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A student poses for photographs after being administered with a COVID-19 vaccine in Hyderabad. (Photo: PTI)

India sees single-day rise of 58,097 new Covid infections, 2,135 cases...

The death toll has climbed to 4,82,551 with 534 daily fatalities

5 Jan 2022 10:28 AM IST

A health worker (background R) inoculates a youth with a Covaxin dose against the Covid-19 coronavirus during a vaccination drive for youths in the 15-18 age group at a school in Kolkata. (Photo: AFP)

Antibody cocktail not useful for most patients with Omicron: Experts

Doctors in Kolkata believe that the formula of antibody cocktail is not useful for the Omicron variant of coronavirus

5 Jan 2022 9:24 AM IST

A health worker conducts COVID-19 testing of a woman amid concern over a third wave of the coronavirus pandemic in India, in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

Surge in cases indicative of third Covid wave in India: Expert

There are some epidemiological similarities between South Africa and India

4 Jan 2022 5:04 PM IST

A health worker conducts COVID-19 testing of a woman amid concern over a third wave of the coronavirus pandemic in India, in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

Omicron in 81 per cent of Covid samples tested, says Delhi health...

Of the latest 187 Covid samples tested, 152 had Omicron and 8.5 per cent had Delta, he told the Delhi Assembly

3 Jan 2022 2:47 PM IST

A man assists a child to use hand sanitizer as a precaution against coronavirus before entering at an Industrial exhibition in Hyderabad. (Photo: AP)

India reports 33,750 fresh Covid cases, Omicron tally rises to 1,700

Maharashtra is the worst-affected state with 510 cases, followed by Delhi with 351

3 Jan 2022 10:13 AM IST

policeman monitors the crowd at the Sarojini Nagar market operating on the odd-even system as per guidelines set by the Delhi government, in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

India records 27,553 fresh cases of Covid, Omicron tally rises to...

Maharashtra recorded a maximum of 460 cases, followed by Delhi, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu and Kerala

2 Jan 2022 10:32 AM IST

A health worker checks swab samples collected for RTPCR test to detect COVID-19 at a government hospital in Hyderabad. (Photo: AP)

Omicron BA.2 will not cause another COVID-19 surge, says expert

The Expert further said that BA.2 will be more transmissible than BA.1 and has mutated to increase its transmissibility

21 Feb 2022 4:55 PM IST

Chinese President Xi Jinping. (via AP)

K.C. Singh | Amid Beijing's overtures, Delhi needs to stand firm

Chinese President Xi Jinping has just six months left for the Communist Party's quinquennial national conference

27 March 2022 11:21 PM 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

OKWU smartphones will be manufactured and assembled in Shenzhen, China and the company plans to have their own assembly unit in India ahead.

OKWU launches smart+er phone in India

The device sports a 5.5-inch HD display and is powered by a MEDIATEK 6737 Chipset that is powered by 1.5 GHz Quad Core...

6 May 2017 5:57 PM IST