#Covid

A 15-year-old boy in India died after contracting COVID-19, authorities said Wednesday. The teenager had received both doses of the coronavirus vaccination before getting infected. Authorities said the teen, identified by his first name Shubham, was admitted to a medical college in Meerut – a city in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, Outlook India reported.

Walgreens Boots Alliance (NASDAQ:WBA) is trading lower in the pre-market Thursday despite better-than-expected revenue and earnings posted by the pharmacy retail chain with its 3Q financials for fiscal 2022. Sales from the company’s continuing.

The infectious-disease expert was feeling "really poorly" and began a second round of Paxlovid.

Rafael Nadal tops the bill at Wimbledon on Thursday after Roberto Bautista Agut became the third player to withdraw from the Championships following a positive coronavirus test. In early results on the fourth day of the tournament, women's fourth seed Paula Badosa set up a third-round clash against two-time winner...

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Bhutan will reopen for international tourists from September for the first time since the pandemic began more than two years ago, officials said on Thursday, as the tiny Himalayan kingdom looks to revive its economy. Wedged between China and India, the country with scenic natural beauty and...

Alibaba Group Holding Limited's BABA cloud business unit launched Energy Expert, a digital platform to help its global customers manage their carbon emissions, the SCMP reports. Companies that use the artificial intelligence-powered platform can measure, analyze and manage their carbon emissions with the software-as-a-service (SaaS) tool. Energy Expert helps customers...

Health experts are emphatic that the COVID-19 pandemic is not over, and COVID has definitely not morphed into something as harmless as the common cold. Case in point: In the last two weeks, COVID-related hospitalizations have risen by double digits in nearly two dozen states. Although Omicron and its subvariants, by and large, are producing less severe disease than earlier forms of the virus, people are still getting seriously ill and dying from COVID. These are five states where COVID hospitalizations are rising the fastest. Read on to find out more—and to ensure your health and the health of others, don't miss these Sure Signs You've Already Had COVID.

A 14-year-old Amur tiger at an Ohio zoo died Sunday after developing pneumonia that was caused by COVID-19. Columbus Zoo and Aquarium announced the death of Jupiter in a Facebook post. The zoo said the tiger had been undergoing treatment for chronic underlying illnesses that made him more susceptible to the virus.

Vaccines targeting new COVID-19 variants are likely to arrive this fall after an advisory panel voted to recommend that vaccines be updated.

Bryan Coquard (Cofidis) and Daryl Impey (Israel Premier Tech) will miss the Tour de France after testing positive for COVID-19, but Bob Jungels (AG2R Citroën) was given the all-clear to race on Thursday morning after it was deemed that he was no longer contagious following his coronavirus diagnosis. Coquard...

Open Door Health Services’ no-cost COVID-19 testing site will offer its final day of testing today (Thursday, June 30). Suzanne Clem, Open Door’s Vice President of Community Engagement, says the testing location at 1651 E. 29th St. in Muncie, near the Open Door Urgent Care site, has operated since last year as a state-contracted community testing site. She says that contract concludes today.

Active cases of COVID-19 have increased in the state, according to the weekly report provided by the state Department of Health. As of Wednesday, there were just more than 31-hundred active COVID-19 cases. The state reported two additional COVID-19 deaths as well, bringing the overall total to 2938 since the start of the pandemic. Fifty-three people were hospitalized with COVID-19 as of Wednesday.

(SPRINGFIELD) In the latest update from the Illinois Department of Public Health. There were 27,094 new confirmed COVID-19 cases around the state from last week, with 82 new deaths. While the number of Illinois counties in the High Community Level dropped from 25 to 20, the number of counties in the Medium Community Level increased from 39 to 47. With the regional counties of Wayne and Marion now in the High Level, the area counties of Clay, Crawford, Cumberland, and Coles are in the Medium Level. All others, including Richland, Jasper, Effingham, Fayette, Lawrence, Wabash, Edwards, and White remain in the Low Level. The IDPH reports increased COVID-19 numbers in the downstate regions of Illinois over the past week although the state numbers continue to stay at a steady level.