Coronavirus

New Delhi: With a declining case trajectory in the city, schools in the national capital reopened with strict anti-Covid measures in place after months. The Delhi government has allowed opening of schools with preventive Covid measures. The schools in the state will reopen for classes...

New York: Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) -- approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat or prevent malaria as well as some auto-immune conditions -- does not help in recovery of patients hospitalised due to Covid-19, but may cause harm, researchers have warned. In...

New Delhi: Over 25 per cent of healthcare workers in Delhi were found Covid infected despite getting fully vaccinated, a recent study said. The study, jointly conducted by the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB) and Max Hospitals in Delhi-NCR, found that vaccination breakthroughs...

New Delhi: India’s economic growth surged to 20.1 per cent in the April-June quarter of this fiscal. This growth was helped by a low base of the year-ago period. The growth took place despite the devastating second wave of Covid-19. The gross domestic product (GDP)...

Thiruvananthapuram: A Kerala nurse created a record, when in a marathon effort August 15, she administered Covid vaccines to 893 people in 7.5 hours, leading to state Health Minister Veena George coming personally to appreciate her work. Pushapalatha works as a junior public health nurse...

New York: Prior exposure to SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing Covid-19, neither guarantees a high level of antibodies nor immunity to re-infection as thought earlier, finds a study emphasising the need to get vaccinated against the deadly infectious disease. The study, led by researchers from the...

Bhadrak: Even as daily cases of Covid-19 in Bhadrak district are showing a downward trend, the number of children infected by the virus is on the rise. As per the information shared by the district Health department, a total of 136 persons tested positive in...

New Delhi: A new variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus which cause Covid-19, has been detected in South Africa and a few other countries. This new variant could be more transmissible and evade protection provided by vaccines, according to a recent study. Scientists from the National...

Washington: US drug maker Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine is likely to get authorisation for providing vaccines to children aged between 5 to 12 by October, according to Scott Gottlieb, former head of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Currently of the three Covid-19 vaccines used in...

Johannesburg: South Africa has identified a potential variant of interest (VOI) of Covid-19 that is assigned to the PANGO lineage C.1.2. C.1.2 was first identified in May 2021 during the third wave of Covid in the country, said researchers from the country's National Institute for...