Coronavirus

New Delhi: India has recorded 14 more cases with the new UK coronavirus mutant strain, taking total number of such cases to 20, the Union Health Ministry said Wednesday. Of the 20 cases, eight have been registered at National Centre for Disease Control in Delhi,...

Washington: The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 81.9 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 1.78 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University. In its latest update on Wednesday morning, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed...

New Delhi: Standard defense mechanisms such as masks, sanitisation and physical distancing will work to contain the new coronavirus strain. The new coronavirus strain has been detected in six people who came from the UK. Scientists said Tuesday that the existing precautionary measures are sufficient...

New Delhi: Samples of all international passengers who arrived in India from December 9 to 22 and tested positive for COVID-19 will be subjected to genome sequencing. This is a part of the Centre’s strategy to detect the mutated coronavirus strain which has emerged in...

New Delhi: India is likely to extend the suspension of passenger flights to and from the United Kingdom (UK). Giving this information here Tuesday Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said such a step is necessary to check the spread of the new strain of coronavirus....

New Delhi: COVID-19 vaccines will work against new variants of the virus the government said Tuesday. It informed that is no evidence that current COVID-19 vaccines will fail to protect against the SARS-CoV-2 mutants reported from the UK or South Africa. This information was given...

Sydney: Cricket Australia (CA) decided Tuesday to retain Sydney as the venue for the third Test against India. Earlier there were talks that the game may be shifted to the MCG because of the outbreak of a second wave of COVID-19. It was then thought...

New York: Pharmaceutical giants Pfizer and Moderna have published data showing their COVID-19 vaccines to be more than 90% effective. The results of the two companies have been lauded the world over as a major achievement in the field of science. Above all the vaccines...

Chennai: One person who returned to Tamil Nadu from the UK has tested positive for the new strain of coronavirus. This information was given by a top Tamil Nadu health department official Tuesday. It takes the total number of patients in India with the new...

Johannesburg: South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has intensified restrictions in the country and reimposed a ban on the sale of liquor amid a rise in COVID-19 cases in the past one week. Not wearing masks in public will now be a criminal offence with the...