Coronavirus

Washington: Drug company ‘Eli Lilly’ has said that partial results from a study testing an antibody drug give hints that it may help mild to moderately ill COVID-19 patients from needing to be hospitalized. It is something that no current coronavirus medicine has been able...

Lucknow/Ghaziabad: Former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Kalyan Singh had earlier tested positive for coronavirus. He was being treated at the Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences in Lucknow. However, Kalyan Singh was shifted Wednesday to a private hospital in Ghaziabad. The former UP chief...

Cuttack: As many as 248 new COVID-19 cases were detected under Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) limits in last 24 hours, CMC said Wednesday. While 67 of them were home quarantine cases, 32 were from institutional quarantine centres and the remaining 149 were local contact ones....

New Delhi: Delhi’s COVID-19 tally rose to more than 2.30 lakh after 4,473 fresh cases were reported on Wednesday. This is highest single-day COVID-19 spike in the national capital recorded so far. The previous highest single-day COVID-19 spike was 4,321 cases. It was recorded Saturday...

Tirupati (Andhra Pradesh): Tirupati Lok Sabha MP Balli Durga Prasad Rao, who was undergoing treatment for COVID-19, died Wednesday at a hospital in Chennai. This information was shared by his family members here. The 65-year old ruling YSR Congress MP was admitted to the hospital...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha health department Wednesday said that 4,121 persons who earlier tested positive for COVID-19 have recovered and are being discharged. Out of the 4,121 persons, 752 are from Khordha, 440 from Cuttack, 275 from Puri, 272 from Jajpur, 268 from Nuapada, 187 from Angul,...

Moscow: Russia’s wealth fund has agreed to supply 100 million doses of its coronavirus vaccine, Sputnik-V to Dr Reddy’s Laboratories. It is a part of Moscow’s plan to distribute Sputnik-V to some of its ally countries. This information was given by officials of the Russian...

New Delhi: Delhi BJP president Adesh Gupta Wednesday said he has tested positive for COVID-19. "Last week, I took a COVID test after having light fever. Its report was negative. I was tested again as I was feeling unwell. The report has now come as...

Beijing: The general population in China may start getting access to locally manufactured COVID-19 vaccines from November or December, according to a top scientist from the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). During a programme telecast by state broadcaster CCTV this week, Wu...

New Delhi: As India's coronavirus case tally topped 50 lakh Wednesday, the Congress asked the government to tell the nation how the pandemic will be controlled and if it will blame god to evade accountability. Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala also compared the battle against...