India adds 10,753 fresh COVID-19 cases, active infections at 53,720

India adds 10,753 fresh COVID-19 cases, active infections at 53,720

File photo of a COVID-19 preparedness drill at the Government Rajaji Hospital in Madurai on Monday, April 10, 2023. | Photo Credit: ASHOK R. India recorded 10,753 fresh COVID-19 cases, taking the number of active infections to 53,720, according to Union Health Ministry data updated on April 15. The toll has climbed to 5,31,091 with … Read more

China health officials lash out at WHO, defend virus search

China health officials lash out at WHO, defend virus search

Shen Hongbing, the director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, speaks at a press conference on the origins of COVID-19 at the State Council Information Office in Beijing, Saturday, April 8, 2023. | Photo Credit: AP Chinese health officials defended their search for the source of the COVID-19 virus and lashed out Saturday … Read more

COVID-19 | Covovax to get approval as booster in 10-15 days, says Adar Poonawalla

COVID-19 | Covovax to get approval as booster in 10-15 days, says Adar Poonawalla

Serum Institute of India chief executive officer Adar Poonawalla. File. | Photo Credit: Kamal Narang Serum Institute of India’s Chief Executive Officer Adar Poonawalla has said their Covovax vaccine will get approval as a booster against COVID-19 in the next 10 to 15 days. The vaccine works very well against the Omicron variant of coronavirus, … Read more

China hospitals unprepared as COVID-19 cases surge after opening

China hospitals unprepared as COVID-19 cases surge after opening

A resident receives a health check before getting a COVID-19 vaccine in China’s southwestern Guizhou province on December 12, 2022. | Photo Credit: AFP China’s sudden easing of restrictions on December 7 after three years of a zero-COVID policy has left many hospitals unprepared to deal with the current surge of cases in many Chinese … Read more

Coronavirus 2021 Live News: Singapore reports rare inflammatory syndrome among Covid positive kids

Coronavirus 2021 Live News: Singapore reports rare inflammatory syndrome among Covid positive kids

Traders and transporters during a special vaccination drive against COVID-19 by Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) in Navi Mumbai. (PTI Photo) Coronavirus in India 2021 Live Updates: Has India passed the great Diwali test? 48 hours after the festivities, India’s Covid trajectory has not seen any major spike. Yes, there are pockets of concern – … Read more

Covid-19 deadliest pandemic in US, claimed more lives than 1918 ‘Spanish flu’

Covid-19 deadliest pandemic in US, claimed more lives than 1918 ‘Spanish flu’

Globally, the 1918 pandemic claimed at least 50 million lives, as per the data cited by CDC (Reuters Photo) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has come with data that has shocked many. The numbers reveal that the covid-19 has claimed more lives in the US than Spanish flu, a 1918 pandemic that killed … Read more

Coronavirus India Latest Update Live: India reports 42,618 new Covid-19 cases, 330 deaths; active cases cross 4-lakh mark again

Coronavirus India Latest Update Live: India reports 42,618 new Covid-19 cases, 330 deaths; active cases cross 4-lakh mark again

After dropping below one, Covid R-value in India increased sharply to 1.17 in second half of August, mainly driven by cases in states like Kerala and Maharashtra. (Picture: Reuters) Coronavirus Case and Fatality Rate in India, Coronavirus Third Wave, Covid R-Value, Today September 4 Live Updates:  Fear of a third wave of the coronavirus pandemic … Read more

Covid-19 vaccine: Pune organisation launches initiative to jab 5 lakh poor, vulnerable people

Covid-19 vaccine: Pune organisation launches initiative to jab 5 lakh poor, vulnerable people

Pochat also said that help from community-based organisations along with NGOs will also be taken in identifying the beneficiaries and vaccinating them against Coronavirus (Representative image) Even as the vaccination drive in the country has picked up a steady pace in the past few months, there is a small section of vulnerable population for whom … Read more

Coronavirus Latest Live Updates: What’s ‘festival variant’? Find out all about new mystery troubling experts in England

Coronavirus Latest Live Updates: What’s ‘festival variant’? Find out all about new mystery troubling experts in England

Beneficiaries not adhering to social distancing norms, wait in a queue to receive COVID-19 vaccine dose, at a government school turned vaccination centre at Shivaji Nagar, in Gurugram. (PTI Photo) Coronavirus India Live Updates, Covid-19 Vaccine Latest Update India, August 31st Covid Live Tracker Today: After a week of a marked surge in the corona … Read more

Expert take: Dr Gagandeep Kang on booster shot, children’s vaccine & the state of the pandemic

Expert take: Dr Gagandeep Kang on booster shot, children’s vaccine & the state of the pandemic

“For me the stage that we are in now, we really need data that is broken down” and much of it is now readily available and even if has been collected is apparently not being shared, says Dr Kang. India recorded 25,072 new COVID-19 cases in the 24 hours ending August 23rd morning. It is … Read more