New Coronavirus Strain

Coronavirus News Updates: COVID-19 cases in Andhra Pradesh cross 8.81 lakh; vaccine distribution dry run in Krishna district tomorrow

Coronavirus News Updates: State Health Commissioner Katamaneni Bhaskar said the dry run is aimed at testing the planned operations and the laid out mechanisms for COVID-19 vaccination in the state

Coronavirus News Updates: COVID-19 expert panel recommends emergency use authorisation for Bharat Biotech's COVAXIN

Coronavirus News LIVE Updates: Covaxin has been indigenously developed by Bharat Biotech in collaboration with the ICMR

Coronavirus News Updates: Delhi Metro shuts Khan Market, three other station gates to manage crowd on New Year's Day

Coronavirus News LIVE Updates: "Exit gates of Khan Market, Supreme Court, Central Secretariat and Mandi House are closed. Entry and interchange is permitted at these stations," the DMRC tweeted

COVID-19 outbreak: WHO approves Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine for emergency use

WHO said the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was the first to receive its 'emergency validation' since the novel coronavirus first broke out in China a year ago

Coronavirus News Updates: Schools in Kerala to partially re-open for Classes 10, 12 tomorrow

Coronavirus News Updates: In its guidelines, the General Education Department has directed that only 50 percent of students be allowed at a time in schools and that classes be arranged as one student per bench in the first week.

Coronavirus News Updates: Odisha prohibits New Year celebrations, allows reopening of cinema, theatre halls from 1 Jan

Coronavirus News Updates: Cinema hall, theatres have been allowed to reopen with up to 50 percent capacity and social, religious, sports and cultural functions and gatherings will be allowed with a ceiling of 200 people, said an order

Coronavirus News Updates: Schools, colleges in Mumbai to remain shut till 15 Jan, says BMC

Coronavirus News Updates: The decision was taken due to the second wave of COVID-19 in other countries and the situation in some states in India, the civic body said in a circular

India detects six cases of new COVID-19 variant after UK returnees test positive

Three of the patients are in NIMHANS, Bengaluru, two in Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology, Hyderabad and one in National Institute of Virology, Pune, said the health ministry

Public health expert says India's COVID-19 vaccines could work against new strain, but people must be vigilant

Reddy, however, said that unlike the more widespread strain, the new variant 'may be more infectious to young people'

Coronavirus News Updates: One UK returnee tests positive in Maharashtra's Thane; 355 new cases reported in district

Coronavirus News LIVE Updates: As many as 55 people have returned to the areas under KDMC limits from the UK from 25 November onwards, the civic body said