Coronavirus

New Delhi: As many as 646 doctors lost their lives in the fight against Covid-19 during the second wave of the pandemic, the Indian Medical Association (IMA) said Saturday. Delhi reported the maximum number of fatalities among doctors at 109, followed by Bihar (97), Uttar...

New Delhi: No decision on granting indemnity to any foreign or Indian Covid vaccine-manufactures has been taken yet, the government said Friday, underlining these decisions are to be taken "in the interest of nation and people". NITI Aayog member (Health) Dr V K Paul's statement...

Washington: The head of China's Wuhan virology lab, also called as the 'bat woman', and an expert from the University of North Carolina in the US, had in a paper published in 2015 flagged the dangers of their gain-of-function experiment of a novel coronavirus which...

London: People fully vaccinated with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine are likely to have more than five times lower levels of neutralising antibodies against the Delta variant first identified in India compared to the original strain, according to research published in ‘The Lancet’ journal. The study also...

Mumbai: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) decided Friday to leave benchmark interest rate unchanged at four per cent. However, the central bank maintained an accommodative stance as the economy faces heat of the second Covid wave.  This is the sixth time in a row...

New York: As US President Joe Biden announced Thursday that India will receive COVID-19 vaccines directly from its stockpile, Vice President Kamala Harris spoke to Prime Minister Narendra Modi about the distribution, according to the White House. Biden, who has faced international and domestic pressure...

Moscow: Concerns over the artificial origins of COVID-19 do not have any value, Russian virologist and expert at the World Health Organization Dmitry Lvov said. "Coronaviruses are primarily viruses associated with bats. Someone could have been infected either in a room where a bat spent...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has asked Centre to furnish data on the percentage of population vaccinated so far (with one dose and both doses), both in rural and urban areas, along with documents reflecting its thinking in connection with the vaccination policy. A bench of...

New Delhi: Noting that COVID-19 vaccination drive is ramping up, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) Director General Balram Bhargava Tuesday said they hope to vaccinate the "whole country" by end of this year. Addressing a press conference here, Bhargava also announced that enough doses...

New Delhi: There will be no Class XII board exams this year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Tuesday. His announcement ended weeks of anxiety among students and parents over the Covid-19 situation India. The decision to cancel Class XII exams was taken because of ‘uncertain...