Unravelling Air Pollution In Asian Countries
When Trisha Mahajan was growing up in the northern Indian city of Amritsar, air pollution was never on her mind....
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
‘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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 --...
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...
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...
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...
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...
