COVID-19

FILE PHOTO: A man pushes a woman in wheelchair past a poster with a graphic of medical workers at a nucleic acid testing booth for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) , in Beijing, China October 27, 2022. REUTERS/Tingshu Wang/File Photo
Health

WHO warns Covid still a threat

10,000 deaths were reported to the WHO last month, there was a 42 percent increase in hospitalisations and a 62 percent increase in intensive care unit admissions, compared with November

People wearing protective masks walk outside the Germans Trias i Pujol Hospital in Badalona, Spain, January 8, 2024. REUTERS/ Albert Gea
Europe

Spain considers nationwide hospital mask rule, as flu, Covid hit Europe

Dr. Syed Naqvi, a pulmonologist, dons an N95 mask before entering the ICU at SSM Health St. Anthony Hospital amid the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S., January 28, 2021. REUTERS/Nick Oxford/File Photo
Health

Mask mandates return at some US hospitals as Covid, flu jump

India has handled the Covid-19 pandemic remarkably well, facilitated by the emphasis on a digital India and the portability of welfare benefits. Photo: Reuters
Health

Covid cases jump 75% in 24 hours in Indian State, one more death recorded

A woman holds a small bottle labelled with a "Coronavirus COVID-19 Vaccine" sticker and a medical syringe in this illustration taken October 30, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/File Photo
Health

Bangladesh plans to restart Covid-19 vaccination if infections surge

US dollar banknotes are seen in this illustration taken on 10 March 2023. Photo: Reuters
Banking

Remittance inflow, exchange rate have long-term nexus: Research

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Coronavirus chronicle

WHO says JN.1 Covid strain a 'variant of interest', poses low risk

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson walks outside Downing Street in London, Britain, July 20, 2022. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls
Europe

Former UK PM Johnson denies he wanted to let Covid 'rip'

35% post-Covid migrants return as they didn’t get any jobs: Study
Migration

35% post-Covid migrants return as they didn’t get any jobs: Study

Asmita Koladiya, 29, a healthcare worker, carrying her eight-month-old daughter Jiyanshi Gaurang, gives a dose of vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) to a villager in Lodhida village in Rajkot district in the western state of Gujarat, India, February 2, 2022. REUTERS/Amit Dave/File Photo
South Asia

Indian researchers find no link between sudden death and Covid shots

A researcher works in an industrial development laboratory at the vaccine unit of French drugmaker Sanofi's Pasteur plant in Marcy-l'Etoile, near Lyon, France June 16, 2020. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes/File Photo
World+Biz

From Covid to cancer: High hopes for Nobel mRNA vaccines

Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman win the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden October 2, 2023. TT News Agency/via REUTERS
World+Biz

Hungarian and US scientists win medicine Nobel for Covid-19 vaccine work

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Economy

Govt looks to regain economy's pre-Covid momentum by the end of current fiscal