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Geneva: Since the start of the pandemic, affordable and sustainable access to oxygen has been a growing challenge in low- and middle-income countries. COVID-19 has put huge pressure on health systems, with hospitals in many LMICs running…

London: Researchers have estimated that a total of 20.5 million years of life have been lost due to Covid-19 worldwide with an average of 16 years per individual death. The years of life lost rate is the difference between an…

Bhubaneswar: Indian-American Bhavya Lal was on Monday appointed by NASA as the Chief of Staff of the US space agency. As the senior White House appointee at NASA, Lal served as a member of the Biden Presidential Transition Agency Review…

Tokyo: The Japanese government will consider whether to declare another state of emergency over the Covid-19 pandemic, Yasutoshi Nishimura, the minister in charge of Japan's Covid response, has said. Nishimura's remarks followed a…

Los Angeles: Women directors comprise 16 per cent of filmmakers calling the shots on the 100 highest-grossing Hollywood films in 2020, according to a study from the Center For The Study Of Women In Television And Film at San Diego State…

Ramallah: Palestine is set to receive the first shipment of Covid-19 vaccines within two weeks, a top official said here. Addressing a news briefing on Saturday, government spokesman Kamal al-Shakhra said that the Palestinian Health…

San Francisco: Elon Musk-run SpaceX will start flight testing its Super Heavy booster (starting with low-altitude "hops") in a few months from now. Super Heavy booster will be used to fly Starship for orbital launches and deeper space…

San Francisco: California has become the first state in the US to surpass 2 million coronavirus cases since the onset of the pandemic earlier this year. On Friday, the California Department of Public Health confirmed 39,070 new cases and…

London: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Saturday announced new stricter coronavirus restrictions for London and parts of England to combat an alarming surge in infections linked to a new virulent strain. The planned relaxation of…

New York: "In this battle for the soul of America, democracy prevailed," declared Joseph Robinette Biden after his election as the 46th president of the United States and Kamala Harris made history as the first woman and the first Indian…