Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) spinner Varun Chakravarthy has revealed he received nasty messages from people after contracting COVID-19 during the first leg of the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL) 2021 in India which led to the tournament getting postponed and later shifted to the UAE.

Got messages saying you should have been dead: Varun Chakravarthy on contracting COVID-19 during IPL's 1st leg

As the world grapples with COVID-19, influenza is not getting much attention these days. But the flu’s global impact is staggering: 3 million to 5 million cases of severe illness every year and up to 650,000 deaths.

First, impressive vaccines for COVID. Next up: the flu.

Dining with a view? Thai locals rush to dine at flooded restaurant

Russia has reported the highest number of daily Covid-related deaths on Wednesday becoming the fifth worst-hit country in the world. Vladimir Putin-led government reported 929 Covid deaths in the past 24 hours.

Russia reports highest daily Covid deaths as Delta variant surges

After months of controlled border entry rules, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson, has decided to include more countries in the quarantine-free travel list.

UK set to discontinue compulsory 10-day quarantine rule

A 15-year-old girl lost her battle to the deadly coronavirus on the same day when she was scheduled to get her vaccine. Governments and medical experts have been urging people all around the world to get vaccinated as soon as possible.

UK: 15-year-old dies from Covid on day she was scheduled for vaccine

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Friday announced an 18-month ban on Australians travelling abroad will be lifted from next month, easing one of the toughest COVID-19 restrictions imposed globally.

Australia to ease international border restrictions from November

South Korea extended social distancing curbs to combat the coronavirus pandemic on Friday for two weeks, offering more incentives to people to get vaccinated as it battles thousands of new cases each day, particularly in the capital.

S.Korea extends social distancing curbs as COVID-19 cases rise in Seoul

Sri Lanka on Friday lifted a near six-week lockdown to contain the spread of coronavirus but maintained a night curfew and a ban on public gatherings and parties.

Sri Lanka lifts virus lockdown, retains night curfew

United Airlines had ordered its employees to get fully vaccinated against coronavirus by September 27, or face dire consequences. Following on the promise, the company has fired nearly 600 staff members for not complying to these rules.

United Airlines to fire nearly 600 employees for not getting vaccinated; 99% company fully jabbed

India's capital city has decided that all unvaccinated staff members will be marked as 'on leave' from October 15. The Delhi government has declared that if any teaching and non-teaching staff member is not vaccinated till October 15, they will not be allowed to return to school till they are fully vaccinated.

Delhi schools to mark unvaccinated teachers on 'leave' after October 15

Patients of coronavirus have reported prolonged loss of smell and taste, along with several other problems, and experts seem to have found a way to treat it. A group of UK researchers have discovered that vitamin A nasal drops might be able to cure the loss (or altered) sense of smell in people post Covid.

Can Vitamin A help in treating Covid-caused loss of smell? Experts answer

It was a hot morning in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the day that Peter Naughton woke up on the floor. Sore, disoriented, he’d already grasped what his mother was now telling him: He’d had another seizure.

‘Every day is frightening’: Working for the top US employer amid Covid

Stressing that the Covid virus may continue to transmit for a very long time, senior WHO official Poonam Khetrapal Singh says the level of immunity in a community, through vaccination and previous infection, will determine whether it will become endemic in the long run.

Covid virus expected to continue to transmit for a very long time, says WHO official

The world leaders and health experts are urging eligible population to get vaccinated against coronavirus as soon as possible, but children under the age of 12 are not being vaccinated in every country.

Right to Covid jab: 12-year-old boy wins court battle to get vaccinated

For the first time in the last 40 years, a decline has been observed in the life expectancy for the men in the UK. This change has emerged specifically due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Covid has decreased life expectancy for men, but not for women: Study

New Delhi, Sep 23 (IANS) Covid-19 has come back to haunt the lucrative Indian Premier League (IPL) once again. Sunrisers Hyderabad bowler Thangarasu Natarajan became the first player of the UAE leg of the league to test positive just ahead of the team's match against Delhi Capitals on Wednesday.

IPL 2021: Worried, but no need to press the panic button, says BCCI official after T Natarajan tests positive for COVID-19

Before Juhi Singh, 46, who owns a high-end wellness center on the Upper East Side, jetted off to the Amalfi Coast last month, she packed her bathing suits and left her 10-year-old son with his grandmother.

Some rich people are counting their antibodies ‘like calories’

India's National Health Authority CEO RS Sharma on Wednesday said he was not aware of any concerns being raised by the UK about India's Covid vaccine certification and stressed that the Co-WIN system is WHO-compliant.

Not aware of any concerns being raised by the UK, says India's top health official on vaccine certification issue

On Tuesday, US President Joe Biden delivered his first address to the United Nations General Assembly, declaring that the world is at a "inflection point in history" and that the world must act quickly and cooperatively to address the lingering issues of the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, and human rights violations.

UN General Assembly 2021 | 'We are not seeking a new cold war': US President Joe Biden

Germany reacted with shock and outrage on Tuesday after a 20-year-old petrol station worker was shot dead by a customer angry about being asked to put on a mask while buying beer.

Covid rage: Asked to put on mask, angry customer kills petrol station worker in Germany

“I think I’ve come to believe that even if the COVID death toll was '10 times' what it currently is,” MSNBC host Chris Hayes wrote a few days ago on Twitter, “the politics of all of it wouldn’t be appreciably different.

What if COVID-19 were 10 times deadlier?

After months of Covid regulations, the UK has decided to open its borders for travellers who are fully vaccinated. This announcement will help people travelling on long haul flights between India and the UK.

UK eases Covid travel restrictions for fully vaccinated travellers

In last one-and-a-half years, coronavirus has hit the world hard. Be it the downturn in the economy or loss of precious lives to the disease, several people have been adversely affected by the spread of this dreadful ailment.

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