Biden tests positive for COVID, has mild symptoms, taking Paxlovid treatment

Biden joins a roster of other world leaders who have contracted COVID since the pandemic started in early 2020.

World 21 Jul, 2022

COVID-19 has shown countries, policymakers, technocrats, businesspersons, and the media the mirror

Sunoor Verma, a global health practitioner who has advised WHO, UNICEF, UNHCR, HUG-Geneva, and Cambridge University on strategy, leadership communication, advocacy, and resource mobilisation, talks to The Himalayan Times about how COVID-19 has affected our lives, what lessons low income countries can draw from it, and the post-COVID world order.

Nepal 22 Apr, 2022

COVID, China, climate: Online Davos event tackles big themes

The coronavirus pandemic has forced the World Economic Forum's annual meeting of world leaders, business executives and other heavyweights to go virtual for the second year in a row, but organizers still hope to catapult the world into thinking about the future with a scaled-down online version this week.

World 15 Jan, 2022

US CDC urges Americans to wear 'most protective mask you can'

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Friday revised its guidance for Americans on wearing masks to protect against COVID-19, recommending donning "the most protective mask you can" while stopping short of advocating nationwide usage of N95 respirators.

World 15 Jan, 2022

COVID case counts may be losing importance amid omicron

The explosive increase in U.S. coronavirus case counts is raising alarm, but some experts believe the focus should instead be on COVID-19 hospital admissions. And those aren't climbing as fast.

World 05 Jan, 2022

How will pandemic end? Omicron clouds forecasts for endgame

Pandemics do eventually end, even if omicron is complicating the question of when this one will. But it won't be like flipping a light switch: The world will have to learn to coexist with a virus that's not going away.

World 03 Jan, 2022

Moderna says booster dose of its COVID-19 vaccine appears protective vs. Omicron

Moderna Inc said on Monday that a booster dose of its COVID-19 vaccine appeared to be protective against the fast-spreading Omicron variant in laboratory testing and that the current version of the vaccine would continue to be Moderna’s "first line of defense against Omicron."

Health 20 Dec, 2021

Fauci says omicron variant is `just raging around the world'

The COVID-19 omicron variant is “just raging around the world,” the White House's top medical adviser said Sunday as President Joe Biden prepares to issue “a stark warning of what the winter will look like” for unvaccinated Americans.

World 20 Dec, 2021

'Tidal wave': Omicron could put U.S. COVID-19 surge into overdrive

Two years into the coronavirus pandemic, the United States is confronting another dark winter, with the red-hot Omicron variant threatening to further inflame an already dangerous surge of cases.

World 18 Dec, 2021

US faces a double coronavirus surge as omicron advances

The new omicron coronavirus mutant speeding around the world may bring another wave of chaos, threatening to further stretch hospital workers already struggling with a surge of delta cases and upend holiday plans for the second year in a row.

World 16 Dec, 2021

Vaccine makers racing to update COVID shots, just in case

Vaccine makers are racing to update their COVID-19 shots against the newest coronavirus threat even before it's clear a change is needed, just in case.

World 09 Dec, 2021

Studies suggest Pfizer shot may protect only partially against Omicron

The Omicron variant can partially evade protection from two doses of Pfizer and partner BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine, the research head of a laboratory at the Africa Health Research Institute in South Africa said on Tuesday.

World 08 Dec, 2021