World Bank approves additional financing for Kerala project

The World Bank's Board of Directors have approved a $150 million loan to support the 'Resilient Kerala Program' to...

Ocean warming can trigger viral outbreaks within corals

The breathtaking colours of reef-building corals come from photosynthetic algae that live inside the corals. A...

UAE issues travel advisory against dangerous Marburg virus

Disease is passed on to people from fruit bats and is from the same virus family responsible for the deadly Ebola. ...

Indian Air Travel is now at 85 per cent of 2019 level, says IATA

In India, with concerns of new COVID-19 outbreaks fading, airlines saw a significant improvement in domestic air...

Marburg vaccine shows promising results in first-in-human study

A newly published paper in The Lancet shows that an experimental vaccine against Marburg virus (MARV) was safe and...

China: COVID outbreaks depict lack of efficacy of its vaccines

Turkish government which initially accepted Chinese vaccines is now scrutinising its efficacy after learning of...

Fresh signs COVID-19 is spreading rapidly in China

After China abandoned its restrictive "zero Covid" policy about two weeks ago, regional numbers of infected persons...

China COVID outbreaks point towards lack of efficacy of vaccines

Rising COVID cases in China act as a cause of concern, especially for countries that China supplies its vaccines to.

World Bank cuts 2022 China growth forecast to 2.7 pc from 4.3 pc

In a report -- Navigating Uncertainty, China's Economy in 2023 -- by World Bank, the lender said that confronted...

Global cholera surge likely accelerated by climate change: WHO

"The situation is quite unprecedented, for not only we are seeing more outbreaks, but these outbreaks are larger and...

China's ineffective vaccines now world's problem: Report

Repeated explosive outbreaks of Covid in China along with tested and proven lack of effectiveness of its vaccines,...

67-year-old Pune man found Zika virus positive

A case was found infected with the Zika virus in the Bavdhan area of Pune. Entomological survey of the Zika virus...