Coronavirus

New Delhi: Soon after Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the world's biggest vaccination drive in the country, the Congress launched its attack on the Centre saying vaccines were being allowed to be used without the mandatory trials of Phase 3. Speaking to IANS Congress leader...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday launched India's COVID-19 vaccination drive and asserted that the made-in-India vaccines being rolled out will ensure a ‘decisive victory’ for the country over the coronavirus pandemic. Addressing the nation ahead of the launch, Modi reminded people that two...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government kicked off the COVID-19 vaccination drive at 161 sites across the state Saturday. The vaccination drive marks a new beginning in the year-long war against coronavirus. After the launching of the vaccination drive, additional chief secretary, Health, PK Mohapatra informed that...

New Delhi: India's COVID-19 caseload climbed to 1,05,42,841 Saturday with 15,158 more people testing positive for the disease while recoveries surged to 1,01,79,715, according to the Union health ministry data. The country's death toll increased to 1,52,093 with 175 more fatalities, the data updated at...

London: After the news broke that 23 elderly patients died in Norway following their immunization with the Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA vaccine against Covid-19, the country has launched a detailed investigation into the reported fatalities that has shocked the world. Doctors in Norway have been asked to...

Washington: Nearly 90,000 people in the US may die from Covid-19 in the next three weeks, according to the latest projections of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Friday's CDC forecast predicts that 16,200 to 29,600 new deaths will likely be reported in...

Researchers writing in a British medical journal are recommending that ethnic minorities should be considered “extremely vulnerable” to COVID-19, a distinction that could give groups hard-hit by the pandemic earlier access to potentially life-saving vaccines. This suggestion is one of six made by the authors...

Beijing: In a piece of disturbing news coming ahead of India beginning its mass vaccination drive from Saturday, Chinese publication Global Times Friday said that health experts in the country have called on Norway and other countries to suspend the use of Pfizer's mRNA-based COVID-19...

London:  The United Kingdom is banning travel from the whole of South America and Portugal amid concerns over a new variant of the coronavirus in Brazil, authorities here announced. British Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said that as of 4 am Friday, arrivals from more than...

Tokyo: Will the Tokyo Olympics be held this year. Doubts still persist as Japanese cabinet minister Taro Kono has said ‘anything can happen’. The Games are scheduled to begin in the Japanese capital in a little over six months. But there is still no final...