Jammu and Kashmir: COVID-19 vaccination for 18-44 age group commences in Poonch
Jun 18, 2021, at 10:19 pm
Srinagar: Vaccination drive to vaccinate people aged between 18 to 45 years in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch region, media reports said.
COVID-19 in Jammu and Kashmir: Medical team travels 130 kms to vaccinate Gujjars, Bakarwals
Jun 18, 2021, at 09:04 pm
Srinagar: A team of doctors recently joined the COVID-19 vaccination initiative and reached the higher reaches of the mountains in Doda district to inoculate the Gujjars and Bakarwals.
Over 2.58 crore COVID-19 vaccine doses still available with states: Health Ministry
Jun 18, 2021, at 08:10 pm
New Delhi/UNI: More than 2.58 crore (2,58,00,405) COVID-19 vaccine doses are still available with the states and Union Territories, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said on Friday.
India fights COVID-19: 62,480 new fresh cases, 1,587 deaths recorded in past 24 hours
Jun 18, 2021, at 03:17 pm
New Delhi: After marginal rise in number, India recorded a slight decline in daily count as 62,480 news COVID-19 cases were recorded in the past 24 hours, as per Ministry of Health released data on Friday.
India's active Covid caseload dips to 8,26,740; lowest after 71 days
Jun 18, 2021, at 02:55 am
New Delhi/IBNS: India continues to report a sustained slide in the daily new COVID-19 cases with 67,208 fresh infections in the last 24 hours.
Covid-19: Three children in Mumbai lose one eye to Black Fungus Disease
Jun 18, 2021, at 02:24 am
Mumbai/IBNS: The doctors in Mumbai had to remove an eye of each of three children infected with Mucormycosis or Black Fungus, according to media reports.
Jun 18, 2021, at 12:39 am
New Delhi/IBNS: Indigenously-made Biological E's anti-Covid19 jab, expected to have an efficacy of 90 per cent could be a gamechanger in the battle against the pandemic, according to a top doctor on a government advisory panel.
India records 67,208 fresh COVID-19 cases in past 24 hours, 2330 deaths
Jun 17, 2021, at 02:59 pm
New Delhi: India once again witnessed a rise in daily COVID-19 count as 67,208 cases were registered in the past 24 hours, data released by the Ministry of Health showed.
Jun 17, 2021, at 05:50 am
Helsinki: A Helsinki-based Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air has claimed that a Chinese-backed coal-fired power plant in Bangladesh is failing to ensure proper environmental inspections.
More than 32 lakh vaccine doses administered across country so far: Centre
Jun 17, 2021, at 04:56 am
New Delhi/IBNS: The cumulative number of COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in the country has reached more than 26.53 crore as per the 8 pm provisional report on Wednesday, the Centre said.
Nine more cities in India receive Russia's Sputnik V vaccines
Jun 17, 2021, at 04:21 am
New Delhi/IBNS: The pilot launch of Russia's Covid vaccine-Sputnik V-in India, which was initiated in Hyderabad, has now been extended to nine other cities.
Bhutan likely to miss 12-week deadline for second dose of vaccine
Jun 17, 2021, at 03:22 am
Bhutan is likely to miss the 8-12 weeks deadline for the second dose of the Astra-Zeneca Covid-19 vaccine as the government has not managed to procure vaccines so far. The country had administered the first doses to around 97 percent of its population in April in the record nine days' time.
Johnson and Johnson’s single-dose vaccine approved in Bangladesh
Jun 17, 2021, at 01:23 am
Bangladesh has approved Johnson and Johnson’s single-dose Covid-19 for emergency use in the country, making it the sixth vaccine to get approval. The country is all set to resume its national vaccination campaign on Saturday.
India's COVID-19 recovery rate increases to 95.80 percent
Jun 16, 2021, at 10:11 pm
New Delhi: India continues to report a sustained slide in the daily new COVID cases as the country has reported 62,224 daily new cases in the last 24 hours.
Nineteen percent of asymptomatic COVID-19 patients develop long-haul COVID: Study
Jun 16, 2021, at 03:51 pm
New York: Nineteen percent of COVID-19 patients without symptoms went on to exhibit at least one of the post-COVID conditions known as long-haul COVID 30 days or more after their initial COVID-19 diagnosis.
India witnesses marginal rise in daily count as 62,224 fresh cases registered in past 24 hours
Jun 16, 2021, at 03:13 pm
New Delhi: India, the country still struggling to contain the second wave of the pandemic, registered 62,224 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, a marginal rise from the previous day, data revealed by the Ministry of Health revealed on Wednesday.
