No novel pathogen behind recent outbreak: China to WHO

Claiming no unusual or novel pathogens other than the seasonal ones were detected, China has sought to play down the global concerns amid surging cases of mycoplasma pneumonia and influenza flu,......

China braces for new Covid wave, may see 65 million cases weekly

The Chinese authorities are rushing to push out vaccines to combat an ongoing new wave of the coronavirus that is expected to peak in June and infect as many as 65 million people a week since the......

China orders release of Covid detainees

The Chinese government on Saturday ordered the release of people detained over a host of coronavirus-related incidents, a day ahead of Beijing's plan to scrap its three-year-old stringently......

Current Covid wave may lead to new variants, warn Chinese health experts

Chinese health experts have warned that a new wave of coronavirus infections that have hit China may result in new variants, prompting authorities to set up a nationwide network of hospitals to......

Flu: India safe but ill-equipped on epidemic drugs

Swine flu was first reported in Mexico, SARS and bird flu in China, but India surprisingly escaped being ground zero for any. China: SARS in 2002-2003 and bird flu in 1996, both in the southern......

'India will become bigger than the US!'

"By mid century India could overtake the United States by absolute size," says Jeffrey D Sachs, Special Advisor to the UN Secretary General on Millennium Development Goals and one of the world's......