World Health Organisation recommends new vaccine for malaria prevention

WHO also issued recommendations on the advice of SAGE for new vaccines for dengue and meningitis, along with immunisation schedules and product recommendations for COVID-19

Minor boy in Pakistan kills his entire family under ‘PUBG influence’

In a rather shocking incident, a 14-year-old boy in Pakistan allegedly shot and killed his entire family including his mother and two minor sisters “under the influence” of the online game PUBG, said police in the capital of Pakistan’s Punjab province on Friday. As per reports, the incident took place last week. Nahid Mubarak, a […]

Assam: ICMR develops testing kit to detect Omicron in just two hours

The Indian Council of Medical Research Centre (ICMR) at Lahowal in Assam’s Dibrugarh district has developed a kit that can detect the latest Omicron variant of Covid-19 virus that has emerged as most infectious so far. The newly developed kit can detect the new variant within just two hours. A team of ICMR scientists led […]

Lifting restrictions too quickly could lead to ‘deadly resurgence’ of COVID-19, warns WHO

As the world battles coronavirus pandemic, World Health Organisation (WHO) on Friday (local time) warned countries against hastily lifting restrictions which have been put in place to curb the spread of the virus. Addressing a press conference, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said: “I know that some countries are already planning the transition out of […]