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Criticism shouldn't be at cost of national dignity: Adani on Covid handling

Billionaire Gautam Adani on Monday defended handling of the Covid-19 pandemic in the country, saying criticism should not be at the cost of national dignity and destroying the confidence of a nation

Calls for UK to review Covid vaccine protocol for Indian travellers

UK is under increasing pressure to review its Covid-19 vaccine protocol in place for travellers from India, after its updated rules effective from next month failed to recognise Indian vaccines

Mumbai sees 419 Covid-19 cases, 5 deaths; tests near 10 million mark

Mumbai on Monday reported 419 Covid-19 cases and five deaths, taking the tally to 738,524 and the toll to 16,058, a civic official said

Kerala records 15,692 new Covid-19 cases, see 92 fatalities today

Kerala on Monday recorded 15,692 people turning Covid positive after 89,722 samples were tested in the past 24 hours while the test positivity rate was 17.48 per cent

Covid LIVE: US to ease travel curbs for passengers from EU, UK, says report

Coronavirus LIVE updates: India's active Covid-19 cases are at 318,181. Delhi reported 29 Covid-19 cases and no fatality. Stay tuned for corona updates

India has capacity to scale up pace of Covid-19 vaccination: WHO

India has the systems in place to administer a large number of vaccine doses and achieve the mammoth feat of vaccinating all the country's people by December 2021, says WHO

UK begins Covid-19 vaccine rollout for school children aged 12-15

The UK's health service started to roll out Covid-19 vaccines to school children aged 12-15 on Monday as part of the latest expansion of the country's vaccination programme

We need to end Covid-19 pandemic, our response has been too slow: UN chief

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres gave a rallying call for urgent action to end the COVID-19 pandemic

First vax dose given to over 90% of eligible persons in Kerala: Health Min

The first dose of vaccine has been administered to over 90 per cent of the people eligible for vaccination in Kerala, Veena George said and urged people not to be averse to getting inoculated

Covid-19 virus evolving to get better at becoming airborne, study shows

The variants of SARS-CoV-2 are getting better at travelling through the air, and people must wear tight-fitting masks and ensure better ventilation to help stop spread of the virus

Top headlines: Evergrande threat hits markets; Pfizer vaccine works on kids

Business Standard brings you the top headlines on Monday

India to resume export of surplus Covid vaccines next month: Mandaviya

Govt to receive over 300 mn doses in Oct; over 1 bn in next three months, says Union Health Minister

Delhi reports 20 coronavirus cases, 0 death; positivity rate 0.04%

The national capital reported 20 COVID-19 cases and zero deaths on Monday, while the positivity rate stood at 0.04 per cent, according to data shared by the health department here.

Centre yet to give time for meeting on stubble burning, bio-decomposer: Rai

Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai on Monday said his central counterpart is yet to give time for a meeting on the use of Pusa bio-decomposer, a microbial solution to turn stubble into manure

Pfizer vaccine safe for children aged 5-11, show clinical trial results

Pfizer said Monday its Covid-19 vaccine works for children ages 5 to 11 and that it will seek US authorisation for this age group soon -- a key step toward beginning vaccinations for youngsters.

Yuvraj Singh's foundation sets up 50 CCU beds at govt hospital in Srinagar

A foundation run by former Indian cricketer Yuvraj Singh has set up 50 CCU beds at the Government Medical College & Hospital here to tackle a possible third wave of the coronavirus.

Tharoor pulls out of UK events to protest quarantine for vaccinated Indians

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has pulled out of several planned engagements in the United Kingdom citing the Covid-19 quarantine rules put in place by the British government

Amid eased curbs, India administers lowest number of Covid tests in a month

Union health ministry urged states and federally controlled territories on Saturday to step up testing, warning that the festival season could lead to another spike in infections.

Instagram is bad for teens and Facebook knew it despite claiming otherwise

Facebook's policy of pursuing profits regardless of documented harm has sparked comparisons to Big Tobacco, which knew in the 1950s that its products were carcinogenic but publicly denied it

India registers over 30,000 Covid-19 cases, 295 deaths in a day

India's daily Covid cases continued to cross 30,000 mark for the last few days with 30,256 new cases reported in the last 24 hours, data released on Monday showed.