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Covid-19 peak in India by mid-Sept if govt acts, public behaves: Expert

Different places (States) would peak at different times, says the President of Public Health Foundation of India

Antigen testing may be behind rise in Pune Covid-19 cases: Officials

Pune emerges as a new urban Covid-19 hotspot like Hyderabad and Bengaluru

In pictures: UGC's revised guidelines, exam status and the politics over it

Punjab, Maharashtra, Odisha, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Delhi have expressed reservations against the examination plan

Covid-19 Factoid: India has taken the longest to reach 1 million cases

Death toll in India is rising at a fast pace. The country registered its highest-ever single day spike of almost 700 deaths on July 17

Australian varsity develops blood test to trace coronavirus in 20 minutes

A blood test developed by researchers at Monash University is said to detect positive Covid-19 cases in just about 20 minutes

India Coronavirus Dispatch: Strategies to contain the spread in future

Experts on India's future coronavirus graph, why India's planned air bubbles are not exactly that, how Covid has changed consumer behaviour-a roundup news on how India is dealing with the pandemic

Priyanka slams UP govt over Covid-19 spike, alleges negligence in testing

There has been a jump of 200 per cent in Covid-19 cases in three districts of UP, 400 per cent in three districts and above 1,000 per cent in one district, Priyanka Gandhi said

Contact tracing won't curb Covid-19 spread if testing is too slow: Lancet

To be successful, contact tracing measures must keep the rate of transmission of the virus, known as the Reproduction or R number, below one

Studies explained in pics: Drugs that can help, hurt you in Covid fight

Here's a look at fresh studies about what treatments do or don't work for Covid-19, with high-quality methods that give reliable results

Zydus Cadila gets USFDA nod to market generic drug to treat headache

The drug will be manufactured at Nesher Pharma's manufacturing facility at St. Louis in the US, the drug firm says

Mumbai's Covid-19 recovery rate better than national average: Data

According to the BMC, the number of coronavirus cases in the city on Friday rose to 98,979, while the death toll due to the pandemic reached 5,582

Bihar can become next global Covid-19 hotspot, govt fudging data: Tejashwi

"Covid-19 testing in Bihar is the lowest in the country. The situation is bad," says the RJD leader

Covid updates: Nearly 35k cases in India; community transmission in Kerala

Many US states that preferred early reopening have witnessed coronavirus rampant, while New York, the country's hardest-hit city, has seen a 64 per cent drop since June 1

Decoded: How coronavirus evades host cell defense, attacks immunity

According to the researchers, including those from the University of Munich in Germany, Nsp1 is one of the central weapons used by the virus to ensure its own replication and propagation in human host

New studies clarify what drugs help, hurt in fight against Covid-19

British researchers on Friday published their research on the only drug shown to improve survival -- a cheap steroid called dexamethasone

Coronavirus may attack the central nervous system of patients: Study

Severity of the loss of smell or taste, nasal obstruction, excessive mucus production, fever, cough and shortness of breath during Covid-19 were assessed

China battles new Covid-19 outbreak in far west Xinjiang; 17 cases reported

The outbreak in the city of Urumqi is the latest to pop up since China largely contained the domestic spread of the virus in March

No, coronavirus cannot be transmitted from mosquitoes to humans, says study

The study found that the virus is unable to replicate in three common and widely distributed species of mosquitoes and therefore cannot be transmitted to humans

Coronavirus vaccine update: Bharat Biotech starts human trial at PGI-Rohtak

Researchers at the University of Oxford believe they may have a breakthrough in their search for a Covid-19 vaccine. Catch latest updates on Coronavirus vaccine

India reports over 30,000 new cases for 3rd day in a row, tally at 1038716

This is the third consecutive day when the number of Covid-19 cases increased by more than 30,000