China places 17 million residents of Shenzhen under Covid Lockdown: Govt
BEIJING: The southern Chinese tech hub Shenzhen was put under a citywide lockdown Sunday, the local government announced, after it reported 66 new coronavirus cases and sealed...
World should be back to near-normal in ‘a few months’, frequent boosters ‘not a...
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla told the Hebrew publication N12 News in an exclusive interview that the best way to combat COVID-19 is a vaccine that can be...
Man donates kidney to girlfriend’s mother, but she marries someone else a month after...
Mexico: A man has said that he was dumped by his girlfriend - weeks after he donated his kidney to her mother.
Uziel Martínez,...
Chief “WHO”optimistic COVID pandemic will be beaten in 2022
Geneva: The World Health Organisation (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that he is optimistic that the COVID-19 pandemic will be defeated in 2022, provided countries work...
Indonesia, Pakistan Among Others Allowed Direct Entry To The Kingdom
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has allowed direct entry of travelers from Indonesia, Pakistan, Brazil, Vietnam, Egypt and India starting from next Wednesday corresponding to December 1st, 2021
First Oral antiviral for COVID-19, Pill (molnupiravir), approved by MHRA
The antiviral Lagevrio (molnupiravir) is safe and effective at reducing the risk of hospitalisation and death in people with mild to moderate COVID-19 who are at increased...
Pfizer Says COVID pill cut Hospital, Death Risk by 90%
WASHINGTON: Pfizer Inc. said Friday that its experimental antiviral pill for COVID-19 cut rates of hospitalization and death by nearly 90% in high-risk adults, as the drugmaker...
Pfizer says its booster restores full protection against Covid
Washington, October 22: Pfizer and BioNTech has announced that a large-scale trial of their Covid-19 vaccine booster showed it restored full protection against the disease.
FB, Insta, WhatsApp outage: Mark Zuckerberg issues apology
Washington: Apologising for the disruption in the services of Facebook, Whatsapp and Instagram, tech giant's CEO Mark Zuckerberg has stated that services are returning online on Tuesday.
FB, Insta, WhatsApp Hit by global outage
October 04: Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp went offline for users across the globe, the social media giant said on Monday, as it worked on restoring the services...
Risk of hospitalisations higher with Delta variant: UK New study
London: Those infected with the Delta variant of COVID-19 in the UK have been found to be twice as likely to be admitted to hospital compared to...
