Oximeter

New York : The US has started to distribute free N95 masks while a clinical study has been launched to evaluate a specific vaccine targeting the rampant Omicron variant of Covid-19.Free N95 masks are now available at some US stores as part…

Berlin : German biotechnology company BioNTech and US company Pfizer have started clinical trials of an Omicron-based Covid-19 vaccine candidate in healthy adults aged from 18 to 55 years, the companies have said.The trials would evaluate…

Delhi : While Covid-19 has primarily been a respiratory disease, about 90 per cent of people with moderate to severe infections have lasting effects on the heart, said experts here.Covid affects lungs the most, but studies have shown there…

London : The Omicron variant of Covid is highly contagious but is known to cause less severe disease than Delta. This is after being better at escaping immune protection by vaccinations and previous infections. However, the reasons for this…

Hong Kong : Despite low absolute risk, there is an increased relative risk of carditis a type of heart inflammation associated with Covid vaccine developed by US drugmaker Pfizer and China's CoronaVac, researchers have found.The findings,…

Washington : Amid an ongoing resurgence across the world, the global coronavirus caseload has topped 354.3 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 5.60 million and vaccinations to over 9.81 billion, according to Johns Hopkins…

Copenhagen : Two years after the Covid-19 pandemic in Europe and central Asia, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said the region could be "entering a new phase in the pandemic with plausible hope for stabilisation.""The pandemic is…

Geneva : It is dangerous to assume that Omicron will be the last variant, or the pandemic is going to end, when global conditions are seen as ideal for more Covid variants to emerge, said the World Health Organization (WHO) chief on…

New Delhi : Covid has still got a "long, long way" to go and is "still very serious" despite some optimism the end is in sight in Europe, the World Health Organisation's special envoy on the virus said, Sky News reported.Dr David Nabarro…

New York : The "nocebo effect" accounted for more than two-thirds of the common side effects people experience after a Covid-19 vaccination rather than the vaccine itself, according to a new study.The placebo effect is the well-known…