Climate Trends’ air-pollution and health expert Dr. Palak Balyan warns that air pollution is “a pandemic as severe as COVID at its peak,” adding that if cities like Beijing and London could reverse extreme air pollution, Delhi too has hope and can improve its air quality.
Over 7,000 cases of the mosquito-borne chikungunya virus have emerged in China’s Guangdong province since July, triggering Covid-style containment measures, a Hong Kong-based English daily said.
Vaccine hesitancy—a reluctance or refusal to vaccinate despite the availability of the vaccine—continues to be a growing global concern, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and fuelled by misinformation and distrust.
In response to public concerns around sudden, unexplained deaths, particularly among young adults, India’s top medical research bodies have found no evidence linking COVID-19 vaccines to such fatalities.
A 52-year-old woman suffering from tuberculosis, bronchitis, and other comorbidities died during treatment at a hospital in Indore after testing positive for COVID-19 as well.
"WHO continues to advise people at high risk to wear a mask in crowded places, to get boosters when recommended, and to ensure adequate ventilation indoors," said WHO Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, in a recent address.
A rare brain infection known as the “brain-eating amoeba” claimed the life of a man in Georgia, US. The Georgia…
Enforcement Directorate(ED) on Friday summoned Suraj Chavan, a close aide of Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray, and asked him to appear for questioning in Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation(BMC) Covid scam case.
The human trial of the Covid vaccine Covaxin was also conducted at IMS and SUM Hospital.
US President Joe Biden held a bilateral meeting with Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez on Friday to reaffirm the close partnership between two nations
