Coronavirus

New Delhi: The Supreme Court, which completed 71 years of its functioning Thursday. It said it faced one of the major and unprecedented challenges in 2020 due to the wide spread of highly contagious coronavirus. However, the Supreme Court said it ensured that the access...

New Delhi: India will soon make available many more COVID-19 vaccines to other countries after two Made-In-India jabs have already been introduced to the world, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Thursday. He made the statement while emphasising India’s global responsibility in fighting the pandemic. Narendra...

New Delhi: The number of people who have tested positive for the UK variant of SARS-CoV-2 in the country has climbed to 165, the Union Health Ministry said Thursday. All these persons have been kept in single room isolation in designated Health Care facilities by...

New Delhi: With 11,666 new COVID-19 cases reported in the last 24 hours, India Thursday continued its streak of low single-day cases, even as the overall tally mounted to 1,07,01,193, health officials said. For the past 21 days, the country has been recording less than...

Washington: The total number of global coronavirus cases has topped 100.7 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 2.17 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University. In its latest update on Thursday morning, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed...

Beijing: China has administered 22.77 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines. It has also increased its daily testing capacity for the virus to 15 million. These measures have been taken to step up drive to combat the latest resurgence of coronavirus cases in China ahead of...

New Delhi: The Covaxin vaccine developed by Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech is effective against UK variants of COVID-19. This information was shared Wednesday by Bharat Biotech after a study on 26 participants. The findings are in an article – Neutralization of UK-variant VUI-202012/01 with Covaxin vaccinated...

Hyderabad: Covaxin, the Covid vaccine developed by Bharat Biotech, effectively neutralises UK variants of SARS-CoV-2 reducing the possibility of mutant virus escape, finds a study. According to the research paper carried by bioRxiv, the preprint server for biology, the study has dispelled the uncertainty of...

New York: Global Covid-19 cases surpassed 100 million Tuesday, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University. The global case count reached 10,00,32,461, with a total of 21,49,818 deaths worldwide, as of 2:22 p.m. local time (1922 GMT), the...

London: The United Kingdom hit Tuesday another grim COVID-19 milestone as the country’s death toll crossed 100,000 since the peak of the pandemic last year. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) assessment of death certificate data reveals that there have been nearly 104,000 deaths since...