New Delhi: India's COVID-19 caseload rose to 96.44 lakh, while the total number of people who have recuperated from the disease crossed 91 lakh pushing the national recovery rate to 94.37 per cent, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated Sunday. The COVID-19 active caseload plunged to almost 4...
Boston: Using computer simulations, scientists have analysed the airflow patterns inside a car's passenger cabin, shedding light on the potential ways to reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission while sharing rides with others. The study, published in the journal Science Advances, assessed the airflow inside...
New York: Mucous membranes of the nose and mouth might play a ‘significant role’ in curbing the spread of COVID-19, say scientists who call for more studies to evaluate the role played by this arm of the immune system in asymptomatic and mild states of...
New Delhi: India is the largest buyer of COVID-19 vaccines in the world with 1.6 billion doses, according to a global analysis, a number some scientists say could cover 800 million people, or 60 per cent of its population, and will be enough to develop ‘herd...
New Delhi: India's COVID-19 caseload rose to 96.08 lakh with 36,652 new cases in a day, while 90,58,822 people have recuperated from the disease so far pushing the national recovery rate to 94.28 per cent Saturday, according to the Union Health Ministry data. The total...
Washington: The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 65.7 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 1.51 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University. In its latest update on Saturday, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that...
New York: Chronic kidney disease is the leading risk factor for hospitalisation from COVID-19, says a study of electronic health records. For the study, the researchers examined the health records of 12,971 individuals who were tested for COVID-19 within the Geisinger Health System in the...
Mumbai: Actors Varun Dhawan and Neetu Kapoor, and director Raj Mehta, have tested COVID-19 positive. The stars as well as the filmmaker are part of the unit of the film Jug Jugg Jeeyo. They had all arrived in Chandigarh a few days ago for an...
Birmingham (US): An Alabama man who spent World War II repairing bomb-damaged trains in France has recovered from a fight with COVID-19. Now he is raring to go and celebrate his 104th birthday Thursday. Major Wooten was physically drained and a little fuzzy mentally after...
Washington: Treating novel coronavirus infection in ferrets with the antiviral drug ‘Molnupiravir’ has proved to be hugely successful. The antiviral drug has completely suppressed virus transmission among the mammals within 24 hours. This has been reported by a new study which may lead to a...
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It is a happy augury for Indian democracy that the country's young talents aspiring to join the legal profession have...
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In any democracy, the most disturbing threat to freedom is not always censorship. Sometimes it is the language used to...
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By Dilip Cherian India’s bureaucracy may be running short of one thing more important than babus: succession. The Centre’s decision...
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