Bhubaneswar, Dec 16 (SocialNews.XYZ) At least 15 employees of the steel and mines department of Odisha government have been found Covid positive, forcing the authority to close down the department for two days. As per…
Hyderabad, Dec 16 (SocialNews.XYZ) Bharat Biotech announced on Thursday that it will donate two lakh doses of its Covid-19 vaccine Covaxin to Vietnam. The announcement was made by Hyderabad-based company’s Joint Managing Director Suchitra Ella…
London, Dec 16 (SocialNews.XYZ) With the heavily mutated Omicron variant of Covid supercharging booster vaccine debate in rich countries, the world will face a deficit of 3 billion Covid-19 vaccine shots by early next year,…
London, Dec 16 (SocialNews.XYZ) After UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned that the nation will see a ‘tidal wave’ of Omicron variant, the country’s health chief said the new strain poses the biggest threat of…
Kinshasa, Dec 16 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Ebola outbreak that erupted in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s North Kivu Province in October — the second in 2021 — was declared over on Thursday, the national health authorities…
New Delhi, Dec 16 (SocialNews.XYZ) Even as the US recorded 800,000 Covid-19 deaths to date, analysis shows that the death toll of Americans under President Joe Biden equals that of during the regime of former…
Washington, Dec 16 (SocialNews.XYZ) Existing vaccines and booster shots against Covid are sufficient to prevent Omicron infections, said top infectious disease expert Dr Anthony Fauci, as he advised against changing the vaccines to fight the…
Hyderabad, Dec 16 (SocialNews.XYZ) As many as 156 kidney stones were removed from a 50-year-old patient at a Hyderabad hospital. Doctors at the Preeti Urology & Kidney Hospital, a leading renal care facility in the…
Johannesburg, Dec 16 (SocialNews.XYZ) With the latest Covid-19 cases at 26,976, the National Coronavirus Command Council has retained lockdown restrictions at “adjusted level 1”, health authorities said on Thursday. Dr Angelique Coetzee, chairperson of the…
Kuala Lumpur, Dec 16 (SocialNews.XYZ) Large scale New Year celebrations in Malaysia have been banned over concerns that the new Omicron variant of Covid-19 could spread in the country, the Health Ministry said on Thursday….
Thiruvananthapuram, Dec 16 (SocialNews.XYZ) With five Omicron positive cases being detected in Kerala, State Health Minister Veena George said on Thursday that screening, especially at the airports, seaports will be strengthened. The minister was addressing…
United Nations, Dec 16 (SocialNews.XYZ) Stephane Dujarric, spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, confirmed that he has tested positive for Covid-19 and will comply with medical guidelines by self-isolation. “I would like to inform you…
Ottawa, Dec 16 (SocialNews.XYZ) Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos has urged Canadians with plans to travel abroad to cancel their trips as the Omicron variant spreads. “To those who were planning to travel, I say very…
Hyderabad, Dec 16 (SocialNews.XYZ) The health authorities on Thursday sounded an alert in a residential area in Hyderabad where two cases of Omicron were detected among foreigners. Teams of health workers along with the employees…
London, Dec 16 (SocialNews.XYZ) The UK government’s decision to ramp up Covid-19 vaccination in response to the new Omicron variant will take time to bring any benefit and may not prevent a surge in cases…
Chennai, Dec 16 (SocialNews.XYZ) Tamil Nadu has reported its first Omicron case with a 47-year-old male passenger, who had arrived from Nigeria via Doha, testing positive for this Coronavirus variant. He has been admitted to…
Jaipur, Dec 16 (SocialNews.XYZ) Rajasthan witnessed its fourth Covid death in December on Wednesday, while it registered 20 new cases taking the active caseload to 260 in the state. One of the deceased, identified as…
New Delhi, Dec 16 (SocialNews.XYZ) A lab leak in the Chinese city of Wuhan is thought to be the most likely origin of Covid-19 because an animal host has not been found after two years…
Lucknow, Dec 16 (SocialNews.XYZ) Doctors at the paediatric surgery department of the King George’s Medical University (KGMU) here have successfully performed a life-saving surgery on a three-month-old boy suffering from a rare congenital disorder called…
Koppal, (Karnataka) Dec 16 (SocialNews.XYZ) Defying prohibitory orders amid the growing Omicron fears, thousands of Lord Hanuman devotees gathered on the Anjanadri Hills in this district on Thursday. The district administration and police department had…