Health

Britain has seen one of the world’s quickest vaccine rollouts LONDON: Britain has offered all over-50s the first dose of Covid-19 vaccine as the rollout of Moderna’s shot in England began on Tuesday, the government said, adding it…
Read More...

The South Asian country reported a record 168,912 infections overnight bringing the overall tally to 13.53 million NEW DELHI: India reported a record daily tally of 168,912 Covid-19 infections on Monday, the world’s highest, while…
Read More...

Available data shows Chinese vaccines lag behind others including Pfizer and Moderna in terms of efficacy BEIJING: China’s top disease control official has said the country is formally considering mixing Covid-19 vaccines as a way of…
Read More...

With imported doses still in short supply the country has a rapidly ageing population totalling 126 million TOKYO: Japan began Covid-19 vaccinations for its sizable elderly population on Monday, with imported doses still in short…
Read More...

Liver of 28-year-old patients was taken out of his body before being reimplanted.The patient is in the recovery stage after the successful surgery.20 procedures have been performed across the globe so far. KARACHI: Pakistan's first…
Read More...

Surgeons worldwide have been performing lung transplants in Covid-19 survivors with irreversible lung damage The following is a roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and…
Read More...

Led by India's record daily infections, the region accounts for 11% of global cases and almost 6% of deaths Coronavirus infections in the South Asia sub-region surpassed the grim milestone of 15 million on Saturday,…
Read More...

At least 15,329 people have fallen prey to the pandemic in the country KARACHI/LAHORE/ISLAMABAD: The country on Saturday reported at least 100 deaths from Covid-19 – the second consecutive day for such grim statistics – and recorded…
Read More...

Iran’s Covid cases surpassed 2 million with a new daily average of over 20,000 infections over the past week Iran imposed a 10-day lockdown across most of the country on Saturday to curb the spread of a fourth wave of the coronavirus…
Read More...

After production tripled from Feb 1 through late March to 5 million doses a day, says Chinese govt CHENGDU, CHINA: China’s will likely have produced 3 billion doses of Covid-19 vaccines by the end of the year, a National Health…
Read More...