COVID-19

New Delhi: The COVID-19 situation in India is improving as the reproduction rate of infection in India has dropped to 0.89. In other words, 100 coronavirus-infected patients are now spreading...

The second wave of COVID-19 pandemic had caught the Union government napping, but the Centre is fully prepared to tackle a possible third wave. Reassuring the country, Union minister for...

In a worrying development, several patients who had fully recovered from COVID-19 are contracting tuberculosis (TB). About 25 such cases have been reported in Karnataka so far. The concerned state...

New Delhi: The Union government has been granted a month’s extension for framing ex-gratia compensation for COVID-19 deaths. The Supreme Court, however, directed the government to inform within two weeks...

In a worrying development for the Union Health ministry, 10 new cases of Delta Plus variant of coronavirus have been detected. It was the Maharashtra health department which reported all...

New Delhi: There’s good news for Indian students and professionals flying to the UK for studies or work. The cost of a COVID-19 test which they have to mandatorily take...

COVID-19 cases have been rising alarmingly in Kerala, which continues to be the main cause of concern in India. As many as 23,500 fresh coronavirus cases were reported in the...

Scenes of stranded vehicles in long serpentine queues headed for Shimla and other tourist spots went viral a few weeks ago after COVID-19 restrictions were relaxed. The state government had...

India could get its first indigenously-developed drug to cure mild and moderately-infected COVID-19 patients by the end of the year. iSera Biological, a little-known biosciences company near Maharashtra’s Kolhapur, is...

New Delhi: A total of 3,570 Indian citizens have died abroad so far due to COVID-19, spread over 70 countries. About one-third of those fatalities have been reported from Saudi...