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  SII chairman Cyrus Poonawalla says third dose desirable; warns against mix-and-match

  India | August 14, 2021 9:12 IST

  Cyrus Poonawalla on Friday strongly affirmed that mixing two different vaccines of COVID-19 is a very risky decision and it is must be discouraged.

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  Virus may have jumped from animals to people at Wuhan's Huanan seafood market: WHO Scientist

  World | August 13, 2021 9:20 IST

  When WHO traveled to China earlier this year to investigate the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, Peter Ben Embarek said he was worried about biosafety standards at a laboratory close to the market where the first human cases were detected.  

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  Will take another year to vaccinate all adults at current rate of vaccine supply: Delhi health dept

  India | August 08, 2021 13:58 IST

  "The present rate of COVID-19 vaccine supply," will take another year for all to get vaccinated, says the Delhi health department.

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  Mix-matching Covaxin, Covishield vaccines yields better results: ICMR

  India | August 08, 2021 11:47 IST

  ICMR said that mixing and matching of vaccines Covishield and Covaxin can yeild better results against Covid-19.

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  India records 44,643 new COVID-19 cases, 464 deaths in a day; 49.53 cr vaccines administered so far

  India | August 06, 2021 10:25 IST

  For third day in a row, India recorded over 40,000 Covid cases amid concerns of rise in trajectory of fresh infections. The total fatalities in India jumped to 426,754.

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  Breaking News, August 5 | Highlights

  India | August 05, 2021 23:40 IST

  IndiaTV News provides you all the breaking news, latest news, breaking story videos, Live TV and top shows of IndiaTV, the country's leading news channel on a single platform to ensure you don't miss anything important.

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  WHO: 4 million new coronavirus cases reported globally

  India | August 04, 2021 18:18 IST

  The UN health agency said Wednesday infections have been increasing for more than a month, although the worldwide number of deaths dropped by about 8%.

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  Delhi reports 51 new COVID-19 cases in 24 hours

  India | August 03, 2021 9:38 IST

  With the new cases, the overall infection tally in the city rose to 14,36,401 out of which 14,10,809 patients have recovered from the disease.

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  Meerut woman defeats Covid; discharged from hospital after 100-day battle

  India | August 01, 2021 9:15 IST

  After battling with the virus for long, a 45-year-old woman was discharged from the hospital on Friday post 100 days of recieving treatment.

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  Pakistan: Covid vaccination suspended after chaos at biggest inoculation centre in Karachi

  World | August 01, 2021 7:46 IST

  Karachi Expo Centre stopped its inoculation drive  following chaos after hundreds of people rushed to get themselves vaccinated.

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  Florida breaks record with more than 21,000 new COVID cases

  World | August 01, 2021 7:27 IST

  The Florida Hospital Association said Friday that statewide COVID-19 hospitalizations are nearing last year’s peak.

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  Over 3.14 crore balance COVID-19 doses available with states, private hospitals: Centre

  India | July 31, 2021 12:37 IST

  Over 48.78 crore vaccine doses have been provided to states and UTs so far through all sources and further 68,57,590 doses are in the pipeline.

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  Delta variant may spread as easily as chickenpox, cause more severe infection: Reports

  World | July 30, 2021 12:58 IST

  The document from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) outlines unpublished data that shows fully vaccinated people might spread the Delta variant, first identified in India, at the same rate as unvaccinated people.

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  China's Zhangjiajie to close tourist sites after resurgence

  World | July 30, 2021 9:24 IST

  Zhangjiajie started massive nucleic acid testing in three regions on Wednesday, said Wang Jianghua, director of the municipal health commission.

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  Kerala logs over 22,000 new Covid cases, more than 17,000 recover from infection

  India | July 28, 2021 23:20 IST

  In the last 24 hours, 1,96,902 samples were tested and the TPR was found to be 11.2 per cent. So far, 2,67,33,694 samples have been tested, it said.

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  Libya imposes curfew due to COVID-19 surge

  World | July 27, 2021 14:57 IST

  The corona curfew will last for two weeks from 6:00 pm to 6:00 am, Xinhua news agency reported on Monday.

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  Child deaths increase in Indonesia as Covid surges

  Science | July 26, 2021 15:37 IST

  According to Pulungan, over 800 children younger than 18 have died from the virus in Indonesia since the pandemic began, but the majority of those deaths have occurred only in the past month.

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  COVID19: 50% rise in number of people under 20 being hospitalised for eating disorders

  Health | July 23, 2021 13:46 IST

  There has been a significant rise in the number of young people -- under 20 -- being hospitalised for eating disorders in England as a result of the Covid pandemic, the media reported. 

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  'Next Covid wave can be bigger than second wave if...': Randeep Guleria

  India | July 16, 2021 13:19 IST

  AIIMS Director Randeep Guleria has said that third wave can be mitigated by following Covid-appropriate behaviour such as maintaining social distancing, using masks, and taking vaccine.

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  Covid cases soar in US amid falling vaccination rates

  World | July 13, 2021 6:42 IST

  Covid-19 cases rose in more than 40 US states over the past week as the vaccination rate has slowed down and the highly transmissible Delta variant continues to spread.