Coronavirus

London: The UK's Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, have been vaccinated against the novel coronavirus, the Buckingham Palace confirmed in a statement. The vaccinations were administered on Saturday by a household doctor at the Windsor Castle where the...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Sunday registered 260 new coronavirus cases, taking the total tally in the state to 3,31,862. Out of the 260 new cases, 151   were reported from quarantine centres while 109 are local contacts. District wise breakdown: https://twitter.com/IPR_Odisha/status/1348153335086399490 The total number of active cases in the...

New Delhi: Almost a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, about 200 vaccine candidates are in the works and 10 have been either approved by several countries or are under limited emergency use. As India prepares to launch its vaccine drive January 16, here is a...

New Delhi: India generated around 33,000 tonnes of COVID-19 biomedical waste in the last seven months, with Maharashtra contributing the maximum (3,587 tonnes) to it, according to Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) data. Over 5,500 tonnes of COVID-19 waste was generated across the country in...

New Delhi: India's COVID-19 caseload rose to 1,04,50,284 with 18,645 infections being reported in a day, while the recoveries have surged to 1,00,75,950, according to the Union Health Ministry's data updated Sunday. The death toll reached 1,50,999 with 201 more people succumbing to the disease...

New Delhi: More than three quarters of COVID-19 patients hospitalised for treatment have at least one ongoing symptom six months after initially becoming unwell, according to a study published in The Lancet journal. The research looked at the long-term effects of the novel coronavirus infection...

New York: Researchers have developed a nanoparticle vaccine that elicits a virus-neutralising antibody response after a single dose. The team, including Peter Kim from Stanford University in the US, said that the primary target for Covid-19 vaccines is the spike protein, which is necessary for...

New Delhi: India's COVID-19 tally of cases climbed to 1,04,31,639 with 18,222 new cases in a day, while 1,00,56,651 people have recuperated so far pushing the national recovery rate to 96.41 per cent Saturday, according to Union Health Ministry data. There are 2,24,190 active cases...

Washington: The overall global coronavirus caseload has topped 88.8 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 1.91 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 the current...

Jaipur: The number of cases of Covid patients having the new mutated strain of the virus, first detected in the UK last year, rose to four with a recent returnee also found to have it, officials said Friday. The new case was detected in Jaipur...