Coronavirus

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Monday said life should move on even in Covid-19 times and declined to entertain a plea seeking the postponement of the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) and Joint Entrance Examination (JEE), slated in September. A bench headed by Justice...

Canberra: Australian researchers are set to begin human trials for a type of cancer drug to treat Covid-19, with the hopes of stopping the virus in its tracks before it leaves the nose and throat. The drug, called BromAc, is administered directly as a nasal...

New Delhi: The number of people who have recuperated from COVID-19 in India went past 19 lakh Monday. India registered a record 57,584 patients recovering within a span of 24 hours. The fresh recoveries have pushed the recovery rate to over 72 per cent, according...

Balasore: The Balasore district administration announced Udaypur and Shahbajipur villages of Shahbajipur panchayat under Bhograi tehsil as containment zones for ten days starting August 17 noon. In an order, district collector K Sudarshan Chakravarthy said Udaypur and Shahbajipur villages reported 12 COVID-19 positive cases. So...

New Delhi: The steps taken by the Narendra Modi government in the healthcare sector in the last six years ensured India's success in containing the effects of the coronavirus pandemic to a large extent, Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said Monday. India's novel coronavirus...

Beijing: China has granted the first invention patent to a COVID-19 vaccine co-developed by biopharmaceutical firm CanSino Biologics Inc in the country, which experts said demonstrates the vaccine's originality and creativity. According to a Global Times report, the vaccine is a recombinant adenovirus vaccine named...

New Delhi: The total number of tests for detection of COVID-19 has crossed the 3 crore mark in India, according to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) data. A total of 3,00,41,400 samples have been tested until August 16 with 7,31,697 samples being tested...

New York: A US study of pregnant patients during the pandemic has found that in-person health care visits were not an important risk factor for contracting the COVID-19 infection and necessary in-person care was safely performed in the hospitals. In an analysis of the data...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Monday reported 2,244 fresh COVID-19 cases, taking the total tally in the state to 62,294. Out of the 2,244 new cases, 1,290 were reported from quarantine centres while 854 are local contacts. District wise breakdown: Angul reported 15 new cases, similarly Balasore 142,...

Washington: Japanese tennis player Kei Nishikori has tested positive for coronavirus and has withdrawn from the Western & Southern Open which starts next week. "This morning while still in Florida, I got tested for COVID-19 and tested positive," said Nishikori in a statement Sunday as...