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Students wearing face masks attend a class at a school that was reopened after closure for months owing to coronavirus pandemic, in Amritsar, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020. Schools are being opened as per guidelines issued in Unlock. 5. (PTI)

Wearing a mask works like a vaccine against COVID-19

It is yet-to-be-tested theory published in The New England Journal of Medicine

2 Nov 2020 1:03 PM IST

A student washes her hands at Chamata Girls School after schools re-opened following a gap of more then seven months due to coronavirus pandemic, at Chamata in Nalbari district, Monday, Nov. 2, 2020. (PTI Photo)

Coronavirus developing genetic mutations, turning more contagious:...

The research, published in the journal mBIO, however, did not find that these mutations have made the virus deadlier

2 Nov 2020 11:51 AM IST

In this file photo taken on December 8, 2020 a member of staff draws the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine out of a phial at the Southmead Hospital, Briston. (Graeme Robertson / various sources / AFP)

Shobhaa De | V is for valour, victory But V is also for vaccine!

Questions about decisions that will affect the heath and well-being of our planet will be decided by politicians!

12 Dec 2020 9:01 AM IST

Australia extrends travel ban on Chinese visitors following virus...

Risk of COVID-19 very much upon us, PM Scott Morrison sayd

27 Feb 2020 2:09 PM IST

Women wearing face masks walks past the Duomo gothic cathedral in Milan, Italy. AP photo

Covid-19: Is the world ready to tackle a pandemic?

Public health officials are turning to guidelines for pandemic flu and considering school closures, telecommuting and...

26 Feb 2020 9:51 AM IST

In this Friday, Feb. 21, 2020, photo, a doctor in a protective suit checks with patients at a temporary hospital at Tazihu Gymnasium in Wuhan in central Chinas Hubei province. Chinas leadership sounded a cautious note Friday about the countrys progress in halting the spread of the new virus that has now killed more than 2,200 people, after several days of upbeat messages. (AP)

China reports decrease in new cases of coronavirus

Number of recovered patients higher than fresh cases of viral infection

23 Feb 2020 9:44 AM IST

Representative image of a vaccine being administered to a person. (Photo | US Air Force - Briana Jones)

Human trials of Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine to begin in...

US pharmaceutical Moderna has already moved into human trials for its vaccine candidate, as has China's CanSinoBIO.

31 March 2020 6:02 PM IST

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RBI likely to cut interest rates by 100 bps in FY21: Fitch Solutions

Fitch Solutions said consumer price inflation returning back to the RBI's 2-4 per cent target range will permit further...

31 March 2020 5:30 PM IST

Spain outbreak is the worlds second deadliest. (Photo- AFP)

Spain: Coronavirus claims 849 lives in a day

Spain, whose outbreak is the world's second deadliest after Italy, broke another national record of 849 deaths in one...

31 March 2020 5:25 PM IST

This scanning electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2 (round blue objects) emerging from the surface of cells cultured in the lab. SARS-CoV-2, also known as 2019-nCoV, is the virus that causes COVID-19. The virus shown was isolated from a patient in the U.S. (Image | NIAID-RML)

An experimental drug designed by MIT may block coronavirus' entry into...

The potential drug is a short protein fragment, or peptide, that mimics a protein found on the surface of human cells,...

31 March 2020 5:16 PM IST

12-year-old infected with coronavirus dies in Belgium

12-year-old infected with coronavirus dies in Belgium

The small EU country, with a population of 11.4 million, now has 12,775 cases of persons tested positive for COVID-19

31 March 2020 4:30 PM IST

A 3D medical illustration of 2019 Novel Coronavirus, derived from a CDC released image. The cross-section shows the inner components of the virus. (Photo | Creative Commons - Scientificanimations.com)

Australia looking through particle accelerator at coronavirus protein...

Using the technology, within five minutes one can understand why a drug does or does not attach to a COVID-19 protein,...

31 March 2020 4:16 PM IST