COVID19 Updates

"Last week, there were more than 18 million reported cases," reminded World Health Organisation’s chief Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Tuesday in his opening remarks at the media briefing...

India on Sunday reported 2,71,202 fresh COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, marginally higher than Saturday, according to the Union Ministry of Health. A total of 7,743 Omicron cases have been...

India on Thursday reported 2,47,417 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours ending at 9 am, up by 27% since yesterday. The daily positivity rate has risen to 13.11%. With 84,825...

World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Thursday warned the world not to take the Omicron variant of COVID-19 as"mild" reminding the global leaders that the highest number...

Ben Krishna, University of Cambridge It is controversial whether viruses are alive, but – like all living things – they do evolve. This fact has become abundantly clear during the...

Arturo Bris, International Institute for Management Development (IMD) Until the Omicron variant hit the headlines, the signs were that 2021 was going to close with a stellar stock-market performance. Most...

The detection of a new, heavily mutated, and potentially vaccine-resistant coronavirus variant in Botswana and other nations is sending shockwaves worldwide as public health officials rush to understand the strain and its possible...

Rajib Dasgupta, Jawaharlal Nehru University COVID continues to slow down in India. The festival season, which includes Durga Puja and Diwali where large groups of Indians gather, did not lead...

Europe is in the grip of a potentially devastating fourth coronavirus wave and the United States has now recorded more Covid-19 deaths in 2021 than it did in 2020, heightening alarm among public health...

The government of the United Kingdom threw out more than 600,000 doses of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine in August after they expired unused, a revelation that came as billions of people in...

"Mental health issues have always been stigmatized in our society and with the rampant spread of the virus, the situation has just amplified for the worse," says Arouba Kabir,...

Reuters on Tuesday reported that three Indian scientists of an advisory group on Covid-19 vaccination did not back the Union Government’s decision last month to double the interval between two...