Retired Boston Red Sox player David Ortiz says he’s recovering after being diagnosed with COVID-19. Ortiz said Friday that he was asymptomatic, but that his brother who was also infected had to spend a week in the hospital and lost 25 pound...

Bill Gates just can’t stop spouting his opinions on the coronavirus these days. In his latest spiel, the plutocrat has forecast that the pandemic will have concluded by 2022 – thanks to vaccines in which he’s he...

Lebanon confirms record 1,006 COVID-19 cases, 11 deaths

ebanon confirmed a record 1,006 new coronavirus cases and 11 deaths Sunday, as caretaker Health Minister Hamad Hasan called for a total lockdown to stem the worrying spread of the virus.

Two people have fallen ill during the trials of AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine in the UK, the company’s internal papers revealed, and a source said they had both suffered from the same serious neurological di...

New Delhi: Hitting out at the central government for its “mismanagement” in handling the Covid-19 pandemic, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor urged the Centre to become more transparent in its functioning and recognise the “follies” of the current...

New Delhi: A total of 32,238 Central Armed Police Force (CAPF) personnel tested positive for Covid-19 so far, the Parliament was informed on Sunday. Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai told the Lok Sabha, in a written reply, that the C...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha is now in a better position to manage the COVID-19 situation which is climbing at an alarming rate across the country. In Odisha, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik had recently directed his team of officials to ensure that a...

Several hundred people smashed up storefronts, torched American flags and harassed motorists in Portland, Oregon, following a brief lull in nearly nightly riots due to wildfires tearing through the state....

Former President Bill Clinton has called President Donald Trump’s decision to fill the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Supreme Court seat “superficially hypocritical.” His own party colleagues aren’t above th...

The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on Sunday informed that second round of the countrywide serosurvey for COVID-19 has been successfully completed and the final phase analysis of the survey is now underway. "The second round of c...

A complaint has been filed against Assam minister Pijush Hazarika for allegedly violating COVID-19 protocols by addressing a poll rally in Baksa district, police said on Sunday. Hazarika, the Minister of State for Health, addressed a rally...

The Iranian rial hit a fresh low against the US dollar on Sunday, shortly after Washington unilaterally restored sweeping sanctions on Tehran, despite opposition from the international community and its own alli...

French giants Paris Saint-Germain have reportedly opened talks with Tottenham Hotspur to sign Dele Alli, who was left out of a second consecutive matchday squad by manager Jose Mourinho on Sunday....

Cuttack: Taking into account the prevelance of COVID-19 positive cases in some sections of the High Court, the Orissa HC and its offices will remain closed on September 21 and 22. This period will be used for extensive sanitisation of the p...

Bhubaneswar: Another 4018 patients have recovered from COVID-19 in Odisha and are being discharged on Sunday, informed the Health & Family Welfare Department. With this, the total recovered cases of Odisha now stand at 145675. District-wise...

The ICMR is actively exploring saliva-based test for detection of COVID-19, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said on Sunday and asserted that no significant or drastic mutation in strains of SARS-CoV-2 has been found in India till now. D...

Russia’s labor market is set to rebound by the end of 2021, with the unemployment rate falling below five percent, according to documents related to the national budget plan. The situ...

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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has expressed confidence that Washington’s bid to unilaterally reimpose UN sanctions on his country will fail, noting that even US allies oppose the decision....

Taking note of instances of suspected COVID-19 reinfection reported from Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Gujarat, Delhi and Maharashtra, the Union Health Ministry is considering gathering data of such cases to ascertain their veracity, so...

A California judge on Sunday blocked the US Department of Commerce from enforcing President Donald Trump’s executive order that requires the Chinese messenger WeChat to be removed from app stores in the US....

A self-proclaimed alien hunting expert believes he has discovered a 16-meter tall alien robot hiding out in extraterrestrial enthusiasts’ Mecca, the mysterious Area 51. Scott C Waring...

The Ghanaian sports world is in mourning today following the deaths of eight young football players in a tragic accident on Saturday after a bus plunged into the the Offinso river. Si...

India has extended a USD 250 million loan to the Maldives government to mitigate the impact of the Covid-19. "USD 250 million assistance provided to the Maldives by India, as budgetary and revenue support for mitigating impact of the COVID-...

Fourteen more people died of coronavirus in Rajasthan on Sunday, raising the death toll to 1,336, while 1,865 fresh cases pushed the infection count in the state to 1,14,989

Son Heung-min and Harry Kane made Premier League history as Tottenham Hotspur destroyed Southampton 5-2 on Sunday, as the former bagged a four-goal haul with all four strikes assisted by the latter....

Following is a summary of current health news briefs.

Sound science "will be the sole basis" for safe and effective therapies to be adopted, the WHO says.

Bhubaneswar: People who are afflicted with COVID-19 are potentially capable of infecting others one or two days before showing symptoms. This contagious phase continues for a period of two weeks, therefore one must be very careful during th...