Coronavirus

Sydney: A pizza shop in Sydney is giving out free slices to people lining up to get tested for Covid-19 across the city. When Glen Mezei, owner of Site Pizza Bar located in a beachside suburb in Sydney's east, and fellow staff members delivered 30...

New York: A single mutation gives SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, the ability to enter cells through another route, opening up the possibility of evading Covid antibodies or vaccines, finds a study. Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, scientists identified how SARS-CoV-2 gets inside cells...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha reported Friday its first case of the Covid-19 Delta plus variant in Deogarh district. This new development came a day after Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik urged people not to lower their guard against Covid-19. The National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) informed the...

Tokyo: Japan announced Friday that it will provide USD 9.3 million worth cold chain equipment and related assistance to India. This will be needed to help India fight the Covid-19 pandemic. The assistance, under Japan’s Emergency Grant Aid scheme, will provide India with cold chain...

New Delhi: South Delhi eatery ‘Baba ka Dhaba’ owner Kanta Prasad has returned home after being discharged from the Safdarjung hospital, police said Friday. Prasad, 81, attempted suicide June 17, police had earlier said. But then why is Kanta Prasad so famous that his release...

Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court observed Friday that taxpayers’ money, of which the state is a trustee, cannot be wasted by letting ‘precious medicines’ lie unused at a hospital when other facilities are in dire need of those. It asked the Bengal government to apprise...

Bangalore: India’s men’s hockey coach Graham Reid is in awe of the ‘mental resilience’ shown by his wards amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Graham Reid feels it could well make all the difference when the side chase their first Olympic medal in over four decades in...

London: The SARS-CoV-2 virus, that causes Covid-19, may have started spreading in China as early as October 2019. This was two months before the first case was identified in Wuhan. This information has been provided in a research according to a modelling study. The research...

New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has a pertinent question for the Centre. Rahul Gandhi asked Friday why ‘large-scale testing is not being done’ by the government to check and prevent the spread of the Delta plus variant of coronavirus. He also wanted to know...

New Delhi: Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia denied Friday existence of any report by the Supreme Court-appointed Oxygen Audit Committee about Delhi exaggerating its oxygen requirement by four times during the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. At an online press briefing, Manish Sisodia accused...