Coronavirus

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has taken strong note of an ‘alarming situation’ of passengers not properly wearing masks in flights. The High Court issued guidelines to all domestic airlines and DGCA for strict compliance. It said penal action will be taken against the...

New Delhi: More than 20 lakh people were inoculated against coronavirus March 8. It is the highest number of jabs in a day so far. The new additions took the total number of vaccine doses administered in India to over 2.3 crore, the Union Health...

New Delhi: The Delhi government announced Tuesday that COVID-19 vaccine will be administered to people free-of-cost at its hospitals in future phases of the inoculation drive. It said that a provision of Rs 50 crore has been made in its annual budget for this scheme....

New Delhi: Public representatives and politicians should not make unauthorised statements indicating that the COVID-19 pandemic is nearing an end. These remarks invoke a ‘false sense of security’ among the people, the Indian Medical Association (IMA) said Monday. The association’s reaction came after Union Health...

New Delhi: Maharashtra, Kerala, Punjab, Karnataka, Gujarat and Tamil Nadu are the six states that cumulatively account for 86.25 per cent of the new coronavirus cases reported in the past 24 hours, the Health Ministry said Monday. Maharashtra has reported the highest daily new cases...

New Delhi: New cases of coronavirus infection in India were recorded above 18,000 for the third consecutive day taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 1,12,29,398, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated Monday. The active cases also registered an increase for the sixth consecutive day...

San Francisco: In a shocking revelation, the Wall Street Journal has reported that Russian intelligence agencies used fake new websites to undermine public confidence in Pfizer and other US-based Covid vaccines. Citing US officials, the report said Sunday that four online publications linked to Russian...

Washington: The total number of global COVID-19 cases has topped 116.8 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 2.59 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University. In its latest update Monday morning, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that...

New Delhi: The total number of COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in India has crossed 2.06 crore, the Union Health Ministry said Saturday. The nationwide vaccination drive against COVID-19 was rolled out January 16. The first to get the COVID-19 vaccine jabs were healthcare workers followed...

New Delhi: The Centre has outlined SOPs for vaccination of healthcare workers and frontline staff who could not get registered for it through the CoWIN app for some reasons, Delhi health department officials said Saturday. In a March 5 order issued by the Delhi health...