A man on a scooter without a mask was stopped by a traffic cop on Brabourne Road in northwest Kolkata. When asked why his face was uncovered, he said: “Why should I answer you?” The cop fi...

  With 2,82,970 new coronavirus infections being reported in a day, India's total tally of COVID-19 cases rose to 3,79,01,241, which includes 8,961 cases of the Omicron variant, according to...

The Delhi government deployed senior nursing officers from public hospitals as nodal officers to monitor the management of Covid patients and vaccination at private facilities. Government hospitals h...

The number of Covid deaths has risen in the last fortnight but doctors and public health experts said most of the patients died because of other ailments and not any critical condition resulting from ...

According to the state government’s rule, weddings are allowed amid the current surge in Covid cases but the number of guests cannot exceed 200 or 50 per cent of the venue’s capacity, whic...

Several hospitals in Kolkata are witnessing a marginal dip in admission of Covid patients over the last few days but doctors warned that it was too early to say the current wave of infections has star...

Mousami Mohanty lost her husband Abhisekh Mohapatra to Covid a few months after their wedding last year. On Monday, Mousami settled an account. Mousami, 24, the daughter of a peon in a government off...

A mix of narrower targeted Covid-19 testing, home-based self-testing kits and large cities approaching epidemic peaks might explain falling counts of daily new infections nationwide, doctors and healt...

Research findings released on Tuesday have suggested that an omicron infection in fully vaccinated people effectively induces immunity against itself and enhances protection against other coronavirus ...

Bengal on Tuesday reported 10,430 Covid-19 cases, including 2,205 from Calcutta. In 24 hours till 9am on Tuesday, the state also logged 13,308 recoveries and 34 deaths, resulting in a drop in the tot...