international experts will present details on Tuesday of their findings from a mission to China, which concluded…

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By Catching Bats, ‘Virus Hunters’ Hope To Stop Next Pandemic

Researchers wearing headlamps and protective suits race to untangle the claws and wings of bats caught up in a big…

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Germany, Italy, France Stop AstraZeneca Vaccine

The EU's largest countries joined a stream of states halting their rollouts of AstraZeneca jabs on Monday over blood clot…

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Fact Check: No WHO Nod To Herbal Medicine As Covid-19 Treatment

Multiple Facebook and Twitter posts shared hundreds of times claim the World Health Organization (WHO) approved Coronil, an Indian herbal…

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Air Pollution Led To 54,000 Premature Deaths In Delhi

Air pollution caused an estimated 54,000 premature deaths in the capital New Delhi last year, a higher toll than in…

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Here’s Why India’s Coronavirus Cases Have Fallen Sharply

With its 1.3 billion population, India has the world's second-highest number of coronavirus infections -- more than 10.8 million --…

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Over 300 Million Indians May Have Covid-19

About one in four of India’s 1.35 billion people may have been infected with the coronavirus, said a source with…

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Over Half In New Delhi May Have Had Covid: Govt Survey

More than half of New Delhi’s 20 million inhabitants may have been infected with the coronavirus, according to a government…

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Biden Rolls Back Trump Policies On Health, Climate, Wall, Muslims

U.S. President Joe Biden signed 15 executive actions shortly after being sworn on Wednesday, undoing policies put in place by…

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China, WHO Could Have Acted More Quickly: Probe Panel

The World Health Organization and Beijing could have acted faster when Covid-19 first surfaced in China, a group investigating the…

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Anti-Smoking Law: Tobacco Industry To Object To Changes

India’s tobacco industry will object to a proposal to ban smoking zones in hotels and prohibit advertising at cigarette kiosks…

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