Coronavirus

New Delhi: With an aim to expand the basket of COVID-19 vaccines and enhance the pace of inoculation in India, the Centre said Tuesday it has fast-tracked emergency approval for foreign-produced jabs. However, these COVID-19 vaccines must have similar clearances in other countries. The move...

Nagpur: Actor-activist Vira Sathidar, best known for featuring in the National Award-winning film Court, died Tuesday due to COVID-19 related complications. This information was confirmed by filmmaker Chaitanya Tamhane. Vira Sathidar was in his early sixties. He was admitted to a city hospital after he...

Palghar: In a shocking tragedy on Gudi Padva, at least 10 Covid-19 patients have died in the Vasai town due to alleged shortage of medical oxygen, officials said here Tuesday. According to relatives of the deceased COVID-19 patients and local authorities, at least 10 persons...

New Delhi: The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) said Tuesday than more than 850 million doses of the Sputnik V vaccine are going to be produced annually in India. Also the approval for the emergency use of the vaccine against COVID-19 infections in India has...

New Delhi: A total of 1,61,736 new coronavirus infections have been reported in the last 24 hours. The new coronavirus infections have pushed the total tally in India to 1,36,89,453. The national coronavirus recovery rate dropped further to 89.51 per cent, according to data updated...

New Delhi: India’s drug regulator has granted permission for the restricted emergency use of Russian COVID-19 vaccine ‘Sputnik V’ with certain conditions. It means that a third vaccine will be available in India after Covaxin and Covishield. It has been said that Sputnik V has a 91.6 per...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha registered 1,784 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, the I & PR department, government of Odisha, informed this in a tweet. The new cases have taken the total tally in the state to 3, 53, 086. Among the new infections, 1,035...

New Delhi: On the second day of the ‘Tika Utsav’ vaccination drive, more than 37 lakh COVID-19 doses were administered Monday. The new additions took the cumulative vaccination doses given in India to 10,82,92,423 so far, the Union Health Ministry said. Many workplace vaccination centres became operational across...

Mumbai: RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das asked banks Monday to remain watchful of the evolving situation and emphasised the importance of credit flow to sustain the nascent economic recovery amid rising coronavirus cases. Shaktikanta Das had a meeting with MD/CEOs of public sector banks and select...

New Delhi: In view of exponential surge of Covid-19 cases in the national capital, the health department of the Delhi Government has declared as many as 14 big private hospitals as fully Covid-care centres Monday. The decision came hours after the Delhi Chief Minister Arvind...