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WHO backs masks on long-haul flights as new COVID-19 variant spreads

11 Jan 2023

Countries should consider recommending that passengers wear masks on long-haul flights, given the rapid spread of the latest Omicron subvariant of COVID-19 in the United States, World Health Organisation (WHO)...

Combating SAD or January Blues after festivities

13 Jan 2022

All across the UK and US, where temperatures plummet during the winter months and the days get darker earlier, people begin to suffer from what is known as ‘the January...

'Deltacron' likely result of lab error, not new worrying variant: Experts

10 Jan 2022

Experts said on Monday that an alleged hybrid coronavirus mutation dubbed "Deltacron" reportedly discovered in a Cyprus lab is most likely the result of a lab contamination, and not a...

Squeeze on funds cripples NGO sector

03 Jan 2022

Robust non-governmental organisations are an essential part of healthy modern societies. They perform useful functions such as supplementing governmental efforts on the social front and raising the red flag when...

Top gun

30 Dec 2021

Indian pacer Md. Shami has taken 200 international Test wickets in the ongoing Test series against South Africa on Tuesday. He became the fifth Indian pacer to claim 200 wickets....

Omicron spreading and infecting the vaccinated, says WHO chief

20 Dec 2021

The Omicron variant of the coronavirus is spreading faster than the Delta variant and is causing infections in people already vaccinated or who have recovered from the COVID-19 disease, the...

Majid Al Futtaim, an icon of industry

17 Dec 2021

Emirati trailblazer Majid Al Futtaim was among the pantheon of pioneering industrialists who drew a revolutionary trajectory across the commercial landscape of the UAE. In doing so, he put the...

US envoy says China needs ambitious climate goal

13 Dec 2021

China and US had a “very good year” for collaboration on dealing with climate change, but Washington is still pushing Beijing to adopt more ambitious carbon reduction goals, the top...

What is the revived US policy on Mexico border?

07 Dec 2021

Elliot Spagat, Associated Press The Biden administration on Monday reinstated a Trump-era policy to make asylum-seekers wait in Mexico for hearings in US immigration court, seeking to comply with a...

Grim portents of the scary virus haven’t faded

28 Nov 2021

The prediction by the World Health Organisation’s Europe office that its 53-country region could face another 700,000 deaths in the coronavirus pandemic by next spring is alarming to say the...

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