Coronavirus

Ahmedabad: Indian cricket team’s head coach Ravi Shastri received Tuesday the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at a city hospital here. Ravi Shastri, who is 58, thanked the staff at the Apollo Hospital for their co-operation and support. “Got the first dose of COVID-19...

New Delhi: India’s COVID-19 case tally rose to 1,11,24,527 with 12,286 new infections being reported in a day. On the other hand the recoveries have surged to 1,07,98,921. This information was provided Tuesday morning by the Union Health Ministry. The death toll increased to 1,57,248 with...

San Francisco: Twitter has said it has begun labelling tweets that include misleading information about COVID-19 vaccines. It also said that it is using a ‘strike system’ to eventually remove accounts that repeatedly violate its rules.   The company said Monday that it has started using...

New Delhi: A Chinese state-backed hacking group has in recent weeks targeted the IT systems of two Indian vaccine makers. The vaccine makers have played a vital role in India’s immunisation campaign, cyber intelligence firm ‘Cyfirma’ was quoted as saying by ‘Reuters’. Both India and...

New Delhi: India expanded its COVID-19 vaccine coverage Monday by including everyone over 60 and those aged from 45 to 59 who have comorbidities in the net with Prime Minister Narendra Modi setting the pace by being the first person to take a jab. Thousands of...

New Delhi: India's COVID-19 tally surpassed 1.11 crore Monday with 15,510 new infections, while the active cases registered an increase for the fifth consecutive day and were recorded at 1,68,627, according to the Union Health Ministry data. The total coronavirus cases reached 1,11,12,241 in the country, while...

Washington: The total number of global COVID-19 cases has topped 114 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 2.53 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University. In its latest update on Monday morning, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed...

New Delhi: India is all set to embark on the third and the largest phase of vaccination drive against COVID-19 which will reach out to around 27 crore of population aged above 60 or above 45 with co-morbid conditions. Two coronavirus vaccine candidates-- Covishield and...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Monday took his first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at AIIMS here and appealed to all those who are eligible to get inoculated. Sister P Niveda, from Puducherry, administered Bharat Biotech's COVAXIN to the prime minister, sources said. "Took...

New Delhi: In December-January, it appeared coronavirus was tapering away in India. The three major aspects of the pandemic -- the curve of cases, deaths and hospitalisations -- which have been fluctuating, suddenly plummeted drastically. Many believed this may be the end of the pandemic,...