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A volunteer receives the Covid-19 vaccine from Yaquelin De La Cruz at the Research Centers of America in Hollywood, Florida on August 13, 2020 (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP). To establish the degree of certainty of the vaccine’s effectiveness in the real world, an experiment requires tens of thousands …

A health official takes nasal and throat swab samples from a child to test for Covid-19 at a primary health center in Siliguri on September 2, 2020 (DIPTENDU DUTTA / AFP). India surpassed the 38 lakh mark on Thursday with the largest single-day increase of 83,883 Covid-19 cases in the …

WASHINGTON: An experimental vaccine that stimulates the production of specific proteins could be effective against the new coronavirus that causes Covid-19, according to a study conducted in mice. Scientists at Ohio State University in the US manipulated a natural cellular process to increase the levels of two proteins used by …

NEW DELHI: Sudden deaths of Covid-19 patients, both upon arrival at the emergency department and those admitted to hospital, have prompted the Ministry of Health to ask doctors to strictly monitor patients with factors at risk or with previous comorbid conditions such as chronic lung disease. The document, called Frequently …

A health worker explains the operation of an oximeter to an asymptomatic person who tested positive for Covid-19 at a local Delhi government dispensary on September 1, 2020 (AP Photo / Manish Swarup). Coronavirus cases in India crossed the 37 lakh mark on Wednesday, with 78,357 new Covid-19 infections reported …

WASHINGTON: The Trump administration said Tuesday that it will not work with an international cooperative effort to develop and distribute a Covid-19 vaccine because it does not want to be limited by multilateral groups like the World Health Organization. The decision to act alone, first reported by The Washington Post, …

NEW DELHI: India reported close to 2 million Covid-19 cases in August, the highest recorded in any country for any month since the outbreak of the pandemic. The country also saw an increase in deaths from the virus, with 28,859 deaths reported in August, a 50% increase from the previous …

Preparations are underway at a hospital here for the start of the second phase of the human clinical trial of ‘Covaxin’, the COVID-19 vaccine indigenous to India, authorities said. “Phase I of the trial is still continuing, as we are planning to start the Phase II trial shortly,” said Dr. …

BENGALURU: The Union’s Health Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan on Sunday expressed hope that we will have “very significant control” over Covid-19 by Diwali. “… hopefully in the coming months, maybe for Diwali, we will have very significant control over the coronavirus,” Vardhan said. Addressing the Nation First webinar series hosted …

[ad_1] Nurses in private hospitals claim that their subsidies have been reduced while nurses hired in government hospitals demand a better salary. Nurses in private and government hospitals, who are among the frontline warriors in the battle against COVID-19, have alleged that they are fighting without adequate wages in Tamil …