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When two brothers fell seriously ill with COVID-19 Around the same time in March, his doctors were baffled. They were both young (29 and 31 years old) and healthy. However, within days they were unable to breathe on their own and, tragically, one of them died.Two weeks later, when a …

China has stepped up controls on frozen food imports amid the pandemic. Beijing: Health authorities in eastern China’s Qingdao city found coronavirus contamination in some packages stored by a seafood importer after two of its handlers tested positive for the virus but showed no symptoms. China has tightened controls on …

India’s economy showed signs of stabilization in August and manufacturing and services gradually improved even as coronavirus cases spiked across the country. Five of the eight high-frequency indicators compiled by Bloomberg News gained last month, while two were unchanged and one deteriorated. That kept the needle on a dial that …

India recorded 86,052 new Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the total count to close to 5.9 million. Active cases have risen to 9,70,116, while more than 4.75 million have been recovered so far. During the last six days, the number of recoveries recorded per day in the …

Like three other companies with Covid-19 vaccine candidates undergoing phase 3 clinical trials, Johnson & Johnson, on Wednesday, released elaborate documentation of its clinical trial protocol (it has the largest phase 3 trials of all the candidates so far, about 60,000 people). This unprecedented level of disclosure, which has never …

A study to analyze the structure of the coronavirus from two waves of infections in a major city found that a more contagious strain dominates recent samples, researchers at Houston Methodist Hospital said Wednesday. They studied more than 5,000 virus genomes found in the earliest phase of the Houston pandemic …

New Delhi: The Minister of State for Railways and Karnataka BJP deputy Suresh Angadi passed away on Wednesday, days after testing positive for COVID-19. The 65-year-old man passed away around 8 p.m. at the AIIMS trauma center, which has been converted into a dedicated COVID-19 facility. Angadi, Belagavi’s fourth-term deputy, …

The government has asked the 10 worst affected states to implement specific public communication campaigns to control the coronavirus pandemic, as deaths crossed the 90,000 mark nationally and cases rose to 5.66 million on Wednesday. These states together account for 76% of all reported COVID-19 cases and 83% of the …

NEW DELHI: With more than 30 Members of Parliament and several staff members testing positive for coronavirus, the monsoon session was shortened on Wednesday and both Houses managed to hold just 10 sessions instead of the 18 scheduled between September 14 and September. October 1st. With this, the 252nd session …

NEW DELHI: Bharat Biotech on Wednesday signed a licensing agreement with the Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, USA, for a new intranasal single dose “chimpanzee adenovirus” vaccine for Covid-19. As Covid cases continue to show an increase around the world, several nations are working on vaccines that …