NEW DELHI – Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan on Monday said that the recovery time from COVID-19 infection and oxygen dependency will be reduced by anti-COVID drug 2-deoxy-D-glucose (2-DG) developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO). While speaking at the release ceremony of the first batch of the 2-DG drug, Vardhan said, […]
NEW DELHI – A top Indian virologist has resigned from a forum of scientific advisers set up by the government to detect variants of the coronavirus, he told Reuters on Sunday, weeks after questioning the authorities’ handling of the pandemic. Shahid Jameel, chair of the scientific advisory group of the forum known as INSACOG, declined […]
NEW DELHI – India recorded 281,386 new cases of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in the last 24 hours, the Union health ministry update showed on Monday. With this, the total tally reached 24,965,463. The data updated at 8am showed that 4,106 people succumbed to the disease in the said period, which pushed up the death […]
NEW DELHI – Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday announced extension of the ongoing lockdown by one more week in the national capital to prevent the spread of COVID-19. The lockdown imposed on April 19 has been extended for the fourth time till May 24 morning. It was scheduled to end at 5 am […]
NEW DELHI – India’s tally of cases of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) has reached 24,684,077 as the country logged 311,170 cases in the last 24 hours, the Union ministry of health and family welfare (MoHFW) dashboard showed on Sunday morning. The daily fatalities due to Covid-19 were recorded at 4,077 taking the overall related death […]
NEW DELHI – Former Union health minister and senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad on Saturday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, suggesting measures to increase COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing in the country, party officials said. In his letter, a copy of which has also been sent to Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan, Azad has also […]
NEW DELHI – India on Saturday recorded 326,089 new coronavirus disease (Covid-19) cases and 3,890 more deaths, taking the caseload and the death toll to 24,372,907 and 266,207 respectively, according to the Union health ministry’s dashboard. As many as 353,299 people recovered in the last 24 hours and the total recoveries have climbed to 20,432,898 […]
WASHINGTON – White House chief medical adviser Dr Anthony Fauci said in an interview on Thursday that dramatically ramping up Covid-19 vaccination drive is key to ending the crisis in India and extending the gap between two doses of Covishield is a “reasonable approach”. “When you are in a very difficult situation, the way you […]
NEW DELHI – India on Friday registered 343,144 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, taking the country’s total coronavirus infection tally past the 24-million mark. 4,000 new fatalities were recorded, taking the death toll to 262,317. The country’s total case count has now reached 24,046,809, according to the Union health ministry’s dashboard. The […]
NEW DELHI – As India continues to battle the second wave of Covid-19, a story of a son singing ‘Tera mujhe hai pehle ka naata koi’ on the last call to his mother suffering from the coronavirus has left netizens in tears. The heartbreaking account was shared on Twitter by a doctor attending the patient, […]