Coronavirus

New Delhi: In their first summit under the Quad framework Friday, leaders of India, the US, Japan and Australia will deliberate on expanding cooperation in the Indo-Pacific region. They will also focus on a coronavirus vaccine initiative to effectively deal with the pandemic sources said....

Kolkata: Two senior citizens have died in West Bengal allegedly after being administered coronavirus vaccine shots. It has prompted the, health department of West Bengal to launch a probe, a senior official said Thursday. Primary findings suggest the fatalities were due to cardiac ailments. However,...

New Delhi: The Centre Thursday said Bharat Biotech's indigenously developed Covaxin is out of the ‘clinical trial mode’ and that it has now been granted the restricted emergency use authorisation. Addressing a weekly press conference, NITI Aayog member (Health) Dr V K Paul said Covaxin...

Geneva: When the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus a pandemic one year ago Thursday, it did so only after weeks of resisting the term and maintaining that the highly infectious virus could still be stopped. A year later, the U.N. Agency is still struggling...

New Delhi: India recorded 22,854 cases of coronavirus infection in a day, the highest in around two-and-half-months, taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 1,12,85,561, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated Thursday. The death toll increased to 1,58,189 with 126 daily new fatalities, the data updated at 8...

Washington: The United States Congress approved the landmark USD 1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill Wednesday, as President Joe Biden and Democrats claimed a major triumph on legislation marshalling the government's spending might against twin pandemic and economic crises that have upended a nation. The House...

Tirupati: At least 57 students of a TTD-run vedic school at Tirumala have tested positive for the coronavirus. "TTD management has shifted the students immediately to SVIMS (Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences) super specialty hospital at Tirupati for better treatment," said a Tirumala Tirupati...

New Delhi: India's COVID-19 tally rose to 1,12,62,707 with 17,921 fresh cases being reported in a day, while the recoveries surpassed 1.09 crore, the Union Health Ministry said Wednesday. The death toll increased to 1,58,063 with 133 new fatalities, according to the ministry data updated...

Washington: The overall number of global Covid-19 cases has topped 117.5 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 2.60 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...

New York:  COVID-19 vaccines developed by Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech significantly appear less effective against the COVID variant that first emerged in South Africa, finds a new study. The study, published in the journal Nature, indicated that the percentage of protective antibodies that neutralised the variant...