Union house minister Amit Shah evaluates Covid-19 positive
NEW DELHI: Union home minister AmitShah on Sunday said he has tested positive for coronavirus and is getting admitted to…
Meteoric increase in COVID-19 cases in AP in less than a fortnight
Andhra Pradesh has witnessed a meteoric rise in the numbers related to COVID-19 in less than a fortnight as the…
Coronavirus live updates: With 738 brand-new cases, Jharkhand’s Covid-19 tally over 12,000
Read: US counts 61,262 Covid-19 cases in 24 hours: Johns HopkinsThe United States counted 61,262 new coronavirus cases in the…
Victoria records 95 coronavirus deaths in July as Australia’s COVID-19 deaths reach 201
More than 200 people have died of coronavirus in Australia as the death toll continues to accelerate. Key points:Victoria experienced…
Hong Kong delays elections by a year pointing out COVID-19
Carrie Lam | Photo Credit: The poll would have been Hong Kong’s first official vote since Beijing imposed a new…
Junior priest at Ram temple tests favorable for COVID-19
A devotee pays respects to a mural depicting paintings of deities in Ayodhya on July 30, 2020 | Photo Credit:…
Policymakers deliberating to identify groups of people who will receive Covid-19 vaccine first
NEW DELHI: Policymakers are actively holding deliberations to identify groups of people who will first receive the Covid-19 vaccine when…
‘Good data so far’: UK firm on leading Covid vaccine
Britain's AstraZeneca said on Thursday that good data was coming in so far on its vaccine for Covid-19, already in…
Ram temple occasion: Ayodhya seer, 14 cops test positive for Covid-19
Pradeep Das was also present during UP CM Yogi Adityanath's visit to Ayodhya on July 25LUCKNOW: A seer in the…
India’s gold demand in April-June plunges 70%on COVID-19 interruptions
Gold demand in India plunged 70 per cent during the April-June quarter to 63.7 tonnes compared with the same period…
Classes on hold, learning continues as engineering colleges fight Covid
At the height of the Covid crisis in Italy, an engineering startup saved many lives by 3D-printing respirator valves. The…
Coronavirus | Sero-surveys show COVID-19 peak far away, say experts
Half the people, or 57%, tested in the slums in Mumbai had been exposed to and developed antibodies against the…
India reports over 1 million COVID-19 healings
India on Wednesday evening reported over 1 million recoveries from COVID-19. At the time of publishing, the total recoveries stood…
Trump defends use of hydroxychloroquine, says it works in early stages of Covid-19 infection
US President Donald Trump (File photo: Reuters)WAHINGTON: US President Donald Trump has again defended the use of hydroxychloroquine to ward…
DBT readies five sites for final phase of human trials of Oxford Covid vaccine: Secretary
Representative photo: ReutersNEW DELHI: Five sites across the country are ready for the third and final phase of human trials…
India in much better position in fighting COVID-19, states Modi
India was in a much better position than other countries in the fight against COVID-19 as a result of ‘right…
Mamata Banerjee thanks PM Modi for cooperation in tackling Covid crisis
Mamata Banerjee(File photo)KOLKATA: Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his cooperation in tackling the…
Fulfill the nurses who have set aside their households and lives to look after patients during the COVID-19 pandemic
As she steps into Ward 206 of Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital (RGGGH) in Chennai, V. Murugeswari stops to utter…
Coronavirus: The dilemma of Covid-19’s second wave
NEW YORK: Shuttering businesses, grounding airlines and ordering people to stay home was hard enough the first time. The thought…
Sri Lanka has totally curbed neighborhood spread of coronavirus: Head of COVID-19 job force
Chief of staff of Sri Lankan army Shavendra Silva. File | Photo Credit: REUTERS "We haven’t found a single case…
Coronavirus in Chennai: Raj Bhavan becomes Covid-19 hotspot
Raj BhavanCHENNAI: Raj Bhavan has become a hot spot for Covid-19 in Chennai with 84 people, including security and fire…
Subdued Trump finally promotes mask and mitigation measures as Covid-19 ravages America
WASHINGTON: A chastened US President Donald Trump finally began vigorously promoting mitigation measures against coronavirus, including mask-wearing and social distancing,…
Whatever You Required to Learn About the Oxford Covid-19 Vaccine
The coronavirus pandemic has not exactly yielded much in the way of good news. But now a trial into an…
Donald Trump willing to work with China on Covid-19 vaccine for US
US President Donald TrumpWASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump expressed a willingness on Tuesday to work with China or other countries…
‘Living nightmare’: Sharp rise in violence against women and children in Asia during COVID-19 lockdowns
Lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic have led to a devastating rise in violence against women and children in Asia, according…
Delhi’s sero-prevalence study finds 23.48 per cent people affected by Covid-19
NEW DELHI: Delhi's sero-prevalence study has found that 23.48 per cent of the people have been affected by Covid-19 in…
AIIMS to begin phase-1 screening of indigenous COVID-19 vaccine
All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on Monday, announced that it will start screening volunteers for phase-1 testing of…
How Will Covid Be Remembered?
