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The 14-member team of scientists, belonging to the World Health Organisation (WHO), investigating the origin of the Coronavirus has backed the ruling Communist Party's claims that "cold-chain products" such as...

Oldsmar: The local administrations in US towns and cities were on high alert after a daring plan was foiled by an alert supervisor recently. A hacker had devised a sophisticated...

Geneva: The World Health Organization and its Covax partners have cautioned against dismissing AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine after several setbacks, insisting it remained an important, life-saving tool. The AstraZeneca vaccine is...

Researchers have developed a new method using artificial intelligence (AI) to counter emergent mutations of the coronavirus. They say it can hasten vaccine development to stop the pathogen. The study,...

Kathmandu: Leaked documents of correspondence between Nepal’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Kathmandu’s Chinese Embassy showed that China had put pressure on Nepal to accept its COVID-19 vaccine without its...

London: Nurses and female health care workers are most at risk of experiencing psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic, says a study, carried out by the University of Sheffield, UK....

Wuhan: While searching for COVID-19 origin in the Chinese city Wuhan, a member of the World Health Organization (WHO) said work was required to try and trace the origin of...

New York: Jeff Bezos is stepping down as Amazon CEO. The 57-year American, who became the world’s first person to amass a $200 billion-plus fortune in August 2020, founded Amazon...

New Delhi: The COVID-19 vaccine developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca give good immune responses in older people, even if there is a lack of data about its exact efficacy,...

New Delhi: The UK variant of deadly novel coronavirus has mutated again. Scientists have observed new genetic changes in the COVID-19 variant, already said to be more contagious and possibly...