Coronavirus

New Delhi: India Sunday registered a marginal decline in daily Covid caseload and recorded 36,083 fresh cases and 493 deaths in the last 24 hours, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said. On Saturday also new cases showed a marginal dip as India recorded...

Washington: The global coronavirus caseload has topped 20.66 crore, while the deaths have surged to more than 43.5 lakh and vaccinations soared to over 4.64 billion, according to the Johns Hopkins University. In its latest update on Sunday morning, the University's Center for Systems Science...

New Delhi: The first nasal vaccine against Covid-19 has been developed by Bharat Biotech. It has received regulator's nod for conducting phase 2 and 3 clinical trials, the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) said Friday. The        phase 1 clinical trial of the Bharat Biotech nasal vaccine...

New York: Drugmakers Pfizer, BioNTech and Moderna are expected to reap billions of dollars from Covid-19 booster shots in a market. This development could rival the $6 billion in annual sales for flu vaccines for years to come, analysts and healthcare investors have said. For...

Thiruvananthapuram: Covid continues to rage in Kerala as Friday, the state saw another day of over 20,000 new cases. A statement issued here by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said 20,452 new cases was registered after 1,42,501 samples were send for testing in the past 24...

New Delhi: Cricketer Krunal Pandya had tested positive for Covid-19 during India’s white ball tour of Sri Lanka last month. It has raised questions about BCCI’s medical officer on tour as he delayed the RT-PCR test by a day. After Krunal Pandya tested positive, eight...

Pune:  Serum Institute of India (SII) chairman Dr Cyrus Poonawalla said Friday he was not in favour of administering two different coronavirus vaccines for better efficacy. It had been said earlier by a group of researchers that a cocktail of coronavirus vaccines have yielded better...

Washington: Chinese researchers at the World Health Organization-led team probing the origins of the coronavirus pandemic pushed against the lab-leak theory, said a WHO scientist, who led the group, in a Danish documentary. In the documentary, titled "The Virus Mystery", Peter Ben Embarek said the...

New Delhi: Drug maker Wockhardt said Friday it has inked a pact with the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF). This agreement will enable Wockhardt to produce and supply Covid-19 vaccines – Sputnik V and Sputnik Light.  The agreement has been inked under the aegis of...

Washington: Chinese researchers at the World Health Organization-led team probing the origins of the coronavirus pandemic pushed against the lab-leak theory, said a WHO scientist, who led the group, in a Danish documentary. In the documentary, titled "The Virus Mystery", Peter Ben Embarek said the...