The Union health ministry on Thursday alerted all states to a 58 per cent rise in the national average daily new Covid-19 cases over the past week amid uncertainty over what is driving the upsurge and...

We all know a few of those lucky people who, somehow, have managed to avoid ever catching COVID. Perhaps you're one of them. Is this a Marvel-esque superpower? Is there any scientific reason why a...

A global vaccine development coalition has decided to fund an India-Australia-Switzerland  research consortium to create a novel so-called “variant-proof” coronavirus vaccine for broa...

Scientists in Calcutta and Kalyani have generated fresh evidence for the idea circulating in medical circles for months that fluvastatin, a drug used to lower cholesterol, might also work against SARS...

A central government research consortium tasked with sequencing coronavirus variants nationwide has consistently delayed data release for scientific scrutiny and provided patchy data to its own scient...

Even as genome scientists analyse the role of recombinant coronavirus variants in the recent increase in Covid cases in parts of India, senior public health experts and doctors have opined that the in...

Scientists have for the first time traced the step-by-step chronological evolution of an inconspicuous SARS-CoV-2 strain into a variant with 50 per cent mutations shared by omicron over seven months i...

The researchers who have estimated the potential benefits of face masks in the US population at 70 to 90 per cent vaccination coverage said their results may apply to other countries, providing estima...

A global vaccine development coalition has agreed to fund an Indian academic-industry research effort to develop a broad-acting vaccine against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, and other cl...

Indian scientists have identified a naturally-occurring biochemical in the human body as a potential broad-acting antiviral agent that could serve as a shield against multiple viruses, including influ...