Tag: Covid19

New Delhi/Moscow: More than 50 million doses of Sputnik V vaccine will be produced in India in a month over the summer in partnership with five Indian companies, Kirill Dmitriev,…

New Delhi: The Covid-19 pandemic has cast its shadow over the 74th Independence Day celebrations across the country. Keeping in mind the required precautions, this year many crucial changes have also been made at the venue at Red Fort in Delhi for Saturday’s event. The event will be limited to the presentation of the Guard […]

Rourkela: COVID-19 continues to spread in Rourkela Special Jail with 54 more inmates testing positive for the virus on Friday. Such unabated rise in cases has raised serious concerns among the authorities. Till now 112 inmates of the jail have tested positive, informed Jail Superintendent, Birendranath Mahalik. All the patients have reportedly been shifted to […]

Moscow: A top respiratory doctor quit the Russian health ministry’s ethics council after the country decided to go ahead with the registration of a Covid-19 vaccine even before conducting a crucial Phase 3 trial, MailOnline reported. It appears that Professor Alexander Chuchalin wanted to block the registration of the vaccine on “safety” grounds, before quitting […]

Beijing: New research has added to the growing body of evidence that asymptomatic patients suffering from Covid-19 are less likely to infect close contacts compared to severe cases. According to the study, published in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine, the risk for transmission of SARS-CoV-2 to close contacts of infected persons has not been […]

New Delhi: Health Ministry’s Joint Secretary Lav Agarwal, who was the face of the Covid-19 press briefing at the start of the pandemic’s outbreak, has tested positive for the viral disease, an official said on Friday. A top-ranking official from National Centre for Disease Control confirmed that Agarwal, 48, has tested positive. “The current condition […]

New Delhi: “We have learnt some tough lessons in the year 2020,” said President Ram Nath Kovind in his address to the nation on the eve of Independence day listing 4 of them that the year has taught. He said that “the invisible virus” has demolished the illusion that human beings are the masters of […]

Bhubaneswar: In view of the COVID-19 spike across the State, the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Tuesday released the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for observing the month of Ramzan in…

Mumbai: From Amitabh Bachchan to Akshay Kumar, from Kareena Kapoor Khan to Taapsee Pannu, and from Mahesh Babu to Varun Dhawan and Abhishek Bachchan, a gamut of film celebrities took to social media to wish India on the occasion of Independence Day. Big B saluted frontline Covid workers who are fighting day and night to […]

Bhubaneswar: Delay in rationalisation of Odisha school syllabus for the new academic session that has been hit by COVID pandemic this year, has raised serious questions in the minds of educationists. The delay, notwithstanding the declaration of course curriculum by national education boards, has also triggered skepticism among students. While CBSE has shortened the school […]

Moscow: The third stage of the research on the world’s first registered vaccine against the novel coronavirus, called Sputnik V, may begin in 7-10 days, a report has said. According to the Tass news agency, several tens of thousands of people are expected to take part in this research of the vaccine created by the […]

Gurugram: Former Indian cricketer and UP Cabinet Minister Chetan Chauhan passed away today on Sunday. He was 73 and had tested positive for Covid-19 in July. The former India opener was put on ventilator support at the Medanta hospital after a multi-organ failure. Former Indian cricketer & UP Cabinet Minister Chetan Chauhan passes away. He […]

New Delhi: Indian boxer Sarita Devi and her husband Thoiba Singh have tested positive for coronavirus. In an interview with IANS, Sarita’s husband Thoiba said, “Sarita and me were tested Covid positive today. We will go to the COVID centre now, since home quarantine is not allowed here. Till this very moment there are no […]

London: People infected with the B117 variant of the coronavirus did not experience more severe illness and were not more likely to die, according to a new study published in…

London: Mild cases of Covid-19 can trigger robust memory T cell responses — an essential part of the immune system, even in the absence of detectable virus-specific antibody responses, say researchers. The study, published in the journal Cell, revealed that memory T cell responses generated by natural exposure to or infection with SARS-CoV-2, the virus […]