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'Uncommon' faecal epidemic sweeps through Australian music festival

People at Esoteric Festival in Victoria, Australia, were impacted by the shigellosis outbreak.
Published on Mar 20, 2024 02:09 pm IST

Covid-19: UK trial finds 2 more drugs reduce deaths, ICU stay

Fountains in Trafalgar Square are lit with blue lights to show support for the NHS in London, on January 7, 2021.
Updated on Jan 08, 2021 12:41 am IST

UK testing error wrongly tells 1,300 people they have coronavirus

The government has announced an extra 7 billion pounds ($9.31 billion) for its Covid-19 testing and contact tracing system.
Updated on Nov 28, 2020 03:53 pm IST

US agencies, including FBI, warn of ransomware attack on healthcare system

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) insignia (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)
Updated on Oct 29, 2020 11:41 am IST

Covid vaccine to be widely available by April, says CDC chief

Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, agreed Wednesday with the timeline of 700 million doses by April.
Updated on Sept 23, 2020 11:19 pm IST

Covid-19: UK announces stricter lockdown rules for England ahead of Eid

Reporters speak to a traveller arriving from Madrid at the Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport, as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in London.
Published on Jul 31, 2020 02:44 pm IST

Trump hasn’t asked us to slow testing: US Covid-19 task force members

US President Donald Trump had called coronavirus testing a “double-edged sword.”
Updated on Jun 24, 2020 10:14 am IST

Trump administration rolls back Obama-era health care protections for transgenders

For the Trump administration, this is the latest in a series of steps to revoke newly won protections for LGBTQ people.
Updated on Jun 13, 2020 07:13 am IST

Indian mission looking for alternative accommodation for coronavirus-affected expats in UAE: Reports

The novel coronavirus, which originated in China’s Wuhan city last December, has claimed over 160,000 lives and infected over 3.7 million people across the world so far.
Updated on Apr 19, 2020 02:22 pm IST

US working with drug firm on new coronavirus treatment

The United States is working with a pharmaceutical company to develop a treatment for the 2019 Novel Coronavirus
Published on Feb 05, 2020 07:34 am IST

Scrub typhus continues to claim maximum lives in HP

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Updated on Oct 05, 2019 11:31 pm IST

Cyclone Fani: Odisha govt distributes free sanitary napkins in Puri

A woman cooks inside her house destroyed by the cyclone ‘Fani’ in the Pratap Purushottampur village area of Puri in the eastern Indian state of Odisha on May 10, 2019.
Updated on May 19, 2019 08:06 am IST

Zika virus kills two in Madhya Pradesh, 84 affected in state

Two persons who tested positive for the Zika virus died over the past week, as the number of positive cases in Madhya Pradesh climbed to 84.
Updated on Nov 10, 2018 11:25 pm IST