Anyone above 18 years can walk in at nearest centre for CoWIN registration, vaccination: Govt
Jun 16, 2021, at 05:18 am
New Delhi/IBNS: The Union Health Ministry on Tuesday informed that anyone over the age of 18 can walk into the nearest vaccination centre to get registered on the CoWIN digital platform and then get inoculated against COVID-19.
Sputnik V vaccine is more efficient against Delta variant of coronavirus: Study
Jun 16, 2021, at 12:01 am
Moscow: The Russia-developed Sputnik V vaccine has been found working efficiently against the Delta variant of the COVID-19 disease, a study revealed on Tuesday.
COVID-19 cases drop for seventh week, but deaths fall less slowly: WHO
Jun 15, 2021, at 09:24 pm
New York: The number of new COVID-19 cases reported to the UN health agency has declined for seven weeks in a row, in what the top official there called on Monday “the longest sequence of weekly declines during the pandemic so far”.
Over 1.05 crore COVID-19 vaccine doses still available with states: Health Ministry
Jun 15, 2021, at 05:52 pm
New Delhi/UNI: More than 1.05 crore (1,05,61,861) anti-COVID-19 vaccine doses are still available with the states and Union Territories, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said on Tuesday.
India reports 60,471 new COVID-19 cases, 2,726 deaths in 24 hours
Jun 15, 2021, at 04:18 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: India on Tuesday reported less than one lakh new COVID-19 cases for the eighth consecutive days while the toll in the last 24 hours remained under the three-thousand-mark.
AIIMS Delhi to start screening 6-12 yrs children for Covaxin trial from Tuesday
Jun 15, 2021, at 05:57 am
New Delhi/IBNS: The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi will begin the selection process of children in the age group of 6-12 years for the clinical trials of Bharat Biotech's Covaxin on Tuesday, said Dr Sanjay Rai, professor at the Centre for Community Medicine at AIIMS Delhi, said a media report.
Velvetleaf extract shows to inhibit replication of Sars-CoV-2 virus in lab : CSIR Study
Jun 15, 2021, at 05:06 am
New Delhi/IBNS: The researchers in three laboratories of the government- owned Council for Industrial and Scientific Research (CSIR) have found that the root and plant extract of velvetleaf can stop the replication of Sars-CoV-2 virus, which causes Covid-19, by up to 98 per cent in cell cultures, according to media reports.
Pakistan: Five killed, six injured as windstorm lashes northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province
Jun 15, 2021, at 12:46 am
Islamabad/UNI: At least five people were killed and six others injured in separate rain and windstorm-triggered accidents in Pakistan's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, the Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) said.
More transparency needed in investigating coronavirus origins: WHO Director-General Tedros
Jun 15, 2021, at 12:42 am
London/UNI: Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has called on China to cooperate on the ongoing investigation into the origins of the novel coronavirus.
Novavax COVID-19 vaccine demonstrates 90 percent overall efficacy
Jun 14, 2021, at 11:13 pm
Gaithersburg, Maryland: American biotechnology company Novavax, Inc on Monday announced that NVX-CoV2373, its recombinant nanoparticle protein-based COVID-19 vaccine, demonstrated 100 percent protection against moderate and severe disease, 90.4 percent efficacy overall, and met the primary endpoint in its prevent-19 pivotal Phase 3 trial.
India's recovery rate increases to 95.43 per cent
Jun 14, 2021, at 09:49 pm
New Delhi: India continues to report a sustained slide in the daily new COVID cases. The country has reported 70,421 Daily New Cases in the last 24 hours.
Over 1.40 cr COVID-19 vaccine doses still available with states: Health Ministry
Jun 14, 2021, at 07:08 pm
New Delhi/UNI: More than 1.40 crore (1,40,70,224) COVID-19 vaccine doses are still available with the states and Union Territories, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said on Monday.
India sees another dip, records 70,421 new COVID-19 cases in past 24 hours
Jun 14, 2021, at 03:08 pm
New Delhi: India witnessed another dip in the daily counts as 70,421 new COVID-19 cases were recorded in the past 24 hours, the lowest figure in 72 days, showed the data released by the Ministry of Health on Monday.
Jun 14, 2021, at 04:02 am
Srinagar: In order to speed up the Covid-19 vaccination drive in Srinagar district, the Deputy Commissioner (DC) Srinagar, Mohammed Aijaz Asad today held a consultation session with religious leaders in his office, here.