THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: With ten days left for the start of summer, Kerala’s weather has turned on its heat. Summer temperatures average around 36 degrees Celsius in March. This time the temperature in Kannur crossed 37 degrees Celsius in February itself. The temperature in Kozhikode is likely to rise up to 38 degrees in the coming days. […]
New Delhi: With rising cases of monkeypox in the country, the Union health ministry on Wednesday released a list of dos and don’ts to avoid contracting the disease. It also underlined that anyone can catch the virus if they have had prolonged or repeated contact with an infected individual.Among the dos, the ministry advised isolating […]
KANNUR: The threat of monkey pox has raised concern in the state again. A 40-year-old youth who came from Dubai to Kannur has been admitted to Pariyaram Government Medical College with symptoms. He reached Kannur from Dubai via Mangaluru airport. His samples have been sent to Pune Institute of Virology for expert tests. The results […]
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala health minister Veena George here on Friday informed that all districts are directed to maintain vigil in the wake of a confirmed monkeypox case in a Kollam native who arrived from UAE. The person arrived in Thiruvananthapuram in flight and had contact with passengers from Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam, Pathanamthitta, Alappuzha, and Kottayam. As a […]
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: With seven more people testing positive for Omicron in Kerala, the total number of infections by the new variant of COVID-19 in the state has reached 64, the Health Department said on Tuesday. Of the seven cases, four were detected in Pathanamthitta, two in Alappuzha and one in Thiruvananthapuram, the department said in a […]
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday announced that India would start vaccinating children between the ages of 15 to 18 from January 3 next year. Healthcare and frontline workers will be provided with “precautionary doses” from January 10, he added. People above 60 years of age, who have comorbidities, will also have the […]
Geneva: The Omicron variant has been detected in 38 countries but no deaths have yet been reported, the WHO said on Friday, as authorities worldwide rushed to stem the heavily mutated Covid-19 strain’s spread amid warnings that it could damage the global economic recovery. The United States and Australia became the latest countries to confirm […]
Geneva: US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer on Tuesday announced a deal to make its prospective antiviral Covid-19 pill available more cheaply in the world’s least wealthy countries. Pfizer will sub-licence production of its promising Paxlovid pill to generic drug manufacturers for supply in 95 low- and middle-income nations covering around 53 percent of the world’s population. Under the deal […]
LONDON: Britain on Thursday became the first country in the world to approve a potentially game-changing COVID-19 antiviral pill jointly developed by U.S.-based Merck (MRK.N) and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics, in a boost to the fight against the pandemic. Britain’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) recommended the drug, molnupiravir, for use in people with mild […]
United Nations/Geneva: The World Health Organisation’s technical advisory group on Tuesday sought “additional clarifications” from Bharat Biotech for its COVID-19 vaccine Covaxin to conduct a final “risk-benefit assessment” for Emergency Use Listing of the vaccine. The technical advisory group will now meet on November 3 for a final assessment. Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech, which has developed Covaxin, had submitted […]