Coronavirus

New Delhi: India has become the fastest country to administer 13 crore COVID-19 vaccine doses, taking just 95 days to do so, the Union Health Ministry said Wednesday. The US took 101 days to administer these many doses, while China 109 days, the ministry said....

Balurghat (WB): Lashing out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Wednesday alleged that the second COVID-19 wave in the country and its management is a ‘Modi-made disaster’. Addressing an election rally at Balurghat in Dakshin Dinajpur district, the TMC chief...

New Delhi: A new experimental COVID-19 vaccine has shown promising results in early animal testing, according to researchers who say the preventive may provide protection against existing and future strains of the novel coronavirus, and cost about USD 1 per dose. The vaccine developed by...

New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Wednesday attacked the Centre's vaccine strategy and alleged it's akin to demonetisation. "Union government's vaccine strategy is not less than the demonetisation… common people will queue up… will bear the loss of wealth, health and life… and at the...

Kolkata: West Bengal is reeling under an acute shortage of Covid-19 vaccines amidst a dreary long eight-phase assembly election, but leaders campaigning here have already spent Rs 100 crore to fly around to pitch for votes. At least 90 per cent of this spending can...

Kolkata: Noted Bengali poet Shankha Ghosh died Wednesday morning while he was in isolation at his residence after testing positive for COVID-19, his family said. Ghosh, 89, was found to be COVID-positive April 14. He was in home isolation on the advice of doctors, according...

New Delhi: The single day rise in new coronavirus infections inched closer to 3 lakh pushing India's total tally of COVID-19 cases to 1,56,16,130, while the death toll increased to 1,82,553 with a record 2,023 daily fatalities, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated Wednesday. A total of 2,95,041 fresh infections were...

Washington: The overall global Covid-19 caseload has topped 142.6 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 3.04 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University. In its latest update Wednesday morning, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the current...

Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh will now offer the Covid vaccine free of cost from May 1, as India's vaccine net widens to include all people over the age of 18. The decision was taken late on Tuesday night at a virtual cabinet meeting chaired by Chief...

New Delhi: While the streets of the national capital wore a deserted look on the first day of the six-day lockdown Monday, sounds of ambulance siren echoed in the city roads, especially in the areas having dedicated Covid-19 hospitals. In the last seven days (from...