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Geneva: People exposed to the novel coronavirus should be tested even if they do not show immediate symptoms of infection. The World Health Organisation (WHO) repeated it advice on Thursday…

London: The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Tuesday said the planet is nowhere near the amount of coronavirus immunity needed to induce herd immunity. Herd immunity is typically…

New Delhi/Kuala lumpur: A new strain of the novel coronavirus called 'D614G', deemed 10 times more infectious, has been detected in Malaysia, Director General of Health Noor Hisham Abdullah…

Going by what pharmaceutical and public-health experts are saying, we will have to live with coronavirus for some years to come despite the vaccine. The virus will be like flu and other…

Bhubaneswar: Odisha is among the top five states to have conducted the most number of daily COVID-19 tests per million population, according to data released by the Ministry of Health and…

Hyderabad: The Chief Scientist of World Health Organisation (WHO), Soumya Swaminathan said that India has a low testing rate compared to some countries that are successfully trying to curb…

Geneva: Warning the world's populace against complacency about the coronavirus in the northern hemisphere summer, the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Tuesday said that this virus did…

New Delhi: Around 160 vaccines currently are being developed for COVID-19, and 25 of these are in human trial phases, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). These include Zydus…

London: The chief scientist of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Dr Soumya Swaminathan, has warned that the concept of “herd immunity” (a large section of the population developing…

Johannesburg: Traditional medicine could have a role to play in containing the spread of coronavirus. As the pandemic spreads rapidly in Africa, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the…