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India was one of the first countries to adopt a “flexible” lockdown approach and thus managed to keep death rates from COVID-19 relatively low, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said at the launch of the Annual Meeting of Large Challenges, organized by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The three-day program …

The head of the National Group of Experts on Vaccine Administration for COVID-19 emphasized the appropriate behavior of COVID-19 during the festival season and winter months. The number of new coronavirus cases and deaths has declined in the past three weeks as the spread of the pandemic has leveled off …

Modi also warned against any complacency in the face of the decline and called for continued efforts to contain the pandemic. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that every step in the logistics, delivery and administration of the COVID-19 vaccine must be rigorously implemented and must include advanced planning of …

Harsh Vardhan said that “the authorization of emergency use for the COVID-19 vaccine will depend on data from clinical trials.” Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said on Sunday that his ministry will soon launch the FELUDA paper strip test for the diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2. This has been developed by CSIR-IGIB …

NEW DELHI: India became the second country after the United States to cross seven million confirmed cases of Covid-19 on Saturday. It also recorded its six million recovery on the day and the ninth consecutive day of decline in active cases. Daily cases have remained below the 80,000 mark for …

Up to 18 states and Union Territories have recorded recovery rates above the national average, the ministry said. Active COVID-19 cases in India stayed below the nine lakh mark for the second day in a row and now constitute only 12.65 percent of the total number of cases, the Union …

India may be heading towards the seven million mark in terms of the number of cases of coronavirus disease (Covid-19), but the daily count has been slowly declining. And in other good news, the number of active cases in the country has dropped below the nine lakh mark for the …

The man traveling from Karaikudi to Chennai on the Pallavan Express was outraged at the alleged sale of pongal for 80 rupees. The Southern Railway suffered a shock Sunday after an elderly passenger posted an angry video questioning the price of ready-to-eat goods delivered on the train. The man, who …

NEW DELHI: The drop in the national R-value, which indicates the likely number of people a Covid-positive person can infect, down from 1 in the past week in five high-burden states helped moderate the curve of active infections from India, but the durability of gains depends on continued progress in …

The number of active Covid-19 cases in Mumbai has soared by more than 20% in the last fortnight, from 18,299 cases on August 21 to 22,222 on Friday. Active cases are calculated by deducting the number of discharged patients and the number of deaths from the total number of Covid-19 …