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President Biden puts forth virus strategy, requires mask use to travel

President Joe Biden is putting forth a national COVID-19 strategy to ramp up vaccinations and testing, reopen schools and businesses and increase the use of masks

Expecting a rebound in health services soon, says Ayushman Bharat CEO

Ayushman Bharat or Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Scheme, the government's national healthcare programme, recently crossed 15 million hospitalisation mark

Coronavirus LIVE updates: Maharashtra's Covid-19 tally hits 2-million mark

Coronavirus live updates: India has given the first dose of covid antidote to almost 800,000 beneficiaries five days into the nation-wide vaccination drive

Elected representatives above 50 yrs likely to be vaccinated in next round

Over three crore healthcare and frontline workers are to be vaccinated in the first round

Andhra Pradesh records no coronavirus deaths for second day in a row

139 fresh cases and 254 recoveries were registered in 24 hours ending 9 am on Thursday

People more likely to follow Covid rules when friends and family do: Study

The study that shows how social influence affects adherence to government interventions

Fire at Serum Institute building in Pune; vaccine output not hit: Report

SII is manufacturing a vaccine developed by Oxford University and US drugmaker AstraZeneca

92 countries approach vaccine giant India for locally made Covid-19 shots

This bolsters New Delhi's credentials as the vaccine hub of the world

World Coronavirus Dispatch: Vietnam gets a once-in-a-generation break

Independent panel critical of sluggish WHO response, Hong Kong plans 14-day quarantine for air crew, the troubling pattern of mutating coronavirus, and other-pandemic related news across the globe

No headway at police-farmers meeting over tractor rally on Republic Day

The farmers stuck to their demand of taking out the rally on Delhi's busy Outer Ring Road

India's gift of one million Covishield vaccines arrives in Nepal

India is gifting vaccines to some of its neighbors free of cost

New online tool can calculate Covid transmission in poor ventilation

Researchers have developed a new online tool that can calculate the risk of Covid-19 transmission in poorly-ventilated places

India Coronavirus Dispatch: Private market to see a long wait for vaccines

Thousands skip vaccination, the need to think global for vaccines, a look at how the pandemic affected women's work in Delhi, and more-news relevant to India's fight against Covid-19

DATA STORY: India's Covid vaccination now at 7.6% of tally; 0.06% population inoculated

India on Wednesday conducted 780,835 coronavirus tests to take the total count of tests conducted so far in the country to 189,347,782. The test positivity rate recorded was 1.9%

Japan to receive Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine for 72 million people within 2021

The government hopes majority of the adults will be vaccinated by July, when the Olympic Games are slated to open

Covid-19: India records 15,223 new cases, death toll mounts to 1,52,869

According to the ICMR, 18,93,47,782 samples have been tested up to January 20 with 7,80,835 samples being tested on Wednesday

Amazon offers to help US with vaccine efforts in letter to President Biden

The world's largest online retailer has an agreement with a healthcare provider to administer vaccines at its facilities

Global Covid-19 cases top 96.8 mn, toll at 2.07 million: Johns Hopkins

The US is the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 24,432,807 and 406,001, respectively, according to the CSSE

SII's Covishield vaccine to be dispatched to Kathmandu, Dhaka today

With a population of nearly 30 million, the Government of Nepal plans to inoculate 72 percent of its citizens

Amazon offers to help US with vaccine in letter to President Biden

The world's largest online retailer has an agreement with a healthcare provider to administer vaccines at its facilities, Dave Clark, chief executive of Amazon's worldwide consumer business said