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Coronavirus LIVE updates: The women, who returned from the UK to Delhi and then arrived in Andhra Pradesh on a special train after escaping from an isolation facility, tested positive for the UK strain of coronavirus, said Katamneni Bhaskar, Commissioner State Health and Family Welfare Department. Other states have stepped …

CHENNAI: At the climax of his 2002 flop ‘Baba’, Rajinikanth makes a last minute return from sanyaas to socio-political life. On Tuesday, the actor did a virtual replay of the theme, this time in reverse, returning to his promise to launch a political party. “I regret to announce that I …

NEW DELHI: The new UK variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which is 70% more transmissible, has been detected in India with at least seven returnees from the country, including a 2-year-old girl, who tested positive for the mutant variant, the government said Tuesday even as it assured the vaccines under …

Aislinn Laing, Reuters senior correspondent, gives a blood sample at a medical facility before receiving a dose of vaccine or placebo from Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine clinical trial in the Colina area, Santiago, Chile, on November 20, 2020. Picture taken on November 20, 2020. REUTERS / Ivan Alvarado The …

A total of six people who returned to India from the UK have tested positive for the new strain of coronavirus discovered there, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) said in a statement on Tuesday. Of these, the ministry said, three samples tested positive in Bengaluru, two …

The scale of the Covid-19 outbreak in Wuhan earlier this year may have been nearly 10 times larger than the recorded count, a study by China’s public health authorities indicates, leaving the city where the coronavirus took hold. the first time still well below the immunity required to protect against …

WASHINGTON: Experts think so, but they are working to confirm it. A variant of the coronavirus in the UK has caused alarm about the possibility of it spreading more easily. But even if that turns out to be true, experts say that the Covid-19 vaccines that are being rolled out …

NEW DELHI: Standard defense mechanisms such as masks, sanitation and physical distancing will work to contain the coronavirus strain detected in six people who came from the UK, scientists said Tuesday, ensuring that the mutant strain is not clinically more serious and there is no need to worry. The Union …

Superstar Rajinikanth, on Tuesday, announced that he will not indulge in electoral politics and will continue to serve the people from outside the political arena. Speculation that lasted nearly 30 years came to a thunderous end on Tuesday when superstar Rajinikanth finally announced that she will not enter electoral politics. …

NEW DELHI: All international passengers who arrived in India on December 9-22 and tested positive for Covid-19 will undergo genome sequencing as part of the Center’s strategy to detect the mutated coronavirus strain that has emerged in the UK recently. Others will be followed by state and district surveillance officers, …