Coronavirus

Mumbai: Maharashtra's Covid-19 deaths rose to a staggering new high of 832 with the state tally zooming past the 64,000 mark, while there was also an increase in the number of active cases, health officials said Sunday. Surpassing the previous high of 773 deaths (April...

New Delhi: Olympic-bound boxer Simranjit Kaur could miss training for a fortnight or more as she has tested positive for Covid-19, said a coach associated with the elite women's national camp. Punjab's Simranjit, 25, had qualified in the women's 60 kg category in March last...

Mumbai: Adnan Sami Sunday took the Covid-19 vaccine. The singer took to social media to encourage netizens to get the jab, saying it is the only way to secure oneself amid the ongoing second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. Sharing a photograph of his vaccination...

Chandigarh: Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh Sunday directed the health department to order 30 lakh Covishield doses for vaccination of the 18-45 age group, with directions to use the CM Covid Relief Fund for meeting the vaccine requirements of the poor. The Chief Minister asked...

Mumbai: Singer Armaan Malik Sunday took to Twitter to express his respect for the Sikh community for organising food and oxygen langars during the ongoing second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. "Utmost respect for the Sikh community for organising the covid langars (food and oxygen)...

Mumbai: In a significant decision, Maharashtra's Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government has decided to vaccinate all the people in the state aged 18-45 free of cost, a minister said Sunday. The state will bear the cost of inoculation of all its people between the age...

Mumbai: Actor Gurmeet Choudhary took to social media, Sunday, to announce that he will be opening hospitals in Patna and Lucknow to help with the Covid outbreak in the country. In his post, the actor says that the hospitals will have "ultra modern" facilities and...

New Delhi: Ahead of vaccination for those aged above 18 beginning next month, Health Ministers of Congress-ruled states Sunday accused the Central government of "doing politics". Addressing a joint press conference, Health Ministers T.S. Singh Deo (Chhattisgarh), Raghu Sharma (Rajasthan), Banna Gupta (Jharkhand) and Balbir...

Dubai: Saudi Arabia is shipping 80 metric tonnes of liquid oxygen to India as the country is running low on supplies due to an unprecedented spike in coronavirus cases. India logged a record of 3,49,691 new coronavirus infections in a day on Sunday, taking its...

New Delhi: Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal announced Sunday the extension of the ongoing lockdown in Delhi for another week. Arvind Kejriwal said saying the severity of COVID-19 is unabated and positivity rate has been as high as 36 per cent in the last few days....