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This story idea came from audience members, like you, who got in touch with us. Send us your questions about COVID-19 and masking. We are listening: ask@cbc.ca As Canadians look ahead to summer vacation plans with friends and family, there are still lingering questions about which safety precautions are necessary …

Billed a COVID-19 success story as its economy boomed through the pandemic, Taiwan is now battling a record wave of infections as it eases restrictions that had kept outbreaks at bay to start life with the virus. For the whole of 2021, Taiwan reported less than 15,000 locally transmitted cases. …

This is an excerpt from Second Opinion, a weekly health and medical science newsletter. If you haven’t subscribed yet, you can do that by clicking here. Unexplained severe acute hepatitis cases among children continue to emerge in Canada and around the world, and while health officials desperately search for a cause of …

New York: People, who have had COVID-19, are at increased risk of developing cardiovascular complications within the first month to a year after infection, report a study. The researchers showed that Covid amplified the risk of heart disease among people who were clearly at risk for a heart condition before …

New Delhi: Due to a large decrease in Covid-19 cases, the Supreme Court issued a circular saying that it will resume hybrid hearings on February 14. On October 7, 2021, the Supreme Court reinstated the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP), initiating a hybrid hearing of the cases, ANI reported. On October …

New Delhi: Witnessing yet another marginal drop in daily Covid-19 caseload, Mumbai on Tuesday reported 1,815 new infections, after reporting 1,857 on Monday. However, the national capital witnessed a slight spark in the covid-19 cases, with 6,028 new infections logged on Tuesday in comparison to 5,760 on Monday. Delhi Covid-19 …

NEW DELHI: New and emerging technologies are being developed at 25 innovation hubs, which have been set up across the country under the National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems (NM-ICPS), to provide solutions to people-centric problems. Several such technologies and technology platforms have turned fruitful in several sectors, including the …

New Delhi: To enforce Covid distancing standards during the Budget Session commencing January 31, the two Houses of Parliament will convene separately for five hours each – Rajya Sabha in the first half and Lok Sabha in the second half. Lok Sabha will assemble at 11 a.m. on February 1 …

Covid-19 hospitalisations in the national capital have increased significantly in the last one week. The Delhi government’s mobile application for Covid-19 shows the number of people needing ICU beds and beds with ventilators more than doubled during the period, even though the city on Friday recorded a drop in the …

Jerusalem: Amid rising cases of Omicron, a preliminary study by Israeli researchers has shown that the fourth dose of Covid-19 vaccine boosts antibodies five-fold in just a week after the shot is administered, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said on Tuesday. Bennett spoke during a visit to the Sheba Medical Center, …