COVID pandemic

Stockholm:  Scandinavian Airlines, the flag carrier of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, is set to cancel around 4,000 flights this summer due to staff shortages and delayed deliveries of aircraft, Swedish financial daily Dagens Industri (DI)…

Hyderabad:  Fuel, currency, and low fares - compared to other aviation markets in the region - are three challenges faced by airlines in India even as the country's aviation sector is on path to recovery from Covid pandemic, a top official…

New York: Evidence is mounting to show that organ donation from dying donors testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 appears to be safe and does not cause Covid-19 in the patient receiving the donated organ, according to a study. The Covid…

New Delhi: Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Thursday said that two most important pillars in India's fight against Covid pandemic are strong leadership and collective efforts. "As our action plan against Covid pandemic was…

Munich: The World Health Organization's (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has called for cooperation and collaboration in the face of common threats from the Covid-19 pandemic. The WHO chief made the remarks on Friday at…

New Delhi:  Over 1.5 crore of the adolescents between 15 and 18 age bracket have received both doses of the vaccine against the Covid pandemic. As per the government CoWIN portal, a total of 6,85,37,438 youngsters of this age group have…

New Delhi/Melbourne: The Foreign Ministers of Australia, India, and Japan, and the US Secretary of State met in Melbourne on Friday for the fourth Quad Foreign Ministers' Meeting, where they reaffirmed their commitment to supporting efforts…

Panaji:  In a major electoral promise, the Congress in Goa has promised to cap the price of petrol and diesel at Rs 80 per litre. In its election manifesto released by party leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday, the Congress has also promised…

New Delhi:  India has been facing the Covid pandemic for two years now and the pharma industry has witnessed ups and downs during this period while the government has introduced some policies to strengthen India's healthcare industry during…

New Delhi:  About 9 in 10 people have lost some degree of vision during the last two years of Covid pandemic, health experts said on Monday. It is because most of them skipped their regular eye check-ups and follow-ups due to…