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Washington, Sep 5 : The US has detected about 2,000 cases of the new Mu variant of Covid, media reports said.Early this week, the World Health Organisation (WHO) designated Mu or “B.1.621” as a variant of interest (VOI) for its vaccine resistance.Fir…
Chennai, Sep 5 : Tamil Nadu is planning to organise 10,000 Covid vaccination camps on next Sunday to inoculate 20 lakh people on a single day, state Health minister Ma Subramanian said on Sunday.”We are conducting these camps, as directed by our Chie…
Hyderabad, Sep 5 : Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu on Sunday called for improving the doctor-population ratio in the country.He also underlined the need to improve the healthcare infrastructure and increase the number of medical colleges in the coun…
Toronto, Sep 5 : In a bid to resist male harassment and unwanted mating attempts, female octopuses were observed throwing debris, finds an interesting study led by a team from Australia, Canada and the US.The study, published on the pre-print server …
New Delhi, Sep 5 : An Indian filmmaker’s documentary about pollution caused due to cement plants in the erstwhile forested areas of Meghalaya has bagged the first place at the ‘2021 Yale Environment 360 Video Contest’.The documentary titled “The Stor…
Shimla, Sep 5 : With the demand for facemasks going up amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, 12,000 women of 1,500 self-help groups (SHGs) in 12 districts of Himachal Pradesh have stitched over 40 lakh masks through hand-operated machines, as per a minister….
London, Sep 5 : The UK’s vaccine advisory body has declined to grant approval for inoculating healthy children aged 12-15 years citing lack of sufficient evidence, and has also ceded authority on the decision to the country’s top medical officers, ac…
London, Sep 5 : Sugar feeding prior to having an infected blood meal could protect a mosquito’s ability to get infected and transmit arboviruses such as Zika, dengue and chikungunya, according to a new study.The finding, published in the journal PLOS…
Agra, Sep 5 : Half a dozen of state government officials were suspended in Uttar Pradesh’s Firozabad after an alarming surge in cases of Dengue, viral fever, and some “unspecified” ailment. Action was also taken against a couple of others in Mathura …
Chennai, Sep 5 : Tamil Nadu has stepped up fever surveillance at the borders after a 12-year-old boy from Kerala died due to Nipah on Sunday early morning.State health minister, Ma Subramanian told IANS, “After we received the information about the b…