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Covishield, the India-manufactured Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, was added to the UKs approved list last month. (PTI)

Top scientists for COVID booster vaccine dose

Give booster jabs to 40 plus and high risk cases, recommend top genomic scientists

3 Dec 2021 12:53 PM IST

A healthcare worker holds a vial with single-dose Sputnik Light Covid-19 vaccine. (Photo: AFP)

Booster dose of six Covid vaccines safe, increases immunity: Lancet...

Two doses of AstraZeneca and Pfizer vaccines have shown 79 per cent and 90 per cent protection

3 Dec 2021 11:53 AM IST

Arriving passengers leave a terminal at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport in Mumbai. (Photo: AFP)

India detects first two cases of Omicron, both from Karnataka

Health Ministry said that both the cases have been reported in Karnataka, with the patients being two men aged 66 and 46

2 Dec 2021 4:39 PM IST

Students wearing masks sit inside a classroom as schools reopened in Kochi, Kerala. (Photo: AP)

In-person student attendance in schools may drop by 14 per cent due to...

The World Health Organisation has designated the new SARS-Cov-2 variant as a 'variant of concern'

2 Dec 2021 2:19 PM IST

Paramedical staff screen Indians after they arrive at New Delhi airport from Chinas coronavirus-hit city of Wuhan on Sunday. India airlifted the second batch of 323 Indians on Sunday from Wuhan. (Photo: PTI)

Four more international travellers test COVID-19 positive at Delhi...

A total of eight people from 'at-risk' countries have tested positive for COVID-19 in Delhi till now

2 Dec 2021 12:59 PM IST

Arriving passengers leave a terminal at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport in Mumbai. (Photo: PTI)

India records 9,765 new Covid cases, 477 deaths in a span of 24 hours

The active cases comprise 0.29 per cent of the total infections, the lowest since March 2020

2 Dec 2021 10:00 AM IST

$Travellers from the \at-risk\ countries have to follow additional measures on arrival in India from Tuesday midnight. (Photo: PTI)$ India

Four passengers from UK, Netherlands test positive for Covid in Delhi

Their samples have been sent for genome sequencing to ascertain if they have the new variant, sources said

1 Dec 2021 12:58 PM IST

A pedestrian walks past a wall mural highlighting the benefits of vaccination and urging people to get vaccinated against the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, in Mumbai. (Photo: AFP)

November records lowest number of fresh COVID-19 cases in India since...

The number of daily cases peaked on May 6, when the country registered 4,14,188 Covid cases in a span of 24 hours

1 Dec 2021 12:31 PM IST

An elderly man, who earlier refused the vaccine, receives the vaccine for COVID-19 during a door to door vaccination drive in Sativeti village, on the outskirts of Gauhati. (Photo: AP)

India records 8,954 fresh Covid cases, 28 per cent higher than...

The death toll climbed to 4,69,247 with 267 fresh fatalities, while the active cases were recorded at less than a lakh...

1 Dec 2021 10:05 AM IST

A pedestrian walks past a wall mural depicting a health worker to spread awareness about the Covid-19 coronavirus in Mumbai. (Photo: AFP)

Six passengers returning from 'high-risk' countries test positive in...

The public health department of Maharashtra said that the passengers are either asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic

1 Dec 2021 9:49 AM IST

This 2020 electron microscope image provided by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases - Rocky Mountain Laboratories shows SARS-CoV-2 virus particles which cause COVID-19, isolated from a patient in the U.S., emerging from the surface of cells cultured in a lab. (AP)

US scientists detect Omicron variant for first time in deer

The yet-to-be peer-reviewed study also found neutralising antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 in one of the Omicron-infected deer

7 March 2022 2:01 PM IST