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Healthcare workers collect a nasal swab sample to test for Covid-19 in Hyderabad, on Sept.17, 2020. (AP Photo / Mahesh Kumar A.) Recovery rate is the wrong metric to focus on and essentially diverts attention from the more than 1 million active cases that are still growing, albeit at a …

Minister of School Education KA Sengottaiyan. The Tamil Nadu government ruled out shift classes when schools reopen across the state and said all classes would start operating simultaneously. Hinting that there will be no gradual reopening, state education minister KA Sengottaiyan said schools in Tamil Nadu will open simultaneously once …

The phase III human clinical trial of the Covid-19 vaccine being developed by the University of Oxford and manufactured by the Serum Institute of India (SII), began at the state-run Sassoon General Hospital here in Maharashtra, El Monday, a senior official said. . “We have started phase III trials of …

NEW DELHI: India ranks first in the world in terms of total Covid-19 recoveries, with the country accounting for 19 percent of total global recoveries, the Union Health Ministry said on Tuesday. Meanwhile, for the first time in at least four months into the pandemic, weekly Covid-19 cases in India …

The stock market came under heavy selling pressure in the last hour of Monday’s session, with benchmark indices falling more than 2 percent. The volatility index, India VIX, rose 13 percent to levels of 22.6, indicating greater volatility in the market. The S&P BSE Sensex fell 812 points to nearly …

National benchmarks witnessed a widespread sell-off in Monday afternoon trading amid weak global signals. The sell-off was triggered after the International Consortium for Investigative Journalism (ICIJ) reported reports of suspicious activity, or top-secret SARs, valued at more than $ 2 trillion globally. These transactions are not absolute proof of fraud …

Schools partially reopened in various places in India on a voluntary basis for the first time since they were closed as part of sweeping measures taken in March to enforce social distancing and control the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic that has raged around. of 88,000 lives in the country. …

Taj Mahal, the 17th-century architectural marvel, closed since March 17 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, opened to the public on Monday. About 160 tickets were booked online, but the first to enter was a tourist from Taiwan who stayed in India, authorities said. A maximum of 5,000 visitors in two …

Here’s what states have decided on reopening schools Tamil nadu The Tamil Nadu government ruled out shift classes when schools reopen across the state and said all classes would start operating simultaneously. Hinting that there will be no gradual reopening, state education minister KA Sengottaiyan said schools in Tamil Nadu …

The annual flu season has started in Delhi, northwestern India, and the northern plains. Several in the HT newsroom fell ill with the flu last week, not the coronavirus disease (Covid-19; they tested negative), but the seasonal flu that makes its presence felt at this time of year. Some of …