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London, Feb 26 : After analysing the genetic characteristics that determine the size of good cholesterol particles, a team of researchers has demonstrated that not all good cholesterol is healthy.The findings indicate that people with large high-dens…

Istanbul, Feb 26 : Turkey on Friday introduced a series of drastic measures in several provinces where the number of the Covid-19 daily cases are significantly on the rise.Local authorities in the northwestern Sakarya province banned all the activiti…

Jerusalem, Feb 26 : The number of people vaccinated against the Covid-19 virus in Israel has reached 4,649,709, the state’s Ministry of Health said on Friday.Israel has thus vaccinated about 50 per cent of its population of about 9.3 million, since t…

Hong Kong, Feb 26 : Hong Kong started the Covid-19 vaccine rollout on Friday for priority groups, including medical workers and the aged, a week after the arrival of the first batch of mainland-made doses.The vaccine was given at five community vacci…

New York, Feb 26 : Pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and BioNTech said that they have begun an evaluation of the safety and immunogenicity of a third dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine (BNT162b2).It is to understand the effect of a booster on…

Los Angeles, Feb 26 : Academy Award-winner Barry Jenkins directs the new series, The Underground Railroad, which is all set to premier digitally on May 14.The 10-episode limited series is based on Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel of th…

New York, Feb 26 : Staying at home due to the Covid-19 pandemic had positive effects on the health and well-being of many residents in the US, a new survey reveals.According to the researchers, despite a shutdown of gyms and movement restrictions on …

New York, Feb 26 : A team of researchers has developed a stamp-sized chip that may help diagnose Covid-19 in just 55 minutes.The researchers, including lead author Peter Lillehoj from Rice University in ths US, said that Covid-19 can be diagnosed in …

London, Feb 26 : Queen Elizabeth II has urged the citizens to “think about other people” and get a Covid dose when they are offered one.The monarch, 94, and the Duke of Edinburgh, 99, received their first doses of the vaccine in January, the BBC repo…

London, Feb 26 : Even as the UK’s West Minister’s Magistrate court on Thursday cleared the decks for the extradition of fugitive diamond merchant Nirav Modi in connection with the Rs 13,500 crore Punjab National Bank fraud case, District Judge Samuel…