Delhi, Jan 25 (SocialNews.XYZ) While Covid-19 has primarily been a respiratory disease, about 90 per cent of people with moderate to severe infections have lasting effects on the heart, said experts here. Covid affects lungs…
London, Jan 25 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Omicron variant of Covid is highly contagious but is known to cause less severe disease than Delta. This is after being better at escaping immune protection by vaccinations and previous…
Hong Kong, Jan 25 (SocialNews.XYZ) Despite low absolute risk, there is an increased relative risk of carditis — a type of heart inflammation — associated with Covid vaccine developed by US drugmaker Pfizer and China’s…
New Delhi, Jan 25 (SocialNews.XYZ) After reporting over three lakh new cases for five days in a row, India reported 2,55,874 fresh Covid infections in a span of 24 hours and the daily positivity rate…
Chennai, Jan 25 (SocialNews.XYZ) The industrial and commercial city of Tamil Nadu, Coimbatore is turning into the state’s Covid hotspot as the positivity rate has increased to 26.6 per cent. In a statement on Monday,…
Lucknow, Jan 25 (SocialNews.XYZ) Uttar Pradesh has become the first state in India to have administered more than 25 crore doses of Covid vaccines. Nearly 25.05 crore out of total 162.7 crore doses administered in…
Washington, Jan 25 (SocialNews.XYZ) Amid an ongoing resurgence across the world, the global coronavirus caseload has topped 354.3 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 5.60 million and vaccinations to over 9.81 billion,…
Gandhinagar, Jan 24 (SocialNews.XYZ) Though the number of fresh Covid cases has come down in Gujarat since the past few of days, the states Covid fatality has become a cause of concern with 25 people…
Bengaluru, Jan 24 (SocialNews.XYZ) Karnataka logged 46,426 new Covid cases against 41,703 discharges on Monday, as well as another 32 deaths. Positivity rate was 32.95 per cent and case fatality rate 0.06 per cent. Total…
New Delhi, Jan 24 (SocialNews.XYZ) Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya will hold a virtual meeting with nine states and United Territories on Tuesday to take stock of the prevailing Covid situation. A source said that…
New Delhi, Jan 24 (SocialNews.XYZ) Delhi on Monday recorded a nearly 37 per cent decline in daily Covid cases at 5,760, as against 9,197 on Sunday, while there were 30 deaths too. The fresh cases…
Jammu, Jan 24 (SocialNews.XYZ) Jammu and Kashmir on Monday reported 5,394 new cases and 8 deaths. According to an official bulletin, in the last 24 hours 5,394 tested positive — 2,045 in Jammu division and…
New Delhi, Jan 24 (SocialNews.XYZ) About 9 in 10 people have lost some degree of vision during the last two years of Covid pandemic, health experts said on Monday. It is because most of them…
New Delhi, Jan 24 (SocialNews.XYZ) Covid has still got a “long, long way” to go and is “still very serious” despite some optimism the end is in sight in Europe, the World Health Organisation’s special…
New York, Jan 24 (SocialNews.XYZ) The “nocebo effect” accounted for more than two-thirds of the common side effects people experience after a Covid-19 vaccination rather than the vaccine itself, according to a new study. The…
Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 24 (SocialNews.XYZ) With close to 1.70 lakh new Covid cases in Kerala in the past four days and the daily test positivity rate reaching as high as 45 per cent, State Health Minister…
Ballari, Jan 24 (SocialNews.XYZ) As many as 37 Covid cases have been reported from Krishnadevaraya University in Nandihalli Post Graduation Center in Sandur taluk of Karnataka’s Ballari district on Monday. According to University sources, the…
Lucknow, Jan 24 (SocialNews.XYZ) The CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI) has developed an indigenous RT-PCR diagnostic kit, called ‘Om’, for testing the new Omicron variant of Covid-19. It is the first kit made by any…
Brussels, Jan 24 (SocialNews.XYZ) Even as Omicron has been showing signs of peaking, some European countries are seeing the rise of Omicron subvariant BA.2, sparking concern among the scientific community. The subvariant BA.2, dubbed with…
New Delhi, Jan 24 (SocialNews.XYZ) Top virologist Dr Gagandeep Kang has termed the monoclonal antibody therapy in private hospitals for Omicron-led Covid infections treatment as “unethical, immoral and unscientific”. In a series of tweets, Dr…