Coronavirus

New Delhi: India's COVID-19 caseload rose to 99.79 lakh with 22,890 new infections being reported in a day, while total recoveries crossed the 95 lakh-mark, according to the Union Health Ministry's data updated Friday. With 338 more fatalities, the death toll due to coronavirus reached...

Washington: The US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) advisory panel, comprising external experts, has given an emergency use approval to Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. It is the second COVID-19 vaccine after Pfizer to receive such an authorisation in less than a week. FDA’s Vaccines and Related...

London: Oxford’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate has a better immune response when a two full-dose regime is used rather than a full-dose followed by a half-dose booster, the university said Thursday. The COVID-19 vaccine is expected to go into production very soon. The vaccine candidate, which...

Toronto: A new research adds to the growing body of evidence that Covid-19 pandemic is seriously affecting sleep habits, increasing stress and anxiety and further dependence on sleep medication. For the study, published in the Journal of Sleep Research, the research team conducted an online...

More than 50 per cent of India's population has expressed caution towards taking the virus vaccine, a new survey revealed. 'The GOQii COVID-19 – The Way Forward' survey was conducted with approximately 11,000 respondents to understand the openness to take the vaccine, the perception about...

Will children be able to get COVID-19 vaccines? Not until there's enough data from studies in different age groups, which will stretch well into next year. The Pfizer vaccine authorised in the U.S. This month is for people 16 and older. Testing began in October...

New Delhi: The AIIMS here is unable to find the required number of volunteers for the phase-3 trial of Bharat Biotech’s COVID-19 vaccine. Officials said people are unwilling to participate in the exercise. This is because they are thinking why take part in a trial...

Mumbai: Many Indians are appearing a bit hesitant to get vaccinated for COVID-19. This number is rising as COVID-19 infections have fallen sharply since a mid-September peak. Some people are worried about possible side-effects here, according to a survey of 18,000 people released on Thursday....

Bhubaneswar: A total of 376 patients have recovered from COVID-19 in the state, the Health and Family Welfare (H&FW) Department, Government of Odisha said in a series of tweets Thursday. With the new recoveries, the total number of recovered patients in Odisha now stands at...

Paris: French President Emmanuel Macron has tested positive for COVID-19, the presidential Elysee Palace announced Thursday. It said the president took a test "as soon as the first symptoms appeared." The brief statement did not say what symptoms Macron experienced. It said he would isolate...