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India Coronavirus Dispatch: Challenges in claiming death insurance

Cases growing fastest in India, how vaccine nationalism threatens to block recovery, and how schools can make up for the lost time-roundup of news on how India is dealing with the pandemic.

Centre relaxes norms for employees who could not join work due to lockdown

It said that curtailment of a sanctioned leave may not be agreed to in case the leave of government servants expired during the lockdown period

World Coronavirus Dispatch: Pathogen may have long been unnoticed in bats

Europe's second largest bank post $13 bn loss, Moderna pitches vaccine at $50-$60 per course, fresh threat in Pakistan as people travel for Eid and other pandemic-related news across the globe

What will coronavirus pandemic look like to geologists in the far future?

The pandemic won't leave a direct record of the viruses for geologists of the far future to investigate, as viruses don't fossilise

Rajasthan Guv cancels Independence Day event; cites rising Covid-19 cases

Governor Kalraj Mishra, in a statement, expressed concern over the Covid-19 pandemic

Asian Development Bank approves Rs 22-cr grant to India to combat Covid-19

The grant will be used to procure thermal scanners and essential commodities to strengthen the India's Covid-19 response

EU health chief blames public 'complacency, laxity' for new Covid-19 cases

EU health commissioner says there's concern over an upswing of new Covid-19 cases in several European countries caused primarily by complacency and laxity among the public

Majority in India against reopening halls, flights due to Covid-19: Survey

The survey showed that 72 per cent of 34,000 people across 255 districts in the country are in favour of not visiting multiplexes in the next 60 days as they feel it will be risky, while only six per

Separate beds, wards: How Covid-19 suspects are treated at hospitals

Initially, there were reports that dedicated facilities were allegedly not allowing suspected Covid-19 patients but later the government asked hospitals to attend to them as well

Delinking hotels from hospitals as Covid-19 situation improving: Kejriwal

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government had attached around 40 hotels to hospitals to increase the bed capacity in the city

Hetero launches generic Covid-19 drug 'Favivir' at Rs 59 per tablet

It improves treatment accessibility to a significant amount of Covid-19 patient population, which have mild to moderate symptoms,Hetero said

With 48,000 fresh cases, India's coronavirus tally crosses 1.5 million-mark

India on Wednesday went past the psychological 1.5 million- mark and registered 48,513 fresh novel coronavirus cases and 768 new deaths

Moderna's vaccine candidate triggers Covid-19 immunity response in monkeys

The candidate vaccine, mRNA-1273, has been co-developed by scientists at Moderna and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in the US

Ensure strict compliance of Covid-19 test guidelines: Kejriwal to officers

According to the Delhi health bulletin, 13,701 antigen tests were conducted on July 28 while 4,843 RT-PCR tests were done on that day

Covid updates: India tally crosses 1.5 million mark; 'Suraksha' to sanitise

Global airlines cut their coronavirus recovery forecast on Tuesday, saying it would take until 2024 - a year longer than previously expected - for passenger traffic to return to pre-crisis levels

Three pediatricians explain what's known about coronavirus and children

Based on current research, it would seem that kids 17 years old and younger face little risk from the coronavirus

Brazil coronavirus payout cuts extreme poverty to least in decades

Brazil's extreme poverty has plunged due to a monthly federal handout during the coronavirus pandemic, but threatens to bounce back once the government ceases the stopgap welfare programme

Medical bed isolation system 'Aashray' launched to combat coronavirus

A Pune deemed to be University has developed 'Aashray', a medical bed isolation system to combat Covid-19 by preventing or minimising the spread of the virus

Covid-19 is 'one wave', seasons don't seem to affect its spread: WHO

According to the WHO expert, the Covid-19 was a new respiratory virus which has been behaving differently and not necessarily changing with the seasons

Canada authorises remdesivir to treat patients of severe Covid-19

Canada has announced its authorisation for using the drug remdesivir for treating patients suffering severe symptoms of Covid-19 who have pneumonia and require extra oxygen to help them breathe