• 

  PM Modi in high-level Covid meet: Ramp up testing, genome sequencing, wear mask | 10 Points

  India | December 23, 2022 6:19 IST

  Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a high-level meeting after a sudden rise of Covid cases in China and some other countries which have raised concerns of a possible new wave across the world.

• 

  Covid: What triggered China's deadly wave and should the world worry?

  World | December 22, 2022 21:32 IST

  China Covid Wave: Experts are of the view that the efficacy of the Chinese-home-made vaccines are not up to the level of foreign-made mRNA vaccines, as the former provide only 50 per cent efficacy.

• 

  Serum Institute seeks drug regulator's approval for market authorisation of Covovax as booster dose

  India | December 25, 2022 13:54 IST

  Covid-19: Earlier on October 17, Prakash Kumar Singh, director of government and regulatory affairs at SII, submitted a market authorization application to the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) for the heterologous booster dose of Covovax.

• 

  All hypotheses on Covid origin remain on table, will continue to call China to share data: WHO

  World | December 22, 2022 6:13 IST

  China Covid Blast: We continue to call on China to share the data and conduct the studies we have requested, and which we continue to request. As I have said many times before, all hypotheses about the origins of Covid19 pandemic remain on the table, WHO Director said.

• 

  New Covid Wave: How India's situation will be better than China? Ex-AIIMS Director explains

  India | December 22, 2022 6:13 IST

  China Covid Wave: As Covid cases are rising in China, India is on alert, with Centre giving new directions to health bodies to pep up Covid appropriate behaviour and conducting genome sequencing to identify the sub-variant of the virus.

• 

  China Covid Wave: How infectious is new Omicron BF.7 sub-variant and its symptoms

  India | December 21, 2022 21:07 IST

  China Covid wave: The new Omicron sub-variant is more infectious than previous variants. A person infected with BF.7 variant can infect 10 to 18 people.

• 

  Opinion | India on full alert after fresh outbreak of Covid in China

  India | December 22, 2022 6:13 IST

  At a high-level review meeting on Wednesday, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya chalked out a strategy to tackle the emerging crisis.

• 

  4 cases of Omicron subvariant BF.7, driving China's Covid surge, detected in India

  India | December 22, 2022 6:13 IST

  Covid Omicron Subvariant BF.7 cases in India: The first case of BF.7 in India was detected in October by Gujarat Biotechnology Research Centre. So far, two cases have been reported from Gujarat while one case has been reported from Odisha.

• 

  Centre to review Covid situation as cases rise in China, Japan, South Korea and US

  India | December 21, 2022 7:33 IST

  China Covid outbreak: In a letter to states and UTs, Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan said such an exercise will enable timely detection of newer variants, if any, circulating in the country and will facilitate undertaking of requisite public health measures.

• 

  China Covid Explosion: Start of THERMONUCLEAR BAD, warns Epidemiologist. What world needs to know

  World | December 21, 2022 6:13 IST

  China Covid Explosion: The deaths in mainland China is being hugely underreported outside of China. Through a survey of hospitals, funeral parlors and related funeral industry chains in Beijing, there is a recent explosion in funeral services caused by the sharp increase in deaths.

• 

  China Covid Alert! Hospitals overwhelmed; expert warns of 3 waves with deaths likely in millions

  World | December 25, 2022 14:00 IST

  China Covid news: According to one estimate, over 70 per cent of the city’s population has been hit by the virus, which confined millions of people to their homes.

Advertisement
• 

  China reels under massive coronavirus wave; Senior Chinese diplomat’s bizarre explanation

  World | December 15, 2022 14:37 IST

  World Health Organization (WHO) head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Wednesday (December 14) called on China to share the requested data concerning Covid-19 in a bid to understand the origins of the virus.

• 

  China: Covid infections on rise again as govt eases 'draconian' curbs

  World | December 09, 2022 14:12 IST

  China: Official data showed a fall in new cases, but those no longer cover big parts of the population after the government ended mandatory testing for many people.

• 

  Covid was man-made virus, claims ex-Wuhan lab scientist

  World | December 16, 2022 12:47 IST

  Covid leaked from Wuhan: Epidemiologist Andrew Huff in his latest book 'The Truth About Wuhan' claims that the pandemic was caused by the US government's funding of coronaviruses in China, according to excerpts of the book.

• 

  'Xi step down': Protests intensify in China over strict Covid lockdown

  World | November 28, 2022 9:24 IST

  China Covid lockdown protest: Thousands of protesters turned out in Shanghai, where people were bundled into police cars, BBC reported. Students were also seen demonstrating at universities in Beijing and Nanjing, among other places.

• 

  Vaccinated people now make majority of COVID deaths in US: Report

  World | November 24, 2022 16:07 IST

  For the first time since the beginning of the pandemic in early 2020, a majority of Americans dying from Covid were at least partially vaccinated, according to the new analysis of federal and state data.

• 

  COVID-19 vaccines offer significant protection against reinfection: Study

  Health | November 23, 2022 13:47 IST

  COVID-19 vaccine: Data on vaccinations and infections from all Danish registrations were analysed for the study, which was published in the journal PLOS Medicine.

• 

  Covid on the rise again: Millions locked down in China's Guangzhou amid spike in cases

  World | November 22, 2022 10:24 IST

  Covid: While critics have questioned China’s Covid numbers, and specifically its death toll, its intensive approach to trying to contain infections has prevented massive outbreaks and kept new daily cases lower than in many other countries.

• 

  Covid: Residents clash with Chinese authorities over quarantine restrictions

  World | November 08, 2022 13:49 IST

  Covid19 news: A news release from the police department in the Shandong city of Linyi said public security would take strong measures against those who “illegally violated the legal rights of personal protection of citizens.”

• 

  India records 937 Covid infections in 24 hours, active cases decline by 324. Check state-wise data

  India | November 07, 2022 9:52 IST

  The active caseload declined by 324 in 24 hours and now comprise 0.03 per cent of the total infections. The national COVID-19 recovery rate has increased to 98.78 per cent, according to the ministry website.