Coronavirus

New Delhi: Despite diagnostic testing of passengers before the departure of international flights, instances of in-flight transmission of the novel coronavirus are likely. This is according to a study that assessed people who travelled aboard a plane from Dubai to New Zealand. The study also...

Bhubaneswar: After a gap of seven months, Odisha Tuesday registered daily new COVID-19 cases below 100, which pushed the tally to 3,34,529, a health department official said. The state had reported below 100 single-day COVID-19 cases for the last time June 6, 2020. "All credit...

London: With new Covid-19 strains reported from several parts of the world giving fresh threats to the fight against the pandemic, a group of scientists is calling on governments to consider the continued use of strict control measures as the only way to reduce the...

New Delhi: Senior off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin has revealed that the Indian players were not allowed to share the lift with their Australian counterparts during the Sydney Test. This move was something the visitors found ‘too difficult to digest’. Both teams had to stay in a...

New Delhi: President Ram Nath Kovind asserted Monday that while India remains committed to peace, its Armed Forces are ‘adequately mobilised’ in a ‘well-coordinated’ move to thwart any attempt to undermine national security. He referred to the ‘expansionist’ move by China in Ladakh last year...

New Delhi: India recorded the lowest number of coronavirus fatalities in over eight months as there were 131 more deaths the previous day, the Health Ministry said Monday. The COVID-19 caseload rose to 1,06,67,736 with 13,203 more infections. There are 1,84,182 active cases, comprising 1.73...

Mexico City: Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Sunday he has tested positive for COVID-19 and that the symptoms are mild. Mexico's president, who has been criticized for his handling of his country's pandemic, said on his official Twitter account that he is under...

Washington: The total number of global coronavirus cases has surpassed the 99 million mark, while the deaths have surged to more than 2.12 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University. In its latest update on Monday morning, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering...

Amaravati: A woman public health worker, who had taken coronavirus vaccine January 19, died at a government-run hospital in Guntur in the early hours of Sunday while undergoing treatment for alleged reactions. While family members of Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) worker Vijaya Lakshmi (44)...

London: One of England's leading medical officers Sunday urged the public to continue to follow the strict lockdown rules because any vaccine-related immunity from COVID-19 takes at least three weeks to kick in. Professor Jonathan Van-Tam, England's Deputy Chief Medical Officer, also warned that there...