COVID-19 pandemic

Geneva: The World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Wednesday of a sharp increase in the prevalence of anxiety and depression related to the Covid-19 pandemic, caused largely by social isolation. Young people and women are the worst hit.…

New Delhi: Ukrainian citizens flooded the country's ATMs in an attempt to withdraw their money as the military conflict with Russia intensified. Russians have also been queuing at the banks, RT reported. Long queues of people trying to…

New Delhi: The Covid-19 pandemic has rendered nearly 19 lakh children in India without a parent or caregiver -- the highest in the South-East Asia region, according to new figures published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health…

New Delhi:  As tensions between Russia and Ukraine remain high, the Tata Group-led Air India will run three direct flights to Kyiv to bring back stranded Indians from the East European country. Accordingly, Air India will operate three…

Chennai: Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) has provided Rs 7,419.56 crore as a separate mortality reserve for April -September 30, 2021 for Covid-19 pandemic. The LIC in its Draft Red Herring Prospectus (DRHP) has said for fiscal…

London:  The UK has detected a deadly haemorrhagic fever with "pandemic potential", the country's health officials have said. Lassa fever is an acute viral haemorrhagic illness, similar to Ebola, and people become infected through…

Washington:  Preprint studies have mushroomed during the last two years of Covid-19 pandemic, but they may be harming evidence, scientists have argued. Preprints are a version of a scientific paper that has often not been peer-reviewed…

New York: Among the many hard lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic is that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid infections, can affect every organ system in the body, including the brain. Approximately one third of all patients with…

Seoul:  Hyundai Motor, South Korea's biggest carmaker, has announced its sales fell 12 per cent last month from a year earlier amid global chip shortages. Hyundai Motor sold 2,82,204 vehicles in January, down from 3,21,068 units a year…

Colombo:  Sri Lanka received 82,327 tourists in January compared to 1,682 arrivals in the same month last year, despite challenges from the Covid-19 pandemic and the Omicron variant, official data revealed. The data from the Sri Lanka…