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Dubai, Feb 3 : UAE airlines have announced the temporary suspension of passenger flights to Saudi Arabia, in accordance with fresh directives issued by the Kingdom banning passengers from 20 countries.The official websites of UAE carriers Etihad Airw…

London, Feb 3 : The Oxford-AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine showed 76 per cent efficacy against symptomatic infection for three months after a single dose, with protection maintained to the second dose, the pharmaceutical company said on Wednesday.The …

Dubai, Feb 3 : The UAE is building up its capacity to manufacture the Covid-19 vaccine in the future, and the country’s position is to provide as much support as it can to the international community, said Farida Al Hosani, official spokesperson for …

Dubai, Feb 3 : The Abu Dhabi Emergency, Crisis and Disasters Committee announced on Wednesday that in-classroom education would resume for all grades in Abu Dhabi schools from February 14.It confirmed that it had approved a preventive protocol specif…

New York, Feb 3 : Researchers, including one of Indian-origin, have identified that the Covid-19 virus may prompt the body to make weapons to attack its own tissues.According to the researchers, including Saborni Chakraborty from Stanford University …

Beijing, Feb 3 : China’s CanSino Biologics Inc. has got green light to continue phase-3 trials of its Covid-19 vaccine with the support of findings of an independent data monitoring committee, said media reports.The independent committee “found the d…

Geneva, Feb 3 : The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday slammed critics of its origin-tracing work on the novel coronavirus in the central Chinese city of Wuhan and voiced support for the team.Many critics claimed that they “won’t accept the re…

New York, Feb 3 : Researchers are developing a skin cancer treatment that involves injecting nanoparticles into the tumour, killing cancer cells with a two-pronged approach, as a potential alternative to surgery.The results, published in the journal …

Islamabad, Feb 3 : Nearly a year after the outbreak of the novel coronavirus disease (Covid-19) that claimed 11,746 lives and infected more than half a million in Pakistan, the government began vaccinating the frontline warriors on Tues-day, with a 5…

Berlin, Feb 3 : German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that every Covid-19 vaccine is welcome in the European Union as the bloc is facing vaccine delivery difficulties.Merkel made the remarks in a televised interview with the German public broadcast AR…