Coronavirus

New Delhi: India is likely to have a COVID-19 vaccine in the New Year, Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) VG Somani hinted Thursday.        Speaking at a webinar, VG Somani said the most important thing is that the industry and research organisations have stood the...

New Delhi: The Health Ministry said Thursday that it had ensured delivery of 36,433 ventilators to government hospitals in India. The average cost of the ventilators now ranges between Rs 2-10 lakh. Costs have come down as the domestic industry took up manufacturing of the...

New Delhi: A dry run for COVID-19 vaccination will be conducted by all state and union territory administrations January 2 to test the linkages between planning and implementation and to identify the challenges, the Centre said Thursday. The activity is proposed to be conducted in...

Bhubaneswar: Four UK returnees in Bhubaneswar are yet to be traced, leaving the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) authorities in a tizzy. A total of 62 persons returned from the UK to Bhubaneswar in the month of December so far. The authorities have so far succeeded...

Washington: Does it spread more easily? Make people sicker? Mean that treatments and vaccines won't work? Questions are multiplying as fast as new variants of the coronavirus, especially the one moving through England and now popping up in the US and other countries. Scientists say...

London: The decreased arterial blood oxygen levels in many Covid-19 cases could be caused by infection in carotid bodies by SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the pandemic, says a new study. Carotid bodies, located on either side of the neck next to the carotid artery,...

New Delhi: Fourteen more people were found infected in India with the UK strain of the coronavirus Wednesday. West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh reported such cases for the first time, taking the total tally to 20 in two days. A cautious government extended the temporary...

New York: A nurse in California tested positive for Covid-19 eight days after receiving the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine approved for emergency use in the US. Matthew W., 45, talked about receiving the vaccine on December 18 in a Facebook post, said the...

Beijing: A Chinese inactivated vaccine shows 79.34 percent efficacy against COVID-19, according to the interim results of the phase-3 clinical trials unveiled by its developer Wednesday. The inactivated vaccine has been developed by the Beijing Biological Products Institute Co., Ltd. under the China National Biotec...

Denver: A Colorado man who became the first reported person in the US to have a COVID-19 variant that is spreading in the United Kingdom hadn't been traveling, health officials have said, triggering a host of questions about how the new strain showed up in...