Coronavirus

Sao Paulo: Healthcare records and personal information of 16 million COVID-19 patients in Brazil were found exposed online, according to media reports. The treasure trove of data got leaked after a hospital employee uploaded on open source code repository GitHub a spreadsheet containing key information...

Moscow: The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) and Hetero, one of India's generic pharmaceutical companies, have agreed to produce in India over 100 million doses per year of Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine in India. The parties intend to start the production of Sputnik V at...

New Delhi: The Delhi Police used tear gas shells Friday to disperse a group of farmers who had reached the Singhu border as part of their ‘Delhi Chalo’ march to protest against the Centre’s new farm laws, a senior police officer said. The shells were...

New Delhi: India's COVID-19 tally of cases climbed to 93.09 lakh with 43,082 new cases in a day, while 87,18,517 people have recuperated so far pushing the national recovery rate to 93.64 per cent Friday, according to the Union Health Ministry data. The total coronavirus...

Ahmedabad: Five coronavirus patients were killed after a fire broke out in the ICU of a designated COVID-19 hospital in Gujarat’s Rajkot in the early hours of Friday, state Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel said. Twenty-six other coronavirus patients undergoing treatment at the hospital were...

London: AstraZeneca and Oxford University have acknowledged a manufacturing error that is raising questions about preliminary results of their experimental COVID-19 vaccine. A statement describing the error Wednesday came days after the company and the university described the shots as "highly effective" and made no...

New Delhi: The phase-three human clinical trial of indigenously developed anti-coronavirus vaccine candidate Covaxin began at the AIIMS here Thursday. Dr MV Padma Srivastava, the chief of Neurosciences Centre at the premier institute, and three other volunteers received the first dose of Covaxin. The anti-coronavirus...

Pneumonia vaccines can potentially reduce the impact of viruses such as Covid-19, said researchers, adding that it has reduced illness and death in patients with pneumonia, serious lung conditions and rotavirus, a common disease which causes severe diarrhoea and vomiting. The University of Melbourne-led research...

Mumbai: After the 23.9 per cent GDP contraction in the April-June quarter following the COVID-19 pandemic, economic recovery momentum has been stronger than expected, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das said Thursday. He however, cautioned that we need to be watchful of the...

New Delhi: Amid the global wave of COVID-19 in the past nine months, India saw the highest drop in work, social and household travels. This was said by survey consultancy firm EY. It said the survey was carried out in nine countries including China and...