COVID-19

Kolkata: Veteran Bengali actor Soumitra Chatterjee was shifted to intensive care of a private hospital here after his COVID-19 symptoms worsened on Friday night, the PTI reported. The 85-year-old actor and Dada Saheb Phalke winner was…

Besides ruining economies and livelihoods across the world, the COVID-19 pandemic has taken a heavy toll on people’s physical and mental health. Stress was never in short supply, but this global pandemic has added to the youth as well as…

New Delhi: AYUSH ministry on Tuesday dismissed claims that prolonged consumption of ‘kadha’, recommended as a preventive health measure for boosting immunity damages the liver, Hindustan Times (HT) reported quoting PTI. The ministry said…

New Delhi: The Indian Railways has decided to restore earlier system of preparation of second reservation charts from October 10. As per the practice before the COVID-19 restrictions were imposed, the first reservation chart was prepared…

New Delhi: Covaxin, India's first indigenous COVID vaccine, will use adjuvant Alhydroxiquim-II to increase immune response, informed Bharat Biotech on Monday. ViroVax LLC, a Kansas based company, has licensed their adjuvant for the use of…

New Delhi: India has crossed a landmark milestone with active cases remaining below the 10-lakh mark for two straight weeks, the Health and Family Welfare Ministry said on Monday. This is the first time since the start of the pandemic that…

New Delhi: With an overnight surge of 74,442 COVID-19 cases, India’s affected tally raced past the 66-lakh mark to stand at 66,23,816 on Monday. India's Covid-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7, 30 lakh on August 23 and 40…

New Delhi: The Indian Council Of Medical Research (ICMR) has technically validated for satisfactory performance, an RT-PCR kit developed by Reliance Life Sciences. It promises diagnosis of COVID-19 infection in about 2 hours, company…

New Delhi: With an overnight surge of 81,484 COVID-19 cases, India’s affected tally inched closer to the 64-lakh mark to stand at 63,94,068 on Friday. Also, 1,095 people across the country succumbed to the infection in the last 24 hours,…

Ernakulam: In the wake of rising COVID-19 cases, the Kerala government will impose Section 144 of the CrPC across the state for a month from Saturday. From reporting zero fresh cases for multiple days in recent months, the state now has…