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Omicron News Updates: Schools across Maharashtra to reopen for all classes from 24 Jan, says Varsha Gaikwad
Fp Staff • 3 years agoOmicron News LIVE Updates: The decision comes in the wake of cases rising across the state, 43,697 cases on Wednesday, and ebbing in the city of Mumbai
Omicron News LIVE Updates: Govt panel recommends market approval for Covaxin, Covishield but with conditions
Fp Staff • 3 years agoOmicron News LIVE Updates: The recommendations will be sent to the Drugs Controller General of India for final approval. Covishield and Covaxin were granted emergency use authorisation on 3 January, 2021
Karnataka and Telangana colleges witness COVID-19 clusters amid new threat of Omicron
Fp Staff • 3 years agoIn Karnataka, 59 students and 10 staff at the Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya in Chikkamagaluru district have tested positive
From patient zero in China to over 255 crore cases worldwide: Timeline of the deadly COVID-19 pandemic
Fp Staff • 3 years agoThe origins of the pandemic can be traced back to 17 November 2019 when a 55-year-old man contracted the virus from a wet market in Hubei province
Half of COVID-19 survivors experience lingering symptoms six months after recovery, finds study
• 3 years agoThe study, published in the journal JAMA Network Open, reviewed 57 reports that included data from 250,351 unvaccinated adults and children who were diagnosed with COVID-19 from December 2019 through March 2021
Scientists develop Covid vaccine using viruses from plants, bacteria that doesn't need refrigeration
• 3 years agoThe researchers created two COVID-19 vaccine candidates. One is made from a plant virus, called cowpea mosaic virus. The other is developed from a bacterial virus, or bacteriophage called Q beta.
India reports lowest COVID-19 fatalities in 167 days, fatality rate dips to 1.33%
Fp Staff • 4 years agoThe active cases have declined to 4,04,874 comprising 1.23 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded at 97.44 per cent, the ministry said.
US averaging over one lakh new COVID-19 infections a day; hospitalisations up by 500%
• 4 years agoThe influx of patients is straining hospitals and pushing health care workers to the brink as deaths have risen to an average of more than 1,000 a day for the first time since March
Life after COVID: Study shows symptoms persist in half of hospitalised patients even after a year
• 4 years agoThe Lancet study shows that fatigue or muscle weakness was the most commonly reported symptom with around half of patients experiencing it at six months and one in five at one year
Home ministry asks states to act against 'blatant violation' of COVID-19 norms in hill stations, markets
• 4 years agoAny establishment and markets where COVID-appropriate behaviour is not being followed is liable for the re-imposition of restrictions, Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla said