Coronavirus

Mumbai: It was a grand affair when filmmaker Karan Johar turned 50 last month. The celebration saw the who's who of Bollywood such as Shah Rukh Khan, Kareena Kapoor Khan and Hrithik Roshan, among many others, attending his big party. However, a media report by Bollywood...

Washington: Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech have said that preliminary clinical data showed their three-dose Covid-19 vaccine regimen was 80 per cent effective for children aged between 6 months to 5-years-old at preventing illness during the Omicron wave. The vaccine was found to elicit...

New Delhi: The Central government Friday wrote a letter to the states and union territories (UTs) for allowing Covid-19 vaccine precaution doses anytime after three months from the second dose as required by the destination country. "The precaution doses can be administered to such beneficiaries...

New Delhi: The Union government is set to relax the norms for Covid vaccine precaution dose, allowing those going overseas to get the jab before the stipulated nine-month waiting period as required by the destination country, sources said Wednesday. An official announcement, however, is yet...

Toronto: Effective mask use can drastically slow the spread of Covid-19. Use of masks can reduce the magnitude of the pandemic peak by flattening the curve, and reduce the prevalence of severe cases, according to a study. Researchers from McMaster University in Canada developed a...

Rayagada: Sixty-four students living in two hostels in Odisha's Rayagada district were found to be COVID-positive as the state reported 71 new cases Sunday, officials said. The state has been recording around cases a day for the last one month, they said. With this, the...

United Nations/Geneva: The WHO Thursday said that 1.49 crore people were killed either by COVID-19 directly or due to the pandemic's impact on health systems and society, with the global health agency estimating that India had 47 lakh fatalities. In New Delhi, India strongly objected...

New Delhi: A day after its Covid shot ‘Covovax’ was included on the CoWIN portal for inoculation of children aged 12-17 years at private vaccination centres, the Serum Institute of India (SII) reduced Tuesday the price of each dose of the vaccine from Rs 900...

New Delhi: One confirmed case of the XE Covid variant has been detected in India, according to the latest bulletin of the Indian SARS-CoV2 Genomics Sequencing Consortium (INSACOG). However, the location of this variant was not identified in the bulletin for April 25 released Tuesday....

New Delhi: The National Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (NTAGI) will discuss Tuesday whether to allow early administration of the precaution dose of Covid-19 vaccine to those travelling abroad for education, employment, sporting events and business commitments. The advisory panel is also likely to deliberate...