Disease

Italy will complete the vaccination of 80 percent of the country’s population by next September in response to the Corona epidemic. The local media quoted the country’s emergency commissioner, General Francisco Figueroa, as saying in a...

Andaman and Nicobar Island’s COVID-19 caseload rose to 7,131 as 12 more people tested positive for the virus, while one fresh fatality pushed the death toll in the union territory to 123, a health department official...

Vietnam has discovered a new Covid-19 variant which spreads quickly by air and is a combination of the Indian and British strains, health officials confirmed Saturday. The country is struggling to deal with fresh outbreaks across...

The number of deaths linked to Covid-19 in India has moved past the 300,000 mark as the country continues to grapple with the pandemic. Experts warn that the real number of fatalities might be much higher...

Acute coronavirus infection has spread in the Himalayas. The virus has already been detected in at least 100 mountaineers and their associates. Austrian mountaineering guide Lucas Fartenbach canceled his mountaineering last week for fear of coronavirus,...

India has reported more than 8,800 cases of deadly “black fungus” in a growing epidemic of the disease. The normally rare infection, called mucormycosis, has a mortality rate of 50%, with some only saved by removing...

Two decades ago, Soumya Swaminathan watched her HIV-infected patients suffer often horrific and unnecessary deaths. There was a treatment for their disease, but they simply could not afford it. The World Health Organization’s chief scientist told...

A top Indian virologist has resigned from a forum of scientific advisers set up by the government to detect variants of the coronavirus, days after questioning the authorities’ handling of the pandemic. Shahid Jameel, chair of...

California was praised for acting swiftly to contain the coronavirus last spring. Now more than 31,000 people have died of the virus in the state. What went wrong? California was the first to issue a state-wide...

Cases of mucormycosis, which is also commonly known as black fungus, have been reported amongst those who have recovered from Covid-19 in India. The number of such cases has increased in Gujarat. Also, the state sees...