Coronavirus

Mumbai: Actor and YouTube star Rahul Vohra has reportedly breathed his last owing to Covid-19 complications. He was 35. The actor was admitted to Delhi's Rajeev Gandhi super speciality hospital and undergoing treatment for Covid-19. The news of Vohra's death comes just a day after...

Auckland: All New Zealand cricketers and coaches, who were involved in IPL 2021, have arrived home safely. They arrived back in New Zealand by private jets in two groups after the indefinite suspension of the T20 league midway. The lucrative league was suspended May 4...

New Delhi: More than 72 lakh COVID-19 vaccine doses are still available with states and union territories, while over 46 lakh doses will be received by them within the next three days, the Union Health Ministry said Sunday. The government of India has so far...

New Delhi: India recorded 4,03,738 fresh COVID-19 cases in a day, which pushed the tally to 2,22,96,414, according to the Union health ministry data updated Sunday. The death toll climbed to 2,42,362 with 4,092 daily deaths, the data updated at 8 am showed. Registering a...

Porto (Portugal):  European Union leaders cranked up their criticism of the US call to waive COVID-19 vaccine patents Saturday, arguing the move would bring no short or midterm relief. They instead urged Washington to lift export restrictions if it wants to have a global impact...

Lucknow: After eight Asiatic lions had tested positive for COVID-19 at Hyderabad zoo, two lionesses have tested positive at Etawah Lion Safari in Uttar Pradesh. Both the big cats Gauri and Jennifer have been placed in isolation. According to the safari administration, the condition of...

Colombo: Sri Lanka Saturday detected its first case of the Indian variant of coronavirus, also known as B.1.617, in a person who recently returned from India and was in a quarantine centre here. The Department of Immunology and Molecular Medicine of the University of Sri...

Dhaka: Bangladesh Saturday extended the closure of land borders with India for 14 more days, hours after the country detected six cases of the Indian variant of the COVID-19. The land borders with India were sealed on April 26 in view of the worsening coronavirus...

Dhaka: Bangladesh has detected six people, who had recently visited India, infected with the Indian variant of the COVID-19, a top health official said Saturday. Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) spokesman Professor Dr Nazmul Islam Munna said the cases were detected by health officials...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has directed the 12-member National Task Force (NTF) set up Saturday to streamline oxygen allocation in the country to form sub-groups for each state/Union Territory to conduct an audit for determining whether the oxygen supplies allocated by the Centre are...