Coronavirus

New Delhi: India's COVID-19 caseload has gone up to 1,06,54,533 with 14,849 people testing positive for the coronavirus infection in a day, while the number of recoveries has surged to 1,03,16,786, according to the health ministry. The death toll due to the viral disease has...

New Delhi: The number of people who have tested positive for the UK variant of COVID-19 in India has climbed to 150, the Union Health Ministry said Saturday. All of them have been kept in single room isolation in designated health care facilities by the...

New Delhi: Emphasising that utmost standards of sanitisation and fumigation may be made during the Budget Session commencing next week, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla Saturday directed all agencies concerned to work in unison to contain the possibility of COVID-19 infection. Birla's direction came during...

Washington: Terming India a ‘true friend’ which is using its pharmaceutical sector to help the global community, the US has applauded New Delhi for gifting COVID-19 vaccines to several countries. In the last few days, India has sent consignments of domestically produced coronavirus vaccines under...

New Delhi: With 14,256 fresh cases, India's COVID-19 tally climbed to 1,06,39,684 Saturday, while 1,03,00,838 patients have recuperated so far in the country, pushing the national recovery rate to 96.81 per cent, according to the health ministry. There are 1,85,662 active cases of the coronavirus...

Jaipur: A 35-year-old woman in Rajasthan's Bharatpur has been posing an unique challenge to all medical theories on COVID-19, after testing positive 31 times in last five months. Her results have been contradicting the novel Coronavirus' incubation cycle that is believe to end in 14...

Washington: US President Joe Biden has unveiled his ‘wartime’ national strategy to boost the fight against the raging COVID-19 pandemic. He has made coronavirus test followed by quarantine mandatory for all travellers coming from overseas. Announcing the measures, Joe Biden said it would take months...

New Delhi: India's first indigenous vaccine against COVID-19, Covaxin, showed enhanced immune response without any serious side effects in the participants enrolled for the phase 1 trials, according to the results published in The Lancet Infectious Disease journal. Developed by Bharat Biotech in collaboration with...

Geneva: Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), said that the global COVID-19 caseload is expected to hit 100 million by the end of January, but vaccines have the potential to bring the pandemic under control. In his address to the extraordinary...

United Nations: UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has expressed sadness at the loss of lives in a fire at the Serum Institute of India facility in Pune. Antonio Guterres is hoping that the incident is fully investigated, his spokesperson has said. Five men died after...