Amaravati, Jan 25 (IANS) The surge in Covid-19 cases continues in Andhra Pradesh while the active caseload in the state crossed one lakh mark on Tuesday.

Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 25 (IANS) For the first time, the number of daily Covid cases crossed 50,000 in Kerala on Tuesday even as State Health Minister Veena George said there is no need to panic.

Delhi, Jan 25 (IANS) While Covid-19 has primarily been a respiratory disease, about 90 per cent of people with moderate to severe infections have lasting effects on the heart, said experts here.

London, Jan 25 (IANS) The Omicron variant of Covid is highly contagious but is known to cause less severe disease than Delta. This is after being better at escaping immune protection by vaccinations and previous infections. However, the reasons for this have so far remained elusive.

Hong Kong, Jan 25 (IANS) Despite low absolute risk, there is an increased relative risk of carditis -- a type of heart inflammation -- associated with Covid vaccine developed by US drugmaker Pfizer and China's CoronaVac, researchers have found.

New Delhi, Jan 25 (IANS) The circulating avian influenza outbreaks, including in India, do not seem to pose the 'high' risk but surveillance and biosecurity measures are necessary to reduce spillover risk between poultry and wild birds, a UN-backed scientific task force said.

New Delhi, Jan 25 (IANS) After reporting over three lakh new cases for five days in a row, India reported 2,55,874 fresh Covid infections in a span of 24 hours and the daily positivity rate came down to 15.52 per cent, said the Union health ministry on Tuesday morning.

Chennai, Jan 25 (IANS) The industrial and commercial city of Tamil Nadu, Coimbatore is turning into the state's Covid hotspot as the positivity rate has increased to 26.6 per cent.

Lucknow, Jan 25 (IANS) Uttar Pradesh has become the first state in India to have administered more than 25 crore doses of Covid vaccines.

Washington, Jan 25 (IANS) Amid an ongoing resurgence across the world, the global coronavirus caseload has topped 354.3 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 5.60 million and vaccinations to over 9.81 billion, according to Johns Hopkins University.

Yangon, Jan 25 (IANS) Myanmar recorded 37 more Covid-19 cases of the Omicron variant, bringing the total tally of confirmed Omicron cases to 183, according to a release from its Ministry of Health.

Singapore, Jan 25 (IANS) Singapore reported 3,002 new confirmed cases of Covid-19, bringing the total tally to 316,774.

Copenhagen, Jan 25 (IANS) Two years after the Covid-19 pandemic in Europe and central Asia, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said the region could be "entering a new phase in the pandemic with plausible hope for stabilisation."

Urumqi (China), Jan 25 (IANS) Four confirmed Covid-19 cases and 10 asymptomatic carriers were reported in Ili Kazak Autonomous Prefecture, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region, according to a regional press briefing.

Gandhinagar, Jan 24 (IANS) Though the number of fresh Covid cases has come down in Gujarat since the past few of days, the states Covid fatality has become a cause of concern with 25 people succumbing to the virus in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to over 100 in just six days.

Bengaluru, Jan 24 (IANS) Karnataka logged 46,426 new Covid cases against 41,703 discharges on Monday, as well as another 32 deaths.

New Delhi, Jan 24 (IANS) Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya will hold a virtual meeting with nine states and United Territories on Tuesday to take stock of the prevailing Covid situation.

New Delhi, Jan 24 (IANS) Delhi on Monday recorded a nearly 37 per cent decline in daily Covid cases at 5,760, as against 9,197 on Sunday, while there were 30 deaths too.

Jammu, Jan 24 (IANS) Jammu and Kashmir on Monday reported 5,394 new cases and 8 deaths.

New Delhi, Jan 24 (IANS) About 9 in 10 people have lost some degree of vision during the last two years of Covid pandemic, health experts said on Monday.

Geneva, Jan 24 (IANS) It is dangerous to assume that Omicron will be the last variant, or the pandemic is going to end, when global conditions are seen as ideal for more Covid variants to emerge, said the World Health Organization (WHO) chief on Monday.

New Delhi, Jan 24 (IANS) Covid has still got a "long, long way" to go and is "still very serious" despite some optimism the end is in sight in Europe, the World Health Organisation's special envoy on the virus said, Sky News reported.

New York, Jan 24 (IANS) The "nocebo effect" accounted for more than two-thirds of the common side effects people experience after a Covid-19 vaccination rather than the vaccine itself, according to a new study.

Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 24 (IANS) With close to 1.70 lakh new Covid cases in Kerala in the past four days and the daily test positivity rate reaching as high as 45 per cent, State Health Minister Veena George on Monday dispelled media reports that there is a huge shortage of health facilities following the massive spike.

Ballari, Jan 24 (IANS) As many as 37 Covid cases have been reported from Krishnadevaraya University in Nandihalli Post Graduation Center in Sandur taluk of Karnataka's Ballari district on Monday. According to University sources, the test results of many more students are yet to come.