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Amid Covid, work from home hurting back and neck; people seek medical help

With work from home becoming the new normal amid pandemic, many people have started complaining of neck pain and backache while working for long hours and are seeking help from physiotherapists

Coronavirus LIVE: 3,714 new cases take Delhi tally to over 256,000

Coronavirus India update: Maharashtra has 1,242,770 coronavirus cases, Andhra Pradesh 639,302, Tamil Nadu 552,674, Karnataka 533,850, and UP 364,543. Stay tuned for coronavirus India LIVE update

Meghalaya coronavirus update: 4 more Covid-19 deaths, 170 new cases

Four people died of Covid-19 in Meghalaya on Wednesday, pushing the death toll in the state to 42, a senior health official said.

Karnataka coroanvirus update: Covid tally crosses 540,000 with 6,997 cases

With 6,997 new cases across the state, Karnataka's Covid-19 tally touched 5,40,847 on Wednesday while active cases rose to 94,652

4 Lucknow hospitals get notice for violating coroonavirus protocol

Four private hospitals were issued notices on Wednesday for alleged non-adherence to Covid protocols after the recent deaths of 48 coronavirus patients

China knew all along how virulent coronavirus was, says Mike Pompeo

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday said that the Chinese Communist Party knew how virulent Covid-19 that originated in Wuhan was

Microsoft develops 'virtual commute' for remote workers amid Covid-19

Pandemic-related burnout and difficulty separating work and personal life has become a surprisingly common concern among Microsoft's corporate customers, said Chief Marketing Officer Chris Capossela

Covid-19: Bengal govt extends austerity measures till March 2021

The West Bengal government has decided to extend the period of austerity measures taken to meet the expenditure for tackling the coronavirus pandemic from this September to March 31 next year

India's Covid diplomacy: US to Russia, Delhi part of every vaccine alliance

India is party to Sputnik-V, the vaccine under development jointly by Russia's Gamaleya National Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology and Indian pharma company Dr Reddy's Laboratories

Bharat Biotech aims at billion Covaxin doses a year, phase-3 trials in Oct

Firm also ties up with Washington University's school of medicine for intransal vaccine for Covid-19

UK working on potential 'human challenge' trials of Covid-19 vaccine

'We are working with partners to understand how we might collaborate on the potential development of a Covid-19 vaccine through human challenge studies,' a government spokeswoman said

Johnson & Johnson kicks off giant study of single shot Covid-19 vaccine

J&J became the fourth vaccine maker to move its candidate into late-stage human studies in the US

Gujarat sees 1,372 new Covid cases, 15 deaths; infection count at 127,541

Gujarat on Wednesday saw 1,372 new coronavirus cases, taking its tally to 127,541, while the death toll rose to 3,370 as 15 more patients succumbed.

PM Modi hails Adityanath for measures taken to tackle Covid-19 in UP

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath came in for praise from Prime Minister Modi on Wednesday for the measures taken by the government to tackle Covid-19

Saudi Arabia suspends flights to and from India amid surge in Covid cases

Saudi Arabia and the UAE host a significant Indian migrant population.

Indian-origin academic leads criticism of UK's Covid-19 lockdown approach

A prominent Indian-origin Oxford University academic leads a group of over 30 academics who have expressed their doubts over the UK government's localised and national lockdown approach

States can use 50% of SDRF for Covid-19 pandemic: PM Narendra Modi to CMs

There was a cap of 35% earlier; in meeting with chief ministers, PM says focus should be on micro-containment zones

Missing TB patients reduced to less than 0.5 million in 2019: Vardhan

Health Minister Harsh Vardhan asserted that India has accorded high priority to ending tuberculosis by 2025

UP govt allows phase-III trial of Covaxin in Lucknow and Gorakhpur

The Uttar Pradesh Government on Wednesday allowed the phase-3 trial of anti-COVID-19 vaccine ''Covaxin'' in Lucknow and Gorakhpur.

Manish Sisodia admitted to LNJP Hospital after testing Covid-19 positive

Sisodia had said on September 14 that he has been tested positive for novel coronavirus and had isolated himself.