Coronavirus

New Delhi: Drug firm Dr Reddy’s Laboratories said Friday as part of a limited pilot, the soft launch of the Covid-19 vaccine Sputnik V has commenced. Dr Reddy’s said the first dose of the vaccine was administered in Hyderabad. There have been reports that the...

New Delhi: A total of 3,43,144 people have tested positive for coronavirus in a day. The new cases took India’s coronavirus tally to 2,40,46,809. The death toll rose to 2,62,317 with 4,000 new fatalities, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated Friday. The Health...

New Delhi: Amid a political war of words between the Centre and the Delhi government over the availability of sufficient vaccines to inoculate all adults in the national capital, the central government said Thursday it will provide all possible assistance to all companies willing to...

New Delhi: A new tracker by Cambridge Judge Business School forecasts that the number of new COVID cases in India has peaked, and will see a declining trend over the two-week forecast period to 23 May. The tracker said but there is substantial variation among...

New Delhi: The Centre Thursday approved extending the gap between the two doses of the Covishield vaccine to 12-16 weeks following a recommendation from a government panel, and said it is a ‘science-based decision’ taken with confidence that there will be no extra risk. However,...

Beijing: India has asked China to help stop the sharp increase in prices of essential medical supplies being procured from Chinese manufacturers by private Indian traders to deal with the COVID-19 surge in the country and restore the normal frequency of cargo flight services to...

New Delhi: The Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) has accorded permission to conduct the Phase II-III clinical trial of Covaxin (COVID vaccine) in the age group of two to 18-years-old to its manufacturer Bharat Biotech Ltd, Union Health Ministry said Thursday. "The trial will...

Washington: India made the "incorrect assumption" that it was finished with the COVID-19 pandemic and opened up prematurely that has left the country in such "dire straits", America's top infectious disease expert Dr Anthony Fauci has told senators. India has been severely affected by the...

New Delhi/New York: Noted science writer Nicholas Wade, who has worked with some of the world's most distinguished science magazines and journals, penned an exhaustive article last week explaining why Coronavirus has all the hallmarks of being engineered in a laboratory. Wade is the latest...

New Delhi: A week after kick-starting the Covid vaccination drive for those in the age group of 18-44 years, the national capital has ran out of its Covaxin stock for this particular segment. The Delhi government, which had recently said that it would vaccinate all...