Washington: An influential coronavirus model has predicted there the US will register more than 631,000 deaths due to the novel coronavirus by June 1. Issued on Friday, the latest forecast from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington said...
Washington: The total number of global coronavirus cases has topped 105.3 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 2.29 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University. In its latest update Saturday morning, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that...
New Delhi: Pharma major Pfizer announced Friday withdrawal of its application for emergency use authorisation of its COVID-19 vaccine in India. However, just two day back an expert panel of India’s drugs regulatory authority had recommended against granting such approval to Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, officials...
New Delhi: Pharma major Pfizer Friday said it has decided to withdraw its application for Emergency Use Authorisation (EUA) of its COVID-19 vaccine in India. Pfizer was the first pharmaceutical firm to seek an emergency use authorisation from the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI)...
New Delhi: India's COVID-19 tally of cases went past 1.08 crore with 12,408 people testing positive for coronavirus infection in a day, while the recoveries have surged to 1,04,96,308, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated Friday. The total cases mounted to 1,08,02,591, while the death toll increased to 1,54,823 with 120 daily...
Washington: Coronavirus deaths in the United States surpassed 4,50,000 Thursday. The daily deaths in the United States remained stubbornly high at more than 3,000 a day. This fatality rate continued to worry the Joe Biden-led government despite falling infections and the arrival of multiple vaccines....
Mumbai: Superstar Salman Khan is all set to release his action drama Radhe in theatres on the occasion of Eid. The film is billed as a single screen entertainer. However, Salman Khan has admitted that the scene is rather bleak for the traditional big screen...
Washington: It's best to avoid them, unless you routinely take them for a medical condition. Although the evidence is limited, some painkillers might interfere with the very thing the vaccine is trying to do: generate a strong immune system response. Vaccines work by tricking the...
London: A vaccine to tackle the COVID-19 variants could be ready by autumn, the Oxford-AstraZeneca team said. "I think the actual work on designing a new vaccine is very, very quick because it's essentially just switching out the genetic sequence for the spike protein," said Andrew...
New Delhi: Over 21 per cent of the population, aged 10 years and above, showed evidence of past exposure to COVID-19 in the Indian Council of Medical Research’s (ICMR) latest national serosurvey, the government said Thursday. The government also noted that a large proportion of...
Every few years, India calls in its envoys for a reality check. At the 11th Heads of Mission Conference recently,...
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The growing tendency of different state police forces to cross jurisdictional boundaries in order to arrest individuals for their opinions...
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In the past, it was considered rather difficult to contest assembly elections without a recognisable chief ministerial candidate’s face as...
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The Pentagon’s announcement on 2 May to significantly reduce American troop presence in Germany marks a pivotal moment in the...
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