Coronavirus

Lucknow: Students and faculty at an engineering college in Lucknow have created an indigenous oxygen concentrator that claims to aid those suffering from Covid-19. Adarsh Vikram and Ambesh Pratap Singh, both electrical engineering students at Tirupati College of Engineering in Mohanlalganj in Lucknow, created this...

Jaipur: Around 21 persons lost their lives at a village in Rajasthan's Sikar district allegedly after the burial of a Covid victim, whose body was brought from Gujarat, without following any Covid protocols. The incident was reported recently from Kheerva village in Sikar, the Assembly...

New Delhi: Taking note of the ‘unprecedented surge’ in COVID-19 cases, the Supreme Court Saturday moved to decongest prisons and ordered the immediate release of prisoners who were granted bail or parole last year. Observing that the decongestion of prisons housing around 4 lakh inmates...

Geneva: The head of the World Trade Organisation said Friday the US administration's call to remove patent protections on COVID-19 vaccines could help expand fair access to vaccines but might not be the most “critical issue,” as officials in Europe increasingly insisted that more vaccine...

New Delhi: The Union Health Ministry has issued revised guidelines for home isolation for patients with mild or asymptomatic symptoms. The new revised guidelines said, "Patient under home isolation will stand discharged and end isolation after at least 10 days have passed from onset of...

Washington: Describing the surge of COVID-19 infections and deaths in India as ‘nothing short of heartbreaking’, Vice President Kamala Harris said Friday that the country's welfare is critically important to the United States. Pledging that the Biden administration is determined to help India in its...

Mumbai: India would be able to achieve ‘herd immunity’ only after October, and the country needs to drastically scale up its vaccination drive, a SBI Ecowrap report said Friday. The report said that till date, the country has given around 16.50 crore vaccine doses with...

London:  The world's largest cargo plane left Belfast in Northern Ireland Friday, carrying three 18-tonne oxygen generators and 1,000 ventilators as part of the UK's latest response to India's COVID-19 crisis, the British government said. The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), which has funded...

Patna: Amid the coronavirus pandemic, human sensitivity is also declining with a case emerging from Bihar's Araria where family members refused to perform last rites of a woman who succumbed to the disease, and social activists finally removed her body with an earth mover, two...

New Delhi: Two days after warning that the third wave of Covid is inevitable, Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government, K. VijayRaghavan Friday stepped back, saying that it may not happen if strong steps and measures are taken. Addressing the Union Health Ministry press briefing,...