The state government will conduct Covid tests of 700 passengers and crew members of three Air India flights from London that arrived in Calcutta since November 30, after the mutated strain of coronavi...

As the year limps to its close — not with a bang, but a whimper — and the scale and extent of the devastation caused by the SARS-Cov-2 virus gradually become apparent, even as the first va...

Most people alive today are unlikely to have experienced a single year resembling 2020, both for the rapid spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the response to it worldwide. On the last day of last year...

Three public health bodies on Monday called on government authorities to refrain from unbridled scaling up of tests for the new coronavirus and introduce pragmatic and targeted testing to conserve res...

Immune memory cells that emerge from exposure to some common cold viruses also recognise SARS-CoV-2, the microbe that causes the coronavirus disease, scientists have discovered and speculate that this...

You are 21 years old, going on 22. Three years ago, and a bit, you finished your final board exams, with a result that was neither terribly exciting, nor too disappointing, and then you got admission ...

Soon after the novel coronavirus outbreak, scientists identified an alteration in the virus’s RNA sequence.Compared to other coronaviruses, this alteration helps the novel coronavirus (nCoV or more ...

Pharma giant Gilead’s antiviral drug remdesivir has won US regulatory approval for emergency use in patients that are severely ill from Covid-19 but the drug, which flunked as a treatment for hepati...

Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IITG) on Wednesday said it has joined hands with Ahmedabad-based Hester Biosciences to develop a vaccine for Covid-19 and animal trials are likely to start by ...

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari has grabbed headlines with his controversial assertion that Covid-19 was caused not by a natural virus but one that was manufactured in a Chinese laboratory. Gadkari’s c...