Corona Updates

Beijing reported a new high in its Covid-19 caseload and two more deaths on Tuesday as authorities shut down parks, office buildings and shopping malls, moving the city’s most populous Chaoyang district closer to a full lockdown and urging…
Read More...

China’s capital Beijing posted a record number of new Covid cases on Tuesday, with the city hunkering down under a tightening chokehold of restrictions that have sent schools online, closed many restaurants and forced employees to work from…
Read More...

Two new Covid deaths were reported from China’s capital city of Beijing, heightening concern the city could see a return of tougher restrictions. China registered more than 27,000 new infections on Sunday, of which 2,365 were symptomatic…
Read More...

Everyone in a district of 1.8 million people in China’s southern metropolis of Guangzhou was ordered to stay home Saturday to undergo virus testing and a major city in the southwest closed schools as another rise in infections was reported.…
Read More...

Australia's Home Affairs Minister on Saturday sought to reassure the public that COVID-19 protocols were adequate after a cruise ship with hundreds of infected passengers docked in Sydney. Carnival Australia's Majestic Princess cruise ship…
Read More...

The risk of death, hospitalization and serious health issues from COVID-19 jumps significantly with reinfection compared with a first bout with the virus, regardless of vaccination status, a study published on Thursday suggests.…
Read More...

China on Thursday witnessed the highest single-day spike since April as the country reported over 10,200 Covid infections in the last 24 hours. With the capital city Beijing’s cases at the highest level in more than a year, the country’s…
Read More...

AstraZeneca’s Covid vaccine has been linked to a 30-percent higher risk of getting a very rare blood clotting condition compared to the Pfizer jab, a large international study said on Thursday. Several countries have already altered their…
Read More...

World Health Organization (WHO) chief scientist Dr Soumya Swaminathan on Thursday said that some countries may see “another wave of infections” with the XBB subvariant of Omicron. But the Indian clinical scientist also added that till now…
Read More...

देश में कोरोना की पहली और दूसरी लहर के दौरान सबसे ज्यादा प्रभावित रहने वाले राज्य महाराष्ट्र में XBB सब-वेरिएंट के कई मामले सामने आए हैं। महाराष्ट्र में अक्टूबर के पहले पखवाड़े में ओमिक्रॉन के एक्सबीबी सब-वेरिएंट के कम से कम 18 मामले सामने…
Read More...