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US: COVID infections are rising in the US, even requiring hospitalisation, amid soaring infections from the Delta variant of COVID-19 and lagging vaccination rates, media reports said. The American Academy of Pediatrics, in its…

US: TikTok was the world's most downloaded app last year, overtaking Facebook and its messaging platforms, market tracker App Annie said Tuesday. The Chinese-owned video app surged in popularity despite efforts by former…

SWITZERLAND: The World Health Organization on Tuesday urged the 20 leaders with the power to overturn the "disgraceful" global imbalance in access to Covid-19 vaccines to reverse the tide before October. The WHO's Bruce Aylward…

GUINEA: Health authorities in Guinea have confirmed the first death due to Marburg virus disease, a highly infectious disease that causes hemorrhagic fever similar to Ebola, the World Health Organisation has said. Marburg case…

US: A modified drug prescribed to treat tapeworms may be effective against COVID, according to a study conducted in lab. The team at the Scripps Research Institute in the US said it was known for 10 to 15 years that the class of…

Most people who got a booster shot of the Pfizer Inc.-BioNTech SE Covid-19 vaccine had similar or fewer side effects than they did after the second dose, according to a preliminary study conducted by Israel’s largest health maintenance…

Recent reports show that children are accounting for 15 per cent of COVID-19 cases in the U.S. as the delta variant causes an uptick in cases around the country. According to new data collected by the American Academy of…

Australia’s most populous state has expanded its Covid-19 lockdown to include a rural town and the coastal region of Byron Bay, as the city of Sydney recorded its highest daily case count since the beginning of the pandemic.…

Scientists from the world’s four major economies, India, China, Russia and Brazil, have come together to carry out genomic sequencing of Covid-19 and studies on the epidemiology and mathematical modelling of the pandemic. This…

The following is a roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for Covid-19. The mRNA vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech may be less effective than Moderna’s…