Govt's expert panel clears Oxford COVID-19 vaccine for India
Jan 02, 2021, at 03:56 am
New Delhi/IBNS: A government-appointed panel of experts on Friday cleared the Oxford COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by the Serum Institute of India, which will be sent for approval to the regulator Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI).
Dry run for Covid vaccination in UP from Saturday
Jan 02, 2021, at 01:14 am
Lucknow/UNI: The Uttar Pradesh government will test its preparedness for Covid 19 vaccination in the state from Saturday.
Jan 01, 2021, at 11:20 pm
New Delhi: Dr. Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare today chaired a high-level meeting to review preparedness at session sites across the country for COVID-19 vaccination trial run on Saturday.
Karnataka: 33 UK returnees test Covid positive
Jan 01, 2021, at 10:43 pm
Bengaluru/UNI: Karnataka Health and Medical Education Minister K Sudhakar on Friday said that as many as 33 passengers were tested positive for Covid so far, in all, 38 have tested positive for coronavirus, including five primary contacts.
Govt's expert panel to meet over Covid-19 vaccine approval today
Jan 01, 2021, at 04:30 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: An expert panel, appointed by the central government, will on Friday meet over the approval for an emergency use of three Covid-19 vaccines, including an indigenous one.
India records 20,036 new COVID-19 cases, 256 deaths in past 24 hours
Jan 01, 2021, at 03:17 pm
New Delhi: Maintaining the steady decline in the COVID-19 cases, India recorded 20,036 new cases in the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Health data revealed on Friday.
Jan 01, 2021, at 02:29 pm
Geneva:The World Health Organization (WHO) today listed the Comirnaty COVID-19 mRNA vaccine for emergency use, making the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine the first to receive emergency validation from WHO since the outbreak began a year ago.
Covid-19 vaccine dry run to be held in Indian states on Jan 2, 2021: Govt
Dec 31, 2020, at 11:48 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: Giving a ray of hope to 1.3 billion people, the central government on Thursday said the dry run of Covid-19 vaccine will be held in all states on Jan 2, 2021, media reports said.
Covid vaccine approval likely soon : DCGI
Dec 31, 2020, at 11:29 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: The coronavirus vaccines awaiting approval can be cleared soon, India's drug control authority said Thursday.
India reports 5 new UK Coronavirus strain, tally increases to 25
Dec 31, 2020, at 06:23 pm
New Delhi/UNI/IBNS: With five more people detected with the new Coronavirus strain, which was first found in Britain, the total number of such cases in India rose to 25, the Union Health Ministry update said on Thursday.
India adds over 21,000 Covid-19 cases, 299 deaths in 24 hours
Dec 31, 2020, at 04:19 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: Amid the fear over UK Coronavirus strain, India on Thursday added more than 21,000 Covid-19 cases from across 36 states and union territories.
Jammu and Kashmir: 15 lakh register for free health scheme SEHAT
Dec 31, 2020, at 05:15 am
Srinagar: After being launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, SEHAT – universal health coverage for all residents of Jammu and Kashmir – is getting good response with over 15 lakh people applying to get enrolled in the free health insurance scheme.
US nurse tests positive for Covid-19 a week after receiving Pfizer vaccine: Report
Dec 31, 2020, at 05:13 am
California/IBNS: A 45-year-old nurse from United States' California tested positive for Covid-19 more than a week after receiving Pfizer Inc's coronavirus vaccine, media reports said on Wednesday.
UK virus strain reaches India: 14 more people test positive, 20 cases recorded so far
Dec 30, 2020, at 10:26 pm
New Delhi: The Indian government on Wednesday said 20 COVID-19 positive people have been found to be infected by the new strain of the virus.
UAE registers first cases of coronavirus variant linked to UK: Gov’t Spokesman
Dec 30, 2020, at 10:02 pm
Doha/Sputnik: The United Arab Emirates has confirmed the first cases of coronavirus variant linked to the United Kingdom on its soil, Omar al-Hammadi, a spokesman of the UAE government, said on Tuesday.
