COVID-19: India records 15,590 fresh cases

The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 1,01,62,738 pushing the national COVID-19 recovery rate to 96.53 per c...

BBMP identifies 760 COVID-19 vaccination sites

Civic agency Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has identified 760 Covid-19 vaccination sites to inoculate 150,000 healthcare worker...

Covid-19: Vaccinations in Delhi to start at 89 booths

“The first batch of 254,500 doses of Covishield and 20,000 doses of Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin have reached Delhi so far,” a government offic...

COVID-19: India records 15,968 new cases

The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 1,01,29,111 pushing the national COVID-19 recovery rate to 96.51 per c...

Government will administer COVID-19 vaccine free of cost to people: Puducherry CM

In the second phase, field staff engaged in carrying out Covid control programme would be vaccinated and it would cover those from police, ...

COVID-19: No sashtang pranam, only namaste in Gujarat temples

Carrying 'prasad' (offerings) inside the sanctum sanctorum is also not allowed in line with the standard operating protocol of the state go...

COVID-19: Schools, colleges reopen in Gujarat after 9 months

Various state ministers and BJP MLAs remained present at different schools in Gujarat to welcome the students, a release from the state gov...

AIBEA demands inclusion of bankers in priority category for COVID-19 vaccination

Last month, all four bank officer unions demanded for inclusion of bankers as frontline COVID-19 warriors so that they can be administered ...

COVID-19: Active cases account for 2.16% of total caseload in India

The steady fall in the number of fresh COVID-19 cases in the country has ensured the contraction of its active caseload, which stands at 2,...

Seek Centre's help for free COVID-19 vaccine in Maharashtra: Devendra Fadnavis

The Leader of Opposition in the assembly said the MVA government should seek the Centre's help to provide free doses to the poor and middle...

SC expresses concern over large gathering of farmers during COVID-19

"The same problem is going to arise in farmers' agitation. I do not know if farmers are protected from COVID. So, the same problem is going...

Mayawati welcomes approval for COVID-19 vaccine

Regulator on Sunday approved Oxford COVID-19 vaccine Covishield, manufactured by the Serum Institute, and indigenously developed Covaxin of...

Dry run for COVID-19 vaccination held in Kerala

In the first phase, government and private sector health workers, medical students and Asha and Anganwadi workers would be among those who ...

Dry run for COVID-19 vaccination begins in Delhi

"Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital, Shahdara, Urban Primary Health Centre, Daryaganj, and Venkateshwar Hospital, Dwarka, are the three sites in Del...

COVID-19: Night curfew in Odisha on December 31

However, all essential services will be allowed during the curfew hours, state officials said.

Government funding for Covid-19 vaccine questioned

“At this stage in India, when ‘R0’ has come down to below one in all states then the epidemic in India is self-limiting in that sense...so,...

Covid-19 cases in Tamil Nadu dip further

The number of deaths in Tamil Nadu remained at 12 for the second day in a row, pushing the death toll in the State to 12,036.