Australia's Victoria state has extended COVID-19 lockdown for a second week in Melbourne on Wednesday to combat an outbreak of the highly contagious virus strain first detected in India. Munia Iffat reports. Australia's second-most populous state, Victoria was tumbled into lockdown last Thursday, until June 3. It happened after the first locally acquired cases were detected in three months,...

A rare black fungus that invades the brain is being increasingly seen in India, including coronavirus-infected patients. Munia Iffat reports.  Indian health ministry on Sunday released an advisory on how to treat the infection. Indian state Gujarat, about 300 cases had been reported in four cities, including Ahmedabad.  Prof Peter Collignon, who sits on the World Health...

 India has informed that nearly 120 million doses of the Covid19 vaccine will be available for domestic use in June as several states flagged a shortage and suspended their inoculation drive this month. Munia Iffat reports. India has fully vaccinated only about 3 percent of its population against Covid-19 till date.        The Indian government said in a press release...

The US will ban travel from India starting Tuesday following a deadly coronavirus surge, which has built new records and left the country in despair. Munia Iffat reports. The US to ban travel from India amid coronavirus surge. Florida suspends emergency orders, mask requirements. White House informed the US could share more than 60 million doses of the AstraZeneca COVID19 vaccine once...

India has ordered 300 million doses of an unapproved coronavirus vaccine amid the devastating second wave of the country. Munia Iffat reports. After the recent criticism from the Supreme Court over its bungled vaccine rollout, India has ordered its first batch of an unapproved COVID19 vaccine. The Indian government is buying 300 million vaccine doses from an Indian company called...

Covid has wreaked havoc in every corner of the world. Again, the urgency of covid is in news, covid has become the tale of the poor and marginalized. Karl Marx had said, “accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole”. This has been reflected worldwide where a major chunk of wealth rests...

Unless governments take initiatives to enforce the wearing of face masks against the Omicron strain of the coronavirus would be “useless” said UNIONS. They warned that people must wear masks and it should be implemented as compulsory by all the governments as its one of the renewed measures. Without wearing face masks on public transport compulsorily there won’t be any...

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party has defeated by the incumbent, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s party in India’s West Bengal State but still, make gains. Munia Iffat reports. Amid record COVID19 deaths and cases, an election held in India where the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party has failed to win a key state.   Though with...

Antonio Brown, NFL star and Tampa Bay Buccaneers receiver has been suspended without pay for three games as punishment following the scandal of him being fake and using a counterfeit vaccination card to prove that he’d been vaccinated against Covid-19. NFL, the National Football League announced his suspension. As per NFL Antonio Brown and two other players won’t be playing for the...