On Tuesday, New Zealand said that it will start using COVID-19 vaccine certificates as proof of inoculation at large events and other high-risk settings from next month, as the country battles the spread of the Delta variant. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, on Monday abandoned a long-standing
According to the World Bank, evidence suggests that young children are less likely to come in contact with COVID-19 and given the “safe" school reopening experiences in various countries prior to vaccine development, education systems do not need to wait for widespread vaccination before returning
The number of Covid-19 cases may have come down last month but the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) recorded over 122 dengue cases and 69 confirmed cases of chikungunya in the last week of September alone. September saw the highest number of confirmed and suspected cases
Nicaragua has authorised two Cuban-made coronavirus vaccines to be used in the Central American nation, the Cuban state-run pharmaceutical corporation BioCubaFarma said on Saturday. Cuban scientists have developed three vaccines against COVID-19, all of which are waiting to receive official recognition from the World Health Organization. BioCubaFarma
Health Minister Greg Hunt said on Monday, Australia's Delta outbreak appears to have levelled off, with more than half the country in extended lockdowns and vaccination rates starting to approach national targets, Hunt said 80% of Australians will have had their first COVID-19 jabs this week,
‘’The second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic came as a surprise to many health experts, who had thought that this form of virus was eliminated. The outbreak started in December last year and cases grew exponentially over the next few months.Chronic heart failure (HF) is
On Monday Pfizer Inc (PFE.N) said that it had dosed the first patient in a trial testing a flu vaccine based on messenger RNA, the same technology used in the COVID-19 shots made by the U.S. drugmaker and BioNTech . Conducted in the United States, the early-stage vaccine
WHO chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan has said, citing sero-survey results and huge learning loss over past 18 months that Tamil Nadu should consider reopening schools for all classes,. On Sunday in an event, Soumya said one of the main findings of ICMR’s fourth sero prevalence study conducted in June
According to a study published on Monday by Oxford University, the COVID-19 pandemic reduced life expectancy in 2020 by the largest amount since World War Two, with the life expectancy of American men dropping by more than two years. Life expectancy cut by more than six
The total number of the mosquito borne infection so far this year in Delhi has crossed the 200 mark, With 53 more cases of dengue recorded in the Capital over the last week. According to the weekly report released by the municipal corporations on Monday, Delhi recorded
