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New Delhi : India reported less than 1,000 new Covid-19 cases for the first time in 715 days and the active caseload fell below 13,000, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Monday. A total of 913 fresh Covid cases were…

London : A team of scientists at the Imperial College London deliberately infected more than three-dozen healthy adults with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, to see how the infection works in the human body and makes people sick.…

New Delhi : The sudden lifting of Covid-19 Appropriate Behaviour and other related restrictions are not good as the pandemic is not yet over, Dr Sunila Garg, Member Lancet Commission and Covid-19 Task Force said on Saturday."Mask mandates…

Moscow : The Russian Health Ministry has registered the nasal version of its Covid-19 jab, Sputnik V, which is said to be the world's first nasal vaccine against the virus."Russian Health Ministry registers the nasal version of Sputnik V,…

New Delhi : In the last 24 hours, India reported 1,260 new Covid-19 cases and 83 deaths, the Union Health Ministry said on Saturday.The new fatalities increased the nationwide death toll to 5,21,264.Amid a continuous downward trend, India's…

Seoul : South Korea's new daily Covid-19 cases remained below 300,000 for the second consecutive day on Saturday as the Omicron variant was spreading at a slower pace after peaking out in March.The country reported 264,171 new Covid-19…

Ottawa : Border measures eased in Canada on Friday as fully vaccinated travellers no longer need pre-arrival Covid-19 testing to enter the country either by land or air.Vaccinated people could still be subject to random molecular tests when…

Washington : The global coronavirus caseload has topped 488.3 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 6.14 million and vaccinations to over 10.88 billion, according to the Johns Hopkins University.In its latest update on Friday…

New York : Vaccination of 5 to 11-year-olds reduced hospitalisations with Covid-19 by more than two thirds during the Omicron surge and also protected against severe illness, according to a new study.The Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine for…

Geneva : Even as some high-income countries have rolled out fourth and fifth Covid vaccine doses, one-third of the world's population is yet to receive a single dose, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom…