COVID19

New Delhi: Popular medical journal The Lancet has blamed the Indian government of putting a “too positive spin” on the COVID-19 situation in India. The editorial raised concerns over the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) “straying…

Mumbai: Local trains, the lifeline of Mumbai, have partially opened for essential workers. A video of an overcrowded train at Borivali station, recorded on September 23 at 5.22 pm, has gone viral on social media with Twitterati slamming…

Close on the heels of UAE, Saudi Arabia on Wednesday suspended travel to and from India, Brazil and Argentina due to the increasing coronavirus cases, reported India Today. It has also barred people who have travelled to any of these…

Kolkata: Durga puja is a month away but preparations have already begun although differently. Although the annual extravaganza in West Bengal will be at a much lower scale, the organisers are having to work like every year. This time, they…

New Delhi: Hospitals continue to bear the burden of the COVID-19 surge with people scrambling for beds. According to a study, 78 per cent had to use connections and clout to get an ICU bed. Amid complaints that people were unable to find…

New Delhi: A sero survey carried by the Delhi government showed that 79 of 257 people, who had coronavirus, did not have antibodies in them after a few months. However, there is no need to panic as memory cells will trigger an immune…

New Delhi: Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan on Monday defended the country's handling of the COVID-19 situation. Speaking in the Lok Sabha on the first day of Monsoon Session, he pointed out that India has one of the lowest death…

New Delhi: As many as 25 members of Parliament have been learnt to have tested positive for COVID-19 on Day 1 of Parliament’s monsoon session on Monday. Secretariat officials told Hindustan Times that junior railways minister Suresh…

New Delhi: The 18-day monsoon session of Parliament, which began today, is different this time. All parliamentarians have been given COVID-19 kits to protect them from the pandemic, reported NDTV. The kits have been provided by the Defence…

New Delhi: As nearly a lakh cases were detected in a day, the Union Health Ministry & ICMR have jointly asked all states and union territories to mandatorily carry retests of all symptomatic negative cases of Rapid Antigen Tests through…