Oxford University has announced it will resume a trial for a coronavirus vaccine it is developing with pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca after getting the green light from safety watchdogs. The late-stage trials of... Read more »
Chennai-based multi-speciality hospital MGM Healthcare has claimed to have performed Asia’s first bilateral lung transplant on a coronavirus-positive patient. The patient is a COVID-19 survivor. He is a 48-year-old businessman who had... Read more »
As many as 114 prisoners at the Puzhal Central Prison have tested positive for COVID-19 and 99 of them have recovered so far, according to Health Minister C. Vijayabaskar. The patients were... Read more »
New Zealand on Sunday marked 100 days since it stamped out the spread of the coronavirus, a rare bright spot in a world that continues to be ravaged by the disease. Fiji... Read more »
There’s finally good news for fitness enthusiasts, trainers and owners. The Tamil Nadu state government has decided to reopen Gyms and Fitness Centres across the state from August 10, after a gap... Read more »
After Glenmark and Cipla, two more Indian pharma companies — Sun Pharmaceuticals and Zenara Pharma have got approval to manufacture Favipiravir in the country to treat coronavirus. Favipiravir was originally developed to... Read more »
The all-female Afghan Robotics Team, which has won international awards for its robots, started work in March on an open-source, low-cost ventilator as the coronavirus pandemic hit the war-torn nation. It took... Read more »
The country’s second plasma bank has been set up at the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital (RGGGH) here at a cost of Rs 2 crore. Delhi is the first city in India... Read more »
The Greater Chennai Corporation has conducted more than 5 lakh RT-PCR tests for COVID-19, making it the city the first in the country to achieve the feat. The Corporation Commissioner G. Prakash... Read more »
We all need to play our part in protecting ourselves and the community around us to prevent the spread of the virus. These 3 simple steps could help to protect ourselves and... Read more »