Tag: Coronavirus

Cuttack: The Odisha government on Thursday announced that Corona Warriors including doctors and other frontline health workers will get COVID-19 vaccine free of cost in the State. Informing this development, the State Health and Family Welfare Minister Naba Das said that the vaccination against coronavirus is likely to begin from January 2021. While talking to […]

New Delhi: With 22,890 new coronavirus infections and 338 deaths in the past 24 hours, India’s COVID-19 caseload rose to 99.79 lakh on Friday, while the death toll reached 1,44,789, Union Health Ministry’s data updated on Friday. In the past 11 months, 95,20,827 people have recovered, of whom 31,087 recovered in the last 24 hours, […]

Bhubaneswar: As many as 358 people were tested positive for Covid-19 while four patients succumbed to the virus in Odisha in the last 24 hours pushing the infection tally to 3,25,505 and death toll to 1,829 in the State on Friday. The new cases were detected from 27 districts of the State. A total of […]

Washington: The total number of global coronavirus cases has crossed 75.5 million, while the death toll have surged to more than 1.67 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University. In its latest update on Saturday, the University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the current global Covid-19 caseload stood at 75,588,781 while […]

New Delhi: India on Saturday recorded 25,152 new coronavirus cases and 347 deaths, taking the total number of infected people since January past the one crore-mark, as per the data revealed by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare today morning. The country crossed the grim milestone almost eleven months after the first case of […]

Madrid: Spain will begin a vaccination programme against the novel coronavirus from December 27 onwards, confirmed the country’s Health Minister Salvador Illa on Friday. The programme will first administer the BioNTech Pfizer vaccine, which will begin arriving in the country on December 26, reports Xinhua news agency. “If Europe has agreed that vaccination begins in […]

Washington: US President-elect Joe Biden and wife Jill will be given vaccination against novel coronavirus publicly on Monday. The announcement was made on Friday night by Jen Psaki, the Biden administration’s White House Press Secretary, The Hill news website reported. According to the team, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will receive her vaccine next week. The […]

Washington: The novel coronavirus pandemic has brought countries around the world to a standstill. Here are the latest updates on the COVID-19 crisis from around the globe on Sunday. The overall number of global coronavirus cases has surpassed the 76 million mark, while the deaths have surged to more than 1.68 million, according to the […]

New Delhi: India’s overall tally increased to 1,00,31,223 with 26,624 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, while the total number of people who have recuperated from the disease crossed 95.80 lakh pushing the national recovery rate to 95.51 per cent, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said on Sunday. The death toll […]

Washington: The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 76.7 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 1.69 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University. In its latest update on Monday morning, the University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the current global caseload and death toll stood at […]

Jakarta: In October, Indonesian diplomats and Muslim clerics stepped off a plane in China. While the diplomats were there to finalise deals to ensure millions of doses reached Indonesian citizens, the clerics had a much different concern: Whether the COVID-19 vaccine was permissible for use under Islamic law. As companies race to develop a COVID-19 […]

New Delhi: With 24,337 new infections India’s COVID-19 caseload rose to 1,00,55,560, while the number of people who have recuperated from the disease crossed 96 lakh, according to Union health ministry data updated on Monday. The death toll increased to 1,45,810 with 333 new fatalities, the data updated at 8 am showed. The number of […]