Ruminating on why the 1918 flu pandemic wasn’t better remembered, the African historian Terence Ranger concluded in the early 2000s…
Coronavirus India lockdown Day 118 live updates | Karnataka’s COVID-19 recovery rate plummets to 36.5%
India saw a record single-day jump of 40,425 COVID-19 cases, pushing its tally past the 11-lakh mark on Monday, while…
Coronavirus | IIT, AIIMS see winter rise in COVID-19 cases
Fall in temperature with seasonal progression towards winter will environmentally favour COVID-19 transmission in India, says a collaborative study conducted…
Few checks in place, ambulances fleece desperate Covid patients
NEW DELHI: There have been complaints of ambulances charging Covid patients as much as a flight to Europe to cover…
PM Modi speaks to seven CMs on floods, Covid-19 situation
Prime Minister Narendra Modi (File photo)NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday spoke to the chief ministers of seven…
Seven Indian pharma players race to develop Covid-19 vaccine
NEW DELHI: At least seven Indian pharma companies are working to develop a vaccine against coronavirus as they join global…
‘You men made us feel comfortable’: Chairvirus of the virus neighborhood’s COVID-19 Task Force
I’m thrilled to present to you my greatest journalistic coup yet: the world’s first interview with SARS-CoV-2-XUV-700. This is not…
Pune-based company plans human trials of Covid vaccine in October
MUMBAI: There's a new vaccine technology platform in the works in India. Pune-based biotech firm Gennova Biopharmaceuticals, which recently secured…
Coronavirus | Used PPEs wash up in Assam floods, raise concern over COVID-19 spread
Volunteers help fight coronavirus, floods in Assam, July 18, 2020 | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Medical waste has raised concerns…
Colleges Prepare to Test Thousands of Students for Covid-19
In April, just a few weeks after the spring semester pivoted unceremoniously to digital, Catherine Klapperich, a biomedical engineering professor…
England’s Jofra Archer available for third Test despite COVID-19 breach
Jofra Archer. (AFP Photo)MANCHESTER: England fast bowler Jofra Archer will be available to play in next week's series finale against…
Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Pune emerge as new urban Covid hotspots
NEW DELHI: Among India’s nine largest urban centres (with 5 million plus population), it is now Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Pune…
Americans turn on each other as tensions rise over Covid-19 measures
WASHINGTON: Americans are turning on each other over wearing (or not) of masks, social distancing, and closures, as Covid-19 cases…
Turning point of a million: On India’s COVID-19 numbers
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Coronavirus: India becomes third country to cross 1-million Covid-19 cases
NEW DELHI: India on Friday became the third country in the world to record more than one million coronavirus cases,…
Universities come to grips with changing admissions process in the time of COVID-19
At St. John’s College in Agra, coronavirus (COVID-19) has forced a 170-year old institution to change its admissions process. Instead…
MP, Bihar, T’gana economy to be hit most by Covid: Lancet
HYDERABAD: Madhya Pradesh is most vulnerable to the long-term effects of Covid-19 pandemic, followed by Bihar and Telangana, says a…
Varavara Rao checks favorable for COVID-19
P. Varavara Rao, 81, who was admitted to the State-run JJ Hospital, has tested positive for COVID-19.“He is not showing…
India’s Zydus starts human trials for potential Covid-19 vaccine
India records 30,000+ cases in a day, Covid toll goes past 24kThe Covid-19 pandemic worsened in the country
Centre gathers data to map COVID-19 after-effects
Even as the fight against the pandemic continues, data is now being collected from across India on the medical complications…
India records 30,000+ cases in a day, Covid toll goes past 24k
NEW DELHI: The Covid-19 pandemic worsened in the country as fresh cases on Tuesday zoomed past the 30,000 mark for…
India fast-tracking processes to develop Covid-19 vaccine: ICMR
NEW DELHI: India is among many other countries like Russia, China, US and UK fast-tracking processes to develop a vaccine…
Inside the Milan Hotel That Housed Covid-19 Patients
Hotel Michelangelo is a fine place to stay. Located in central Milan, it boasts four stars and close proximity to…