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Latest news on coronavirus: Even as the Union Home Office has issued unlocking guidelines, several states decided on Friday to impose a night curfew or Section 144 in certain cities to control coronavirus cases. The move was taken as these states witnessed an increase in covid cases shortly after Diwali …

Britain’s Health Minister Matt Hancock said on Friday that the health service is implementing plans for the coronavirus vaccination program, as it hopes to start Covid-19 vaccines before Christmas. Praising news coming from major coronavirus vaccination studies in the US and UK, Hancock has said that there are encouraging signs …

Anil Vij receives a test dose of Covaxin in Ambala hospital | Photo credit: ANI Key points The third phase of the Covaxin trial has started in Haryana as of today. It is the largest clinical trial conducted for a COVID-19 vaccine in India. Ambala: Haryana’s Health Minister Anil Vij …

New Delhi: In the wake of the increase in COVID-19 cases in the national capital, the Maharashtra government led by Uddhav Thackeray plans to halt flights from Delhi to Mumbai. Furthermore, train services between the two metropolitan cities could also be suspended. Also read: Tina Dabi, Athar Khan file for …

Friday was an important day in the global fight against Covid-19. The day was held an informal meeting of the Council for Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) of the World Trade Organization (WTO) to discuss a proposal made by India and South Africa in October, and that since …

Pfizer Inc applied to US health regulators on Friday for emergency use authorization (EUA) of its Covid-19 vaccine, the first application of its kind in an important step to provide protection against the novel coronavirus. The application to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) comes just days after Pfizer …

NEW DELHI: The Ministry of Labor notified draft rules under the Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code (OSHWC), 2020, inviting interested parties to submit objections and suggestions within 45 days. Key provisions of the code include limiting the maximum number of working hours per day to 12 hours, with a …

On Wednesday, New York City decided to close its public schools beginning Thursday after the city achieved a positivity rate (seven-day average) of 3%. This is one of the lowest bars in the US, but given New York’s debilitating first brush with the pandemic in March and April, perhaps it …

The world may be in the “last big wave” of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic and the fight to stop the infectious disease that haunts the world could start to end sometime next year, top leaders said. health experts Thursday at the 18th Hindustan Times Leadership Summit. The pandemic will …

Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a meeting on Friday to review India’s vaccination strategy in which issues such as prioritization of population groups and the technological platform for the deployment of the vaccine for the coronavirus were discussed. Modi tweeted that the meeting discussed important topics related to the progress …