Coronavirus

New Delhi: With 11,666 new COVID-19 cases reported in the last 24 hours, India Thursday continued its streak of low single-day cases, even as the overall tally mounted to 1,07,01,193, health officials said. For the past 21 days, the country has been recording less than...

Washington: The total number of global coronavirus cases has topped 100.7 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 2.17 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University. In its latest update on Thursday morning, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed...

Beijing: China has administered 22.77 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines. It has also increased its daily testing capacity for the virus to 15 million. These measures have been taken to step up drive to combat the latest resurgence of coronavirus cases in China ahead of...

New Delhi: The Covaxin vaccine developed by Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech is effective against UK variants of COVID-19. This information was shared Wednesday by Bharat Biotech after a study on 26 participants. The findings are in an article – Neutralization of UK-variant VUI-202012/01 with Covaxin vaccinated...

Hyderabad: Covaxin, the Covid vaccine developed by Bharat Biotech, effectively neutralises UK variants of SARS-CoV-2 reducing the possibility of mutant virus escape, finds a study. According to the research paper carried by bioRxiv, the preprint server for biology, the study has dispelled the uncertainty of...

New York: Global Covid-19 cases surpassed 100 million Tuesday, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University. The global case count reached 10,00,32,461, with a total of 21,49,818 deaths worldwide, as of 2:22 p.m. local time (1922 GMT), the...

London: The United Kingdom hit Tuesday another grim COVID-19 milestone as the country’s death toll crossed 100,000 since the peak of the pandemic last year. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) assessment of death certificate data reveals that there have been nearly 104,000 deaths since...

New Delhi: Despite diagnostic testing of passengers before the departure of international flights, instances of in-flight transmission of the novel coronavirus are likely. This is according to a study that assessed people who travelled aboard a plane from Dubai to New Zealand. The study also...

Bhubaneswar: After a gap of seven months, Odisha Tuesday registered daily new COVID-19 cases below 100, which pushed the tally to 3,34,529, a health department official said. The state had reported below 100 single-day COVID-19 cases for the last time June 6, 2020. "All credit...

London: With new Covid-19 strains reported from several parts of the world giving fresh threats to the fight against the pandemic, a group of scientists is calling on governments to consider the continued use of strict control measures as the only way to reduce the...