UK approves Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID vaccine
Dec 30, 2020, at 09:51 pm
London/UNI: The United Kingdom on Wednesday approved a coronavirus vaccine developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca, becoming the first country in the world to authorize the vaccine against the highly contagious virus.
West Bengal on high alert after first case of new UK coronavirus strain reported in Kolkata
Dec 30, 2020, at 07:25 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: The West Bengal health department has put its machineries on high alert after the first case of the new UK strain of Coronavirus, which is reportedly 70 per cent more contagious than the existing one, was confirmed in Kolkata, sources said.
Colorado confirms first known US case of COVID-19 variant detected in UK : Governor
Dec 30, 2020, at 03:12 pm
Washington/Sputnik: Colorado has detected the first known US case of the mutated novel coronavirus (COVD-19) variant originally found in the United Kingdom, Governor Jared Polis said in a statement.
India registers 20,550 new COVID-19 cases in past 24 hours, 286 deaths
Dec 30, 2020, at 03:06 pm
New Delhi: India registered 20,550 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, as per Ministry of Health data released on Wednesday.
Dec 30, 2020, at 02:57 pm
London: The new coronavirus straint does not appear to cause severe disease or mortality, according to the British Public Health England website.
Dec 30, 2020, at 03:50 am
New Delhi/IBNS: India will be conducting genome sequencing on all international passengers who were symptomatic and tested positive for coronavirus in the last 14 days from Dec 9 to 22, the Centre said after six people tested positive for the UK mutant strain of the virus on Tuesday.
New coronavirus mutant strain case detected in Andhra Pradesh
Dec 30, 2020, at 01:25 am
Vijayawada/UNI: The new coronavirus mutant strain case was detected in Andhra Pradesh's Rajamahendravaram.
Dec 29, 2020, at 11:46 pm
Hyderabad/UNI: CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) has said that the new variant of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 that causes COVID-19, B.1.1.7 is believed to be 71 per cent more transmittable than the other variants.
Dec 29, 2020, at 11:30 pm
New Delhi: India’s principal scientific adviser Vijay Raghavan on Tuesday confirmed that there is no evidence that the current vaccines will not work against the new coronavirus variant.
J&K to get 60 new critical care ambulances soon
Dec 29, 2020, at 10:58 pm
Srinagar: Government is set to procure 60 critical care ambulances for augmenting the emergency and critical care services across the peripheries in J&K.
Pakistan registers new coronavirus strain
Dec 29, 2020, at 10:49 pm
Islamabad: Pakistan has confirmed a case of the new coronavirus mutant strain that was first detected in the UK, media reports said.
There will be set backs & new challenges in 2021: WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
Dec 29, 2020, at 09:34 pm
Geneva: World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Tuesday reminded people that 2021 might witness new challenges like the emergence of the new Coronavirus strain.
India clocks fresh spike of 16,432 Covid-19 cases, recovery rate now 95.92%
Dec 29, 2020, at 07:15 pm
New Delhi/UNI: India with the continuing downward trend in the daily spike of Novel Coronavirus cases on Tuesday clocked a fresh rise of 16,432 new infections during the past 24 hours, the Union Health Ministry update said here.
Vaccination no guarantee of virus eradication, more serious pandemic spreading: WHO officials
Dec 29, 2020, at 06:41 pm
New York: In the final World Health Organization (WHO) COVID-19 press conference of the year, on Monday, senior officials warned that the virus is "not necessarily the big one", and that there is a real chance of another, more serious pandemic spreading across the world.
Allergic reaction to Pfizer Coronavirus vaccine reported in Greece
Dec 29, 2020, at 03:27 pm
Athens/Sputnik: One case of an allergic reaction to the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine has been reported in Greece, Primary Health Care Secretary General Marios Themistokleous said at a Health Ministry briefing.