COVID-19

Agartala: Tripura’s chief nodal officer said that at least 90 per cent of samples tested for genome sequencing found to be containing a highly transmissible Delta Plus variant. Tripura, the first northeastern state to report the new…

Lucknow: Two cases of the highly transmissible Kappa variant of COVID-19 were detected in Uttar Pradesh after genome sequencing samples returned positive at King George Medical College here, according to an official statement released on…

New Delhi: India’s vaccination against COVID-19 increased by 67 per cent as the country administered 6.77 crore doses in the 13 days from June 21 to July 3. Since India returned to COVID vaccines’ centralised procurement and distribution,…

New Delhi: A study by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi, has suggested that more people under 50 years of age lost their lives to COVID-19 infection than any other age group. AIIMS Delhi Director Dr Randeep…

New Delhi: After the Delta variant of coronavirus ravaged India in the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic, many fear that Delta Plus will trigger the third wave in our country. The Central government on Monday sought to allay apprehension by…

New Delhi: The single-day COVID-19 count fell to an 81-day low with 58,570 testing positive for the infection on Saturday. This is the lowest tally since March 30. The coronavirus casualty rate also declined steadily. The country recorded…

New Delhi: India is certain to face the “inevitable” third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in the next six to eight weeks, AIIMS chief Dr Randeep Guleria said in view of unlocking in various states after weeks of strict restrictions. “As we…

New Delhi: Serum Institute of India (SII) is expected to begin clinical trials of Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine ‘Covovax’ for children this July, according to media reports. SII is also planning to introduce Covovax in India by September.…

Indore: In possibly the first such case reported in the country, a COVID-19 survivor in this Madhya Pradesh city has been infected with ‘green fungus’. According to reports, this is the newest infection to join the earlier reported cases…

New Delhi: The COVID-19 situation in the country following the second wave is improving with the virus transmission being “very low right now”, the Central government said on Tuesday. The government, however, sounded caution by saying that…