Coronavirus

New Delhi: India reported 3,993 daily Covid cases, the lowest spike in the last 662 days and a total of 108 deaths in a span of 24 hours, the Union health ministry said Tuesday morning. With the addition of new deaths, the toll has reached...

Chennai: Shruti Haasan, who is fast recovering from Covid, says that she is happy and grateful for all the love that's being showered with by her friends. Taking to Instagram, Shruti wrote, "Happy and grateful while I heal !! I'm a few cups of medicinal...

Kolkata: Extract from the bark of the neem tree, indigenous to India, may help treat and reduce the spread of coronavirus, a team of international researchers found. Neem, used for over thousands of years, is known for its pesticidal, insecticidal, and medicinal properties. The bark...

New Delhi: India’s GDP growth slowed to 5.4 per cent in October-December 2021 before the full fury of the third wave of coronavirus infections struck the country. Even though the economy faces fresh geopolitical risks, it still remains the fastest growing in the world. Asia’s...

London: People infected with the highly contagious Omicron variant of Covid are less likely to contract BA.2 subvariant, according to a study. Omicron, which has rapidly spread worldwide, carries numerous mutations in key regions and is associated with increased transmissibility and immune escape. The variant...

New York: The effectiveness of the Covid-19 vaccine may substantially decline after six months if booster shots are not taken, according to a new study published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine. The study indicated that vaccines were 94 per cent effective at preventing hospitalisation 50-100 days...

New Delhi: A team of international researchers, including from India, have found that Covid virus' contains tiny chunk of DNA that matched sequence patented by Moderna three years before the onset of pandemic. The findings, published in Frontiers in Virology, has raised fresh suspicion that...

New Delhi: The Covid-19 pandemic has rendered nearly 19 lakh children in India without a parent or caregiver -- the highest in the South-East Asia region, according to new figures published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health journal Friday. But, media reports claim that...

Sydney: The Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) Wednesday announced its decision to scrap mask mandate in schools despite a continued increase in new Covid-19 cases. From February 28, masks will no longer be required in high schools for students or staff in NSW,...

Geneva: Amid concerns of increasing presence of the BA.2 subtype of Omicron variant in some European and Asian countries, the World Health Organization Wednesday reinforced that the BA.2 sublineage should continue to be considered a variant of concern. The WHO's Technical Advisory Group on SARS-CoV-2 Virus...