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US rushes to catch up in the race to detect mutant viruses

11:12 pm February 4, 2021

New York: Despite its world-class medical system and its vaunted Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, the US fell behind in the race to detect dangerous coronavirus mutations. And it’s only now beginning to catch up. The problem has not been a shortage of technology or expertise. Rather, scientists say, it’s an absence of national […]

Over 80 people arrested in China for smuggling fake COVID-19 vaccines

9:58 pm February 2, 2021

Beijing: China has arrested over 80 people for smuggling and supplying counterfeit COVID-19 vaccines, amid reports that some of the jabs have already made their way to Africa, the official media reported on Tuesday. Apart from the arrests, 3,000 doses of the fake vaccines were confiscated from the accused in a special drive that China has carried out […]

UK vaccination drive expands as virus toll nears 100,000

12:02 am January 25, 2021

London: Britain is expanding a coronavirus vaccination programme that has seen more than 6 million people get the first of two doses — even as the country’s death toll in the pandemic approaches 100,000. Health Secretary Matt Hancock said Sunday that three-quarters of the U.K.’s over-80s have received a vaccine shot. He said three-quarters of nursing home […]

UP CM likens anti-Covid vaccine to ‘Sanjeevani Booti’

4:30 pm January 24, 2021

Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday compared the Covid-19 vaccines given by India to Brazil to ‘Sanjeevani Booti’, a mythological life-saving herb figuring in the Hindu epic Ramayana. Yogi made the comparison a day after Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro invoked Lord Hanuman while thanking Prime Minister Narendra Modi for providing two million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to fight the deadly coronavirus infection in his country, one of the worst-hit […]

WHO report on Wuhan virus mission expected soon

China sees spike in coronavirus cases ahead of WHO team visit to probe COVID-19 origins

1:46 pm January 13, 2021

Beijing: China’s COVID-19 cases crossed the 100-mark for the first time in recent months, ahead of Thursday’s visit of the WHO team to Wuhan to probe the origins of the coronavirus. The number of coronavirus cases in China climbed to 115 on Tuesday, the National Health Commission (NHC) said on Wednesday, adding that 107 of the infections were locally […]