Covid Infections

As China gives up ‘Zero Covid’ policy, deaths predicted to top 2 million in ‘winter wave’ of infections

China is rapidly abandoning the mass testing, lockdowns and centralized quarantine that defined the stringent, three-year-old policy

Contagion 2022: China's struggles to bring down COVID

While the world is recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic, China seems to be stuck in a nightmarish loop. On Thursday, the country reported 32,943 new infections, as lockdowns and mass testing continue

China's COVID Conundrum: Why the virus is showing no signs of slowing down

China reported 31,454 fresh coronavirus cases, as per the official data on Thursday. This is the highest daily figure since the virus was detected in Wuhan in 2019. Despite a strict zero-COVID policy, why has the country not been able to stop the surge?

Vaccine-resistant new COVID-like virus discovered in Russian bats could infect humans, finds study

A team led by researchers at Washington State University, US, found spike proteins from the bat virus, named Khosta-2, can infect human cells and is resistant to both the antibody therapies and blood serum from people vaccinated forS-CoV-2

India reports 2,827 new COVID-19 cases in last 24 hrs; active infections dip to 19,067

The coronavirus death toll climbed to 5,24,181 with 24 fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated

COVID-19: Active cases in India decline to 1,48,359; daily positivity rate stands at 1.22%

The active cases comprise 0.35 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate has further improved to 98.46 per cent, the ministry said