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Geneva, June 23 : The global number of Covid cases has declined by six per cent, and the number of deaths by 12 per cent over the past week, the World Health Organisation has said.While the number of cases reported globally now exceeds 177 million, l…

Kuwait City, June 23 : Kuwait has decided to use armed forces to help implement the health measures adopted by the government last week to confront the spread of coronavirus, the Kuwait Municipality announced on Wednesday.Ahmad Al-Manfouhi, General D…

Chennai, June 23 : Stepping up their campaign against the Amazon Prime web series ‘The Family Man 2’, the members of the Eelam Tamil diaspora have urged the Tamil film industry to stop showing the victims of genocide in bad light.The controversial hi…

Paris, June 23 : The Delta variant of the novel coronavirus “must be of concern to us,” French government spokesperson Gabriel Attal warned on Wednesday, urging individual and collective vigilance to prevent a spiral of infections due to the more con…

Washington, June 23 : China’s infamous Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) lab has docked up some unspecified classified projects and responsibilities under China’s state secrets law, reveals a review of the lab’s public records and internal guidelines…

Moscow, June 23 : Russia has developed a test system for identifying Covid-19 virus’ antibodies in animal blood serum, according to the country’s Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Control, media reports said on Wednesday.”Only specific…

New York, June 23 : People who died of Covid-19 showed signs that were similar to the brains of individuals who died of neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease, according to a study.Both groups presented simil…

Male, June 23 : With the Covid-19 cases dropping below 200 in Maldives, the authorities on Wednesday lifted restrictions on domestic non-essential travel and also reduced curfew hours.The President’s spokesperson Mabrook Azeez on Tuesday announced th…

New York, June 23 : A mutation in the Gamma variant (P1) of coronavirus disease is linked to increased mortality, a Harvard T.H.Chan School of Public Health and MIT researchers said on Wednesday.The mutation also carries greater transmissibility, hig…

London, June 23 : A team of scientists at the University of Oxford have on Wednesday announced a trial to investigate the efficacy and safety of ivermectin — an antiparasitic drug — for people at more risk of serious illness from Covid-19.Previous …