Singapore is opening up its Covid-19 vaccination programme to adolescents from Tuesday to help contain the latest outbreak that has infected some students, and will step up testing and tracing. The city-state is among the first countries in the world to offer vaccines to teenagers before completing inoculation of adults. The city-state will open up […]
Scientists in the UK have urged the government to exercise caution when making a decision about a scheduled June 21 timeline for an end to all lockdown restrictions amid growing fears on Tuesday of a third wave of the coronavirus pandemic. Professor Ravi Gupta, an Indian-origin scientist from Cambridge University, said that while the infection rates in […]
This will be a zero-exam year as both class 10 and class 12 exams have been canceled this year. The decision to not hold any exams was taken after months of online protests by students and deliberations and meetings between stakeholders including education ministers and secretaries of states as well as high profile ministers including […]
Amazon is reported to begin steps for bringing high-speed satellite internet services to India soon, people familiar with the matter were quoted in an Economic Times report as saying. The move, according to reports, is set to spark off competition with arch-rivals OneWeb and SpaceX, in order to potentially drive down satellite broadband rates. Amazon will soon approach […]
Two senior US disease experts on Sunday said the world needs China’s cooperation in tracing the origins of Covid-19 to prevent future pandemic threats. According to Scott Gottlieb, a commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the Trump administration and now a board member of Pfizer Inc, there is more evidence to support […]
Experts from the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and the national task force for Covid-19 have advised undergoing a non-urgent surgery on a Covid-recovered patient only after six weeks of recovery to ensure faster healing and convalescent hearing. The experts are of the opinion that the RT-PCR tests which patients opting for non-urgent or […]
Vietnam hopes to tackle a new Covid outbreak by mass testing risk groups in Ho Chi Minh City and introducing new social distancing measures. The efforts come in response to a new cluster linked to a religious mission. Vietnam has had relative success in controlling the virus but cases have been rising over the past […]
The Andhra Pradesh government on Monday gave the green signal for the use of the traditional medicine, touted as a miracle cure particularly for Covid-19 patients, being prepared by an Ayurvedic practitioner B Anandaiah in Krishnapatnam village in SPS Nellore district. The government, however, did not permit Anandaiah to administer the eye drops that were […]
