GENEVA – World health experts issued a grim warning Friday that the second year of Covid-19 was set to be “far more deadly”, as Japan extended a state of emergency amid growing calls for the Olympics to be scrapped. “We’re on track for the second year of this pandemic to be far more deadly than […]
BARAMULLA – Four shops were gutted in a fire on Tangmarg-Gulmarg road in North Kashmir’s Barmaulla district, an official said. No casualty was reported, he said. The fire broke out in one of the shops located in Tangmarg that spread to other three shops. All the four shops were guttled completely in the fire incident. […]
LONDON – The origin of the novel coronavirus is still unclear and the theory that it was caused by a laboratory leak needs to be taken seriously until there is a rigorous data-led investigation that proves it wrong, a group of leading scientists said. Covid-19, which emerged in China in late 2019, has killed 3.34 […]
WASHINGTON – The UN Security Council will meet this weekend to discuss the situation in Israel and the Gaza Strip, the US announced Thursday. In announcing the Sunday meeting, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the US’s UN envoy, said the Biden administration “will continue to actively engage in diplomacy at the highest levels to try to de-escalate tensions.” […]
WASHINGTON – White House chief medical adviser Dr Anthony Fauci said in an interview on Thursday that dramatically ramping up Covid-19 vaccination drive is key to ending the crisis in India and extending the gap between two doses of Covishield is a “reasonable approach”. “When you are in a very difficult situation, the way you […]
NEW DELHI – India on Friday registered 343,144 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, taking the country’s total coronavirus infection tally past the 24-million mark. 4,000 new fatalities were recorded, taking the death toll to 262,317. The country’s total case count has now reached 24,046,809, according to the Union health ministry’s dashboard. The […]
SRINAGAR – As the surge of covid positive cases in District Srinagar continues to infect more and more persons, the administration of tertiary hospitals are capitalizing all their resources to enhance capacity for catering to the demand of treatment of severe SAR COV2 patients through augmentation of bed capacity, oxygen supply and manpower. The administration […]
NEW DELHI – As India continues to battle the second wave of Covid-19, a story of a son singing ‘Tera mujhe hai pehle ka naata koi’ on the last call to his mother suffering from the coronavirus has left netizens in tears. The heartbreaking account was shared on Twitter by a doctor attending the patient, […]
NEW DELHI – Amid reports of the shortage of COVID-19 vaccine in various states, Sputnik vaccine has arrived in India, and “hopefully” it will be available in the market from next week, said Dr VK Paul, member (health) of the NITI Aayog, on Thursday. “Sputnik vaccine has arrived in India. I’m happy to say that […]
SRINAGAR – No congregational Eid prayers were offered at Hazratbal shrine, Jamia Masjid and other major shrines across Jammu and Kashmir in wake of the lockdown imposed by the administration to thwart the spread of Coronavirus. Witnesses said that police and paramilitary troopers have been deployed in strength on roads across Srinagar and roads have […]