Coronavirus

Washington: 2020 Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden leads US President Donald Trump by 10 percentage points nationally, according to a new poll. Biden's support stands at 52 per cent to Trump's 42 per cent among national registered voters, the NBC News and Wall Street Journal...

Washington: The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 46.4 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 1,199,500, according to the Johns Hopkins University. As of Monday morning, the total caseload and death toll stood at 46,420,940 and 1,199,501, respectively, the University's...

Moscow: SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for Covid-19, may not only damage key red blood cells, but also prevent formation of new ones, says a new study. In the study, published in the journal Archiv EuroMedica, researchers from Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) in Russia, along...

Washington: US President Donald Trump is all set to launch his final, two-day sprint of campaigning across the battleground states. The battleground states hold the key to the fate of the 2020 US Presidential election.  Pre-poll surveys have projected Democratic candidate Joe Biden far ahead...

Washington: A Stanford University study has revealed that 18 re-election campaign rallies of US President Donald Trump have resulted in more than 30,000 coroanvirus cases. According to the study, the rallies were held between June 20 and September 23, of which only three took place...

New Delhi: Bharat Biotech is planning to launch its vaccine for COVID-19 in the second quarter next year if it gets the requisite approvals from the Indian regulatory authorities, a top company official said. It said its immediate focus is to conduct the Phase 3 trials successfully across...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Sunday registered 1,709 new COVID-19 cases, taking the total tally across the state to 2,91,825. Out of the 1,709 new cases, 985 were reported from quarantine centres while 724 are local contacts.\ https://twitter.com/IPR_Odisha/status/1322780794167853057 The total number of active cases in the state now...

New York:  About 18 election rallies by President Donald Trump are estimated to have lead to more than 30,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus and likely led to more than 700 deaths, a new study by Stanford University researchers said, stressing that the communities where the...

New Delhi: With 46,963 new coronavirus infections being reported in a day, India's COVID-19 caseload rose to 81,84,082, while the number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 74.91 lakh, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated Sunday. The recovery rate stood at 91.54 per...

Washington: The overall number of global coronavirus cases was nearing the 46 million mark, while the deaths have surged to almost 1,193,860, according to the Johns Hopkins University. As of Sunday morning, the total caseload and death toll stood at 45,960,780 and 1,193,859, respectively, the...