LONDON, October 20 (Thomson Reuters Foundation): Funding to fight HIV among gay and bisexual men and transgender women is a fraction of what it should be, researchers said on Tuesday, with advocates blamin
CARDIFF, October 19 (Reuters): Wales will impose a two-week "fire-break" lockdown from Friday in which everybody apart from essential workers must stay at home to combat an accelerating second wa
NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 18 (IANS): Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Sunday admitted that India is in the community transmission stage.
However, it is limited only to certain districts and states. The statem
New Delhi, October 17 (IANS): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday reviewed the Covid-19 pandemic situation in the country and the preparedness of vaccine delivery, distribution, and administration.
The
HANOI, October 16 (Reuters): Vietnam's first Formula One grand prix has been officially cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, organisers said on Friday.
The Vietnamese Grand Prix was originally sc
LONDON, October 11 (Reuters): Britain is at a "tipping point" in the coronavirus crisis and the country must act now to stop history repeating itself, the deputy chief medical officer for England
Kohima, October 9 (MExN): On World Mental Health Day, the Nagaland State Mental Health Programme (NMHP) has emphasized the need to prioritize mental health especially in the back drop of the COVID-19 pande
Kohima, October 9 (MExN): The Election Commission of India has revised guidelines concerning star campaigners for all ongoing and future elections during the period of COVID-19 pandemic, Nagaland Chief Electora
October 9 (Reuters) - Next year's Tokyo marathon has been rescheduled from March to until after the delayed Olympics due to the ongoing concerns caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, organisers said on Friday ht
NEW YORK, OCTOBER 9 (IANS): Most countries are failing to invest in nature-related economic reforms or investments in their Covid-19 pandemic recovery plans, says a study.
Indeed, some countries, including t
New Delhi, October 8 (PTI): United States President Donald Trump has warned that China will have to "pay a big price" for the spread of coronavirus globally.
Less than 50 hours after he returned to
Sydney, October 6 (IANS): New research has added to the growing body of evidence that the Covid-19 pandemic is taking a heavy mental health toll even on people who are not directly impacted by the disease.
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WASHINGTON, October 6 (Reuters): Defying critics, U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday said Americans were learning to live with COVID-19, a day after returning to the White House for further intensive t
New Delhi, October 6 (IANSlife): The COVID-19 pandemic continues to grip India, however the lockdown restrictions have been gradually eased up. In the past few months, patients chose to delay non-critical and e
NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 4 (IANS): Students would need written consent from their parents before attending classes at school, while attendance would not be made mandatory, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said on
VATICAN CITY, October 4 (Reuters): Pope Francis said on Sunday that the COVID-19 pandemic was the latest crisis to prove that market forces alone and "trickle-down" economic policies had failed t
NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 4 (IANS): The Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) on Sunday said that the RBI had affirmed the possibility of currency notes as potential carriers of novel coronavirus and demanded gove
New York, October 2 (IANS): New York City, once the worst-hit by the Covid-19 pandemic in the world, has now reached a milestone on the road to recovery by opening its schools for in-person teaching and startin
LONDON, October 2 (Reuters): A major non-profit health emergencies group has set up a global laboratory network to assess data from potential COVID-19 vaccines, allowing scientists and drugmakers to compar
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The global coronavirus death toll surpassed a million on Tuesday, according to a Reuters tally, a bleak statistic in a pandemic that has devastated the global economy, overloaded health systems and t