Covid 19 Updates  

The state government and Mumbai's municipal body, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation have made it clear that they are not in favour of another lockdown in the financial capital.

From March 1, people above the age of 60 and those above the age of 45 with comorbidities will be able to get access to vaccines.

People travelling on flights and trains will have to show a negative RT-PCR test before they start their journey.

Reminding the government that the pandemic is far from over, Rahul alleged that government is being grossly negligent and overconfident about Covid-19.

The Serum Institute of India has officially received the purchase order from the government for Covid-19 vaccines. 

The new strain of Coronavirus has triggered fresh wave of anxiety and fresh cases in United Kingdom and beyond. A week since it was first identified, the new strain is already responsible for 60 percent of the cases in the country.

India's trajectory of active cases continued to follow a steadily dipping path on Sunday with the active caseload dropping to 3,05,344. This has been made possible by the trend of recoveries exceeding new cases and low number of fatalities per day which have ensured a total net reduction of the active caseload.

A nurse in Chattanooga, Tennessee created a flutter after she fainted shortly after receiving a dose of Pfizer-BioNTech's Covid-19 vaccine.

India's first indigenous mRNA vaccine candidate has received approval from the Drugs Controller General of India to initiate Phase I/II human clinical trial. 

Heads of Missions from 64 countries are visiting the Bharat Biotech and Biological E Limited in Hyderabad to review the vaccine manufacturing hub. 

The Serum Institute of India has become the first Indian company to seek emergency use authorization for the Oxford Covid vaccine in India.

The resident doctors say the BS Yediyurappa government needs to wake up soon and consider the issues raised by them seriously.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced that India is just weeks away from a Covid-19 vaccine. He made this announcement at an all-party meeting with the floor leaders of all political parties of the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha to discuss the Covid-19 situation in the country and vaccine development. 

Even as Covid-19 vaccine development progresses in leaps and bounds, questions are being raised about the efficacy of these medicines. Dr Sanjay Gupta, CNN's Chief Medical Correspondent and Associate Professor of Neurosurgery at the Emory University Hospital, took to Twitter to clear the air surrounding the vaccines. Read on...

Interpol has issued a global alert to law enforcement across its 194 member countries warning them to prepare for organized crime networks targeting COVID-19 vaccines, both physically and online.