Coronavirus

Ghaziabad: The second Covid wave is wreaking havoc in rural areas of Uttar Pradesh. Just 30 minutes drive from Delhi, a village in Ghaziabad has lost up to 100 people due to Covid like symptoms in just over a month. Residents of Nahal village in Ghaziabad...

New Delhi: Warning that the drop in Covid-19 cases in Delhi should not be taken as a signal to relax vigilance, the Delhi High Court Thursday said the authorities concerned should take steps to create a buffer stock of liquid medical oxygen (LMO) in the...

New Delhi: Union Minister and senior BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad on Thursday said that when the country needs to speak in one voice, the act of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at a meeting of district magistrates with Prime Minister Narendra Modi is deeply...

Toronto: The Government of Canada will invest approximately Canadian $1.3 million for two studies on vaccine safety and effectiveness in pregnant women. While pregnant or breastfeeding individuals were excluded from the initial mRNA and viral vector Covid-19 clinical trials, recent real-world evidence is showing that mRNA...

London: The human body's endocrine system that makes hormones is strongly involved in the SARS-Cov-2 infection -- the virus behind Covid-19 -- so much so that evidence of an "endocrine phenotype" of Coronavirus has emerged, according to a statement by the European Society of Endocrinology. A...

New Delhi: In order to ensure a Covid-free rural India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Thursday asked a group of District Magistrates (DMs) to devise their strategies in rural and urban specific manner. Noting that coronavirus has made their job more demanding and challenging, the Prime...

Guwahati: The northeast recorded its first death due to mucormycosis, commonly known as 'black fungus' when a 27-year-old man died at a private hospital here after his recovery from Covid, health officials said Thursday. According to the officials, the man hailed from central Assam's Nagaon...

New Delhi: Covid-19 has taught that preparedness costs are only a fraction of the impact of a pandemic, but the returns on this investment are exponential, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said. The Minister also underlined the need for greater collaboration between countries on various aspects...

New Delhi: Cipla Limited announced the commercialisation of a polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test kit ‘ViraGen for Covid-19 in India, in partnership with Ubio Biotechnology Systems Pvt. Ltd Thursday. ViraGen is Cipla's third offering in the Covid-19 testing segment. Cipla already has partnerships for antibody...

Patna: A 45-year-old corona infected woman, who was allegedly gangraped by 3 employees of a private hospital in Patna, died Wednesday. The deceased's daughter claimed that her mother was admitted May 17 in a prominent private hospital. "She had symptoms of corona and hence we...