Coronavirus

Washington: The global coronavirus caseload has topped 281.3 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 5.40 million and vaccinations to over 8.97 billion, according to Johns Hopkins University. In its latest update on Tuesday morning, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering...

New Delhi: The Congress and the Centre were at loggerheads Monday over Covid-19 vaccination targets. Senior leader of the opposition party P Chidambaram alleged confusion over the booster dose of the vaccines. However, Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan was quick at hitting back at the grand...

New Delhi: Five state elections scheduled early next year are unlikely to be postponed, sources said Monday. This declaration came days after a court in Uttar Pradesh urged the Election Commission to defer the votes by a couple of months due to the Omicron scare...

New Delhi: BJP MP Varun Gandhi is back at what he does best – criticise his own party. Varun Gandhi cited Monday a Centre’s note to criticise the decision of several states, including Uttar Pradesh, to impose night curfew to curb Covid-19. He said it...

Melbourne: On an extraordinary of cricket both on and off the field, England faced an uphill battle to save the third test against Australia and with it the Ashes. Before play even began Monday, Cricket Australia (CA) called for calm after a Covid-19 scare involving...

Sydney: Australia’s New South Wales state reported more than 6,000 new Covid-19 cases Monday. It also confirmed its first death from the Omicron variant of the coronavirus. The fatal case was identified as a man in his 80s who was infected by the Omicron at...

New Delhi: Children between the ages of 15 and 18 can register on the CoWIN app from January 1 for vaccination. This is according to information available from the government Monday morning. Dr RS Sharma, the chief of the CoWIN platform, was quoted as saying...

Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Health Minister Veena George Sunday said 19 more Omicron cases have been confirmed, taking the state's tally to 57. In a statement, she said that Ernakulam tops the list, with 11 new cases, while Thiruvananthapuram has six and Kannur and Thrissur districts have...

Wellington: New Zealand has detected seven fresh Omicron cases in international arrivals over two days, taking the country's total number of infections caused by the new Covid-19 variant to 45, the Ministry of Health said Sunday. New Zealand reported 136 cases of Covid-19 over two...

Bhopal: Eight foreign travellers in Indore, Madhya Pradesh have been confirmed to be infected with the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, in the past one-and-a-half month. Of these six persons have recovered from the infection. State Home Minister Narottam Mishra Sunday told the media that...