COVID-19

New Delhi: A total of 38 people have tested positive for the new UK COVID-19 strain in India so far, according to an update from the Union Health Ministry on Monday. The break-up is -- 8 samples at National Centre for Disease Control…

Chennai: After ITC Chola, 20 staff members at Chennai’s Leela Palace, have tested positive for COVID-19. Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) officials said they have instructed the luxury hotels to postpone the scheduled events. A total of…

Pune: India will not allow the Oxford University-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine’s export for several months, according to Serum Institute of India (SII) CEO Adar Poonawalla. SII has been contracted to manufacture 1 billion doses of the…

New Delhi: The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) said that India has successfully cultured the new COVID-19 strain that originated in the United Kingdom. The ICMR claimed via a tweet that no country is yet to report successful…

New Delhi: As India prepares for the COVID-19 vaccine roll-out, the Union Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (MoHFW) on Saturday organised a massive nationwide exercise whereby an end-to-end mock drill on vaccine administration was…

New Delhi: A day ahead of the scheduled dry run for vaccination in all the states, a government-appointed panel of experts on Friday cleared the Oxford COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by the Serum Institute of India (SII). The panel will now…

New Delhi: Four more cases of the highly contagious mutant strain of the coronavirus were detected in the country on Friday, the Union Health Ministry has informed. Of the four new cases, three were found in a Bengaluru lab, while one was…

New Delhi: Six cases with the mutant strain of coronavirus, which was first reported in the United Kingdom, have been detected in India, the government said on Tuesday. All the six patients recently returned from the UK. According to a…

New Delhi/ Hyderabad: A two-day dry run of COVID-19 vaccine programme starts in four states — Andhra Pradesh, Punjab, Gujarat and Assam — on Monday. With focus on managing possible adverse events following immunisation, the dry runs…

New Delhi: The country reported 18,732 new cases of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, the Union Health Ministry informed on Sunday. This daily number of COVID-19 cases is the lowest since July 1, when 18,653 cases were recorded. Meanwhile,…