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  Coronavirus Alert! India logs 1,805 new Covid-19 cases, active tally at 10,300

  India | March 27, 2023 10:57 IST

  Coronavirus Alert: India on Monday recorded 1,805 new coronavirus cases. As per the data of the Union Health Ministry, the active cases have surpassed the 10,000 mark.

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  Covid-19: India logs highest cases in 146 days with 1590 new infections | Check active cases tally

  India | March 25, 2023 11:34 IST

  Covid-19 in India: With six more fatalities, the death toll due to the viral disease has gone up to 5,30,824.

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  COVID-19: India logs 1,249 fresh infections; active cases rise to 7,927

  India | March 24, 2023 10:45 IST

  India on Friday reported over 1200 new COVID-19 cases and two deaths in the last 24 hours.

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  World Bank presidential nominee Ajay Banga tests COVID-19 positive ahead of meeting with PM Modi

  India | March 24, 2023 8:12 IST

  World Bank presidential nominee Ajay Banga tested COVID-19 positive during routine testing in New Delhi. He is currently quarantined in isolation.

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  Covid-19: India logs 1,300 fresh cases in single day, active tally climbs to 7,605

  India | March 23, 2023 11:52 IST

  The daily positivity was recorded at 1.46 per cent while the weekly positivity was pegged at 1.08 per cent.

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  Enhance lab surveillance, ramp up genome sequencing: PM Modi in Covid review meet

  India | March 23, 2023 6:11 IST

  Covid review meet: Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a high-level meeting to review the Covid-related situation and public health preparedness, amid rising cases in the country.

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  Centre's key meet on rising Covid, H3N2 cases today, will new restrictions return?

  India | March 20, 2023 14:32 IST

  According to the health ministry data, the daily positivity was recorded at 2.08 per cent while the weekly positivity was pegged at 0.86 per cent.

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  COVID-19 ALERT! 76 samples of new Coronavirus variant XBB1.16 found in India

  India | March 18, 2023 16:32 IST

  The XBB 1.16 variant was first found in January when two samples tested positive for the variant while in February a total of 59 samples were found. In March, till now 15 samples of the XBB 1.16 variant have been found.

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  Centre asks 6 states to follow risk assessment-based approach as Covid cases rise

  India | March 16, 2023 21:17 IST

  The Centre has advised these states to monitor the situation of Covid cases at micro-level and maintain focus on implementation of necessary measures for prompt and effective management of the disease, duly ensuring effective compliance with various advisories issued by the Ministry of Health.

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  After 113 days, India sees jump in Covid cases as 524 fresh infections surface in 24 hours

  India | March 12, 2023 16:32 IST

  The overall death, toll ever since pandemic first hit the country, has increased to 5,30,781 with one new fatality reported in Kerala, government data said.

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  Covid positivity rate increasing amid rising H3N2 cases, centre pitches for more surveillance

  India | March 11, 2023 16:28 IST

  Coronavirus: Centre stressed the rising cases of H3N2 and raised concern over a gradual increase in the COVID-19 positivity rate amid rising seasonal influenza subtype H3N2.

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  Another blow to China: COVID-19 likely came from lab leak in Wuhan, claims US study

  World | February 28, 2023 2:08 IST

  The Huanan market in central China's Wuhan city was the epicentre of the pandemic. From its origin there, the SARS-CoV-2 virus rapidly spread to other locations in Wuhan in late 2019 and then to the rest of the world.

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  Has WHO quietly shelved investigation into COVID-19 origins?

  World | February 15, 2023 16:57 IST

  COVID-19 origins: Research into the root cause of coronavirus outbreak was important as it could have helped scientists prepare better to tackle any such future outbreaks.

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  COVID has a significant impact on liver, study at Mumbai civic hospital finds

  Health | February 12, 2023 9:53 IST

  COVID-19 was known to affect respiratory, gastrointestinal, cardiovascular and other systems, but there were very few studies describing liver involvement and liver function test (LFT) abnormalities, he said.

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  NTAGI panel takes up inclusion of Covid jab COVOVAX on CoWIN portal

  India | February 11, 2023 16:10 IST

  The Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) on January 16 approved market authorisation to Covovax as a heterologous booster dose for adults who have been administered two doses of Covishield or Covaxin.

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  COVID-19: 3 lakh doses of intranasal vaccine 'iNCOVACC' sent to hospitals, informs Bharat Biotech

  India | February 05, 2023 18:29 IST

  COVID-19 vaccine: iNCOVACC, the world's first intranasal COVID-19 vaccine, was launched on January 26 (Thursday). The vaccine is now available on CoWIN and priced at Rs 800 for private markets and Rs 325 for the government of India and state governments.

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  Young Indian scientist develops biosensor that can detect Covid from sweat

  Health | February 01, 2023 11:47 IST

  COVID19: The biosensors would be a one-step identification or sensing technique.

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  Children's 'rushed' immune response makes them susceptible to Covid reinfection: Study

  Health | January 31, 2023 12:30 IST

  As children haven't been exposed to many viruses, their immune system is still 'naive'. And because they don't develop memory T cells, they are at risk of getting sick when they become reinfected

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  Deaths from heart diseases went up during COVID pandemic, says a study

  Health | January 29, 2023 15:00 IST

  Several people who had new or existing heart disease and stroke symptoms were reluctant to seek medical care, particularly in the early days of the COVID pandemic.

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  Chinese govt forces doctors to hide Covid-related deaths: Reports

  World | January 28, 2023 14:49 IST

  Covid19 in China: China revealed that the country had recorded close to 60,000 Covid-related deaths in early and mid-December, 2022.