Sydney, December 29 (AP): Coronavirus cases surged across Australia on Wednesday as an outbreak of the omicron variant exploded, prompting Prime Minister Scott Morrison to schedule an emergency national cabinet
Hyderabad, December 16 (IANS): The health authorities on Thursday sounded an alert in a residential area in Hyderabad where two cases of Omicron were detected among foreigners.
Teams of health workers along
NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 17 (IANS): SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, could have spilled from animals to people multiple times, according to a preliminary analysis of viral genomes sampled from people infe
SINGAPORE, SEPTEMBER 15 (IANS): An average of about 400,000 people are infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus (SARSr-CoVs) annually in South and Southeast Asia, according to a new s
NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 3 (IANS): Widespread wearing of surgical masks can limit the spread of coronavirus in communities, more than masks made of cloth, finds a large study.
Researchers from Yale University, US
New Delhi, September 3 (IANS): The Union government has said that no cases of 'MU' variant of coronavirus have been detected from over 51,000 samples analysed so far in India.
This new coronavirus va
London, September 2 (IANS) People who got fully vaccinated against the infectious coronavirus disease are nearly 50 per cent less likely to experience long Covid than unvaccinated people who get infected with t
New Delhi, April 2 (IANS) India has overtaken the US to become the country with second-highest daily Covid-19 cases in the world. Brazil leads the chart with 91,097 cases recorded in the last 24 hours.
India
New Delhi, March 25 (PTI) Its recovery from the depths of the lockdown-induced recession was swifter than expected but a surge in coronavirus cases is threatening to hurt the Indian economy which is expected to
New Delhi, February 27 (PTI) The daily rise in coronavirus infections was registered above 16,000 for the third consecutive day on Saturday, pushing India's case tally to 1,10,79,979, while the recoveries s
Geneva, February 13 (AP): The head of the World Health Organization has said that the drop in confirmed COVID-19 infections around the world was encouraging, but cautioned against relaxing restrictions that hav
Wuhan, January 23 (AP): A year ago, a notice sent to smartphones in Wuhan at 2 a.m. announced the world's first coronavirus lockdown that would last 76 days.
Early Saturday morning, residents in the cent
Beijing, January 17 (AP): The coronavirus was found on ice cream produced in eastern China, prompting a recall of cartons from the same batch, according to the government.
The Daqiaodao Food Co, Ltd in Tianj
New Delhi, January 3 (PTI): Hailing the approval given to two coronavirus vaccines as a 'decisive turning point' in the spirited fight against the pandemic, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday t
Dimapur, November 22 (MExN): Nagaland on November 22 reported 103 fresh COVID-19 postive cases, while there were 66 recoveries.
Out of 103 new cases, 78 were detected in Kohima, 24 in Dimapur and 1 in
New Delhi, November 19 (IANS): With 45,576 more coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours on Thursday, India witnessed a jump of over 50 per cent in such cases reported on Tuesday, pushing its cumulative tally to
MUMBAI, November 18 (Reuters): India recorded 38,617 new coronavirus infections, taking its tally to 8.9 million, health ministry data showed on Wednesday.
The south Asian nation's infections are th
Washington, November 3 (IANS): The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 46.8 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 1,205,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University.
As of Tu
New Delhi, November 2 (IANS): With a fresh spike of 45,230 coronavirus infections and 496 deaths in 24 hours, India's tally on Monday rose to 82,29,313 said the Union Ministry of Health and Family Wel
WASHINGTON, October 31 (Reuters): President Donald Trump is spending the closing days of his re-election campaign criticizing public officials and medical professionals who are trying to combat the coronav