HEALTH

Duchess of Cambridge Kate ‘hugely grateful’ for 1st vaccine dose

10:36 pm May 29, 2021

LONDON: The Duchess of Cambridge has received her first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine as Britain extends its inoculation program to younger people. Kate, the 39-year-old wife of Prince William, received her shot at London’s Science Museum, a mass vaccination center near the couple’s home at Kensington Palace, according to a photo posted on their […]

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Vietnam finds new COVID variant, hybrid of India, UK strains

9:30 pm May 29, 2021

HANOI: Vietnam has discovered a new coronavirus variant that’s a hybrid of strains first found in India and the U.K., the Vietnamese health minister said Saturday. Nguyen Thanh Long said scientists examined the genetic makeup of the virus that had infected some recent patients, and found the new version of the virus. He said lab […]

Encounter on between security forces, terrorists in Poonch

Amid vaccine shortage, how pvt hospitals ‘vaccinating’ people, asks Manish Sisodia

7:37 pm May 29, 2021

New Delhi: Slamming the Central government over vaccine shortage, Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Saturday raised questions on availability of vaccines at private hospitals. He said that while Centre says there aren’t enough vaccines, private hospitals are being given access and they are vaccinating young people at high costs. “Delhi government wants to vaccinate […]

Delhi hospital reports ‘first-ever’ case of white fungus causing severe damage to intestine

4:29 pm May 27, 2021

New Delhi: Delhi’s Sir Ganga Ram Hospital (SGRH) has come across a first-of-its-kind case of white fungus causing multiple perforations “throughout the intestine” in a COVID-19 patient, doctors said on Thursday. There have been reports of white fungus causing one or two perforations in the intestine of people suffering from COVID-19. In this case, there […]

Rollout of Sputnik-V COVID vaccine in Prayagraj soon

Sputnik V-makers have agreed to supply vaccine to Delhi: Kejriwal

9:16 pm May 26, 2021

New Delhi: Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday said the manufacturers of Sputnik V have agreed to supply the Russian anti-Covid vaccine to Delhi but its quantity is yet to be decided. He also said that there were around 620 cases of black fungus or mucormycosis in the city, but there is a shortage of […]