Coronavirus

Puri: It took over 12 hours to shift an elderly COVID-19 patient from Puri district headquarters hospital (DHH) to COVID-19 hospital located just 300 metres away from the DHH. The above incident reported Wednesday evening has exposed the tall claims of the district administration about...

Pune: Vital health parameters of the two volunteers, who have been administered the Oxford COVID-19 vaccine candidate at a medical college here as part of the phase II clinical trial, are normal, a senior official from the medical facility said Thursday. Two men, aged 32...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Thursday registered a record single-day spike of 3,384 new COVID-19 cases, taking the total tally in the state to 90,986. Out of the 3,384 new cases, 2,128 cases were reported from quarantine centres while 1,256 are local contacts. District wise breakdown: Angul reported...

Washington: The Food and Drug Administration Wednesday authorised the first rapid coronavirus test that doesn't need any special computer equipment to get results. The 15-minute test from Abbott Laboratories will sell for USD 5, giving it a competitive edge over similar tests that need to...

New Delhi: Registering over 75,000 COVID-19 cases for the first time in a span of 24 hours, India's virus tally sprinted past 33 lakh Thursday, while  the number of recoveries crossed the 25 lakh mark, according to the Union Health Ministry data. A record 75,760 infections...

Allahabad: Allahabad high court has granted bail to 16 Tablighi Jamaat members, who are foreign nationals and were allegedly hiding in Allahabad during nationwide lockdown. Justice S. S.Shamshery passed the order on two separate bail applications. One bail application was filed by Muhammad Madalee, Hasan...

Washington DC:  Moderna Inc said Wednesday its experimental COVID-19 vaccine induced immune responses in older adults similar to those in younger participants, offering hope that it will be effective in people considered to be at high risk for severe complications from the coronavirus. The company...

New Delhi: Not just the lungs, COVID-19 can affect almost all organs and the initial symptoms may be totally unrelated to chest complaints, experts at AIIMS in New Delhi said Wednesday. They stressed that classification of cases into mild, moderate and severe categories based just...

Washington: The overall number of global coronavirus cases has surpassed the 24 million mark, while the deaths have increased to over 824,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University. As of Thursday morning, the total number of cases stood at 24,085,646 and the fatalities rose to...

New York: Researchers have found that thousands of social media posts on popular platforms Twitter and Instagram were tied to financial scams and possible counterfeit goods specific to COVID-19 products. The study, published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, has identified nearly 2,000 fraudulent...