HEALTH

Old couple found dead at home in UP's Banda

Study: In pandemic era, older adults isolated but resilient

11:17 pm January 13, 2021

Washington: Since the pandemic’s descent, they have generally been viewed as among those at higher risk — older Americans, some of them medically vulnerable, figuring out how to navigate life in a COVID-saturated, increasingly isolated world. That’s one type of health — physical. When it comes to mental and emotional health, older adults in the United States are […]

Delhi has less than a day’s stock of Covaxin for 45-plus age group: Atishi

Bharat Biotech set to dispatch first consignment of Covaxin

2:55 pm January 12, 2021

Hyderabad : Bharat Biotech, which has received Emergency Use Authorisation approval from the Drug Controller General of India for its COVID-19 vaccine Covaxin,is set to dispatch it from the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport here on Tuesday evening, a senior official of the Airports cargo division said. ”Today we have received the first consignment of vaccines […]

Delhi-based Kashmiri scribes, over 25 people from Valley were potential spying targets: Report

OPD services at Rajiv Gandhi hospital to resume tomorrow

9:23 pm January 10, 2021

New Delhi: Doctors at Delhi government-run Rajiv Gandhi Super Speciality Hospital (RGSSH) are slated to conduct a heart bypass surgery on Monday, which will be the first operation to be done there since it was declared a dedicated coronavirus facility nearly 10 months ago, officials said. The national capital had reported its first coronavirus case […]

Pfizer vaccine may protect against UK variant of coronavirus, study claims

10:20 pm January 8, 2021

New Delhi: Scientists have found evidence that the COVID-19 vaccine co-developed by the US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and German biotechnology company BioNTech may protect against the novel coronavirus variant which originated in the UK and has been reported in several parts of the world, including India. In a yet-to-be peer reviewed research, scientists from the University of Texas Medical Branch in the US, […]

12-year-old boy suffering from bird flu dies at AIIMS in Delhi

Another dry run for COVID vaccination roll-out in Delhi; AIIMS, Safdarjung among sites

11:49 pm January 7, 2021

New Delhi: The authorities will on Friday conduct the second dry run for the COVID-19 vaccination roll-out in Delhi that will span across at least three districts of the national capital, officials said. These districts are South Delhi, South East Delhi and North West Delhi, they said. The first dry run for COVID-19 vaccination roll-out was held in Delhi on January 2 for which […]