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A BMC health worker collects swab sample of a passenger for COVID-19 testing, at Dadar railway station in Mumbai on June 22, 2021. (PTI/Shashank Parade)

COVID-19: India's active caseload declines to 6,43,194, lowest in 82...

As daily recoveries continue to outnumber the daily new cases for the 41st consecutive day, the recovery rate improved...

23 Jun 2021 11:22 AM IST

Many post-Covid patients with skin complications are rushing to OPDs. (Photo: Representational/Pixabay)

Skin complications post vaccination reported in some people, say...

Skin reactions due to the mRNA vaccines for Covid manufactured by Pfizer and Moderna have also been reported in the US

22 Jun 2021 5:04 PM IST

When the researchers tested the sera of 20 participants who received the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine they found that it could act against the engineered coronavirus variants. (Photo:AFP)

Pfizer, AstraZeneca vaccines protect against Delta variant: Lancet...

Pfizer vaccine offered 92 per cent protection against the Alpha variant and 79 per cent against the Delta strain 2 weeks...

15 Jun 2021 1:11 PM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath during a meeting, in New Delhi on June 11, 2021 (PTI)

Anita Katyal | UP rumblings: Yogi's men bank on Modi to allay 2022...

The BJP MLAs are hoping Yogi's meetings with the Prime Minister and home minister Amit Shah will yield positive results

13 Jun 2021 7:33 AM IST

Highlighting that vaccination of young adults and children is not supported by evidence and would not be cost effective, they said unplanned inoculation can promote mutant strains. (AP)

Unplanned vaccination can promote mutant strains: Health experts to PM...

Vaccinating the vulnerable and those at risk, instead of mass population-wide inoculation including children, should be...

11 Jun 2021 1:45 PM IST

Many universities are only accepting the students who have been vaccinated with a WHO-approved COVID-19 vaccine. (Photo: Representational/PTI)

Jharkhand tops in vaccine wastage; Kerala, West Bengal report negative...

While Kerala reported -6.37 per cent vaccine wastage, West Bengal recorded -5.48 per cent

10 Jun 2021 2:39 PM IST

A student receives COVID-19 vaccine dose during a special vaccination drive organised by the Karnataka government for the students, who are going abroad for education and employment, in Bengaluru, June 2, 2021. (PTI /Shailendra Bhojak)

India's cumulative vaccination coverage crosses 24-crore mark

The ministry informed that India's daily recoveries continue to outnumber the daily new cases for the 28th consecutive...

10 Jun 2021 12:17 PM IST

Weyan, a village in district Bandipora (J&K) has become the first village in the country, where entire population above 18 years has been vaccinated. (Image credit: Twitter/@PIBSrinagar)

J&K hamlet first village to achieve 100% COVID vaccination of its...

The credit goes to the healthcare workers whose strenuous efforts shot Weyan hamlet, with an adult population of 362, to...

8 Jun 2021 12:41 PM IST

A health worker administers a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine to a man at the drive-in vaccination centre, at Akshardham, in New Delhi, June 7, 2021. (PTI /Ravi Choudhary)

People above 45 yrs will be given vaccines at polling booths: Delhi CM...

The BLOs will visit households in 72 wards from Tuesday to identify and send eligible persons for vaccination at the...

7 Jun 2021 1:34 PM IST

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. (PTI Photo)

Rahul Gandhi mocks Modi government for 'fighting for blue ticks'...

In the last few weeks several Congress leaders have attacked the Central government over 'mismanagement' of Covid...

6 Jun 2021 11:47 PM IST

A beneficiary receives her first dose of Covid-19 vaccine at a parking lot in Kolkata. (Photo: PTI)

Govt says will have enough vaccine doses by Aug to vaccinate up to a...

The govt said ramping up of testing as well as containment at the district level 'has worked' in bringing down the cases

4 Jun 2021 5:16 PM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi praised the scientific community, saying it is perhaps unprecedented that vaccines were prepared within a year. (Photo: PTI/File)

PM Modi hails Indian scientists for developing vaccine against...

PM Modi reiterated his call for an

4 Jun 2021 1:12 PM IST