The second is the government’s decision to switch over to antigen tests for health workers engaged for Covid duty. The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has already mentioned that this ...

Coronavirus cases in Odisha crossed the 10,000 mark on Tuesday with the single-day high of 571 cases. The state’s Covid-19 count stands at 10,097 positive cases and 42 deaths. The Covid-19 posi...

Doctors are seeing a steady stream of patients, mostly young men, arrive clutching their chests, convinced they are going to die of Covid-19, a heart attack or both. They have no risk factors, no life...

Alarmed at China’s stranglehold over supplies of masks, gowns, test kits and other front-line weapons for battling the coronavirus, countries around the world have set up their own factories to ...

A national scientific body on Sunday warned that shortcuts in vaccine development could compromise scientific rigour, amid public concerns that Indian researchers are under pressure to produce a vacci...

Susan Miller, a leading astrologer in the United States of America, had predicted in January that 2020 would “be a great... and... prosperous year,” going on to add that Capricorn would be...

The concept of containment zones has been changed. In the new concept, the house or flat of a patient will be called isolation unit and the surrounding areas will be declared free zones. There have b...

Dozens of clinical trials registered on an American database and listing India among their sites for enrolment of patients are missing from India’s own database of trials, a study has revealed, ...

The Odisha government on Thursday decided to restrict the entry of visitors to the Lok Seva Bhavan (state secretariat) and other important government buildings like the Krushi Bhavan till July 31. Th...

Bengal on Thursday went past the landmark of total 5 lakh Covid-19 tests with 10,405 tests in 24 hours and became the seventh state to reach the figure. It took 44 days for Bengal to attain the tally...