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Oil prices drop 2% as Covid-19 vaccine halt threatens demand

Brent was down $1.11 cents, or 1.6%, at $67.77 a barrel by 1325 GMT. U.S. crude fell $1.17, or 1.7%, at $64.22

3 new Covid variants reported in India: Govt informs Rajya Sabha

Three new variants of Covid-19, from the UK variant, South Africa and Brazil, have been reported so far in India

Tamil Nadu reports 867 fresh Covid-19 infections, five fatalities

Caseload rose to 8,61,429

UK's Covid-19 vaccine is safe and works extremely well: Boris Johnson

The Covid-19 vaccine developed by Oxford University and bio-pharmaceutical major AstraZeneca is safe and works extremely well, Johnson said

Covid-19 vaccine not exported at expense of Indians: Harshvardhan

India has exported vaccines to 72 countries till March 15

Canada changes tack, recommends use of Astra vaccine in people over 65

The National Advisory Committee on Immunization said it was basing its new guidelines on three recent real-world studies that examined the effectiveness of the vaccine

1,970 fresh Covid-19 infections reported, 15 deaths in Kerala

There were 2,884 recoveries

EU drug agency: No indication AstraZeneca shot caused clots

The head of the European Medicines Agency says there is no indication that AstraZeneca vaccines are the cause of blood clots reported in some shot recipients

Biotech firm Moderna begins testing Covid-19 vaccine on children

The vaccine is designed to be used on children aged between 6 months to less than 12 years old

Coronavirus LIVE: Night curfew in Bhopal, Indore from Wednesday

Coronavirus live updates: Gujarat govt has decided to implement night curfew in Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Surat and Rajkot from March 17 till March 31. Stay tuned for corona-related news

Covid-19: Dharavi sees 21 cases, highest since Oct 6 last year

Dharavi in Mumbai is one of the world's densest urban sprawls

Moderna begins trial of 'next-gen booster' Covid-19 vaccine

The firm announced that the first participants have been dosed in the Phase 1 study of mRNA-1283, the company's next generation Covid-19 vaccine candidate

Germany postpones vaccination summit over AstraZeneca furore

The German government said Tuesday it will postpone a virtual summit on the country's vaccination efforts

Sweden is latest country to stop using AstraZeneca vaccine

This comes amid reports of dangerous blood clots in some recipients

India Coronavirus Dispatch: Cases of seasonal flu dip amid Covid

AstraZeneca says no higher risk of blood clots with its coronavirus vaccine, why the 28-day gap between doses is necessary, and more-news relevant to India's fight against Covid-19

Canada lags in Covid-19 vaccinations but expects to catch up quickly

Canada once was hailed as a success story in dealing with the coronavirus pandemic, faring much better than the United States in deaths and infections because of how it approached lockdowns. But the trade-dependent nation has lagged on vaccinating its population because it lacks the ability to manufacture the vaccine and has had to rely on the global supply chain for the lifesaving shots, like many other countries. With no domestic supply, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government bet on seven different vaccines manufactured elsewhere and secured advance purchase agreements enough to get 10 doses for each of Canada's 38 million people. Regulators have approved the Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson vaccines. While acquiring them has proven difficult, that gamble appears to be about to pay off. Although Canada's economy is tightly interconnected with the US, Washington hasn't allowed the hundreds of millions of vaccine doses made in America to be exported, and ...

Mumbai civic body targets 100,000 coronavirus vaccinations per day

With an aim to speed up the Covid vaccination drive, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has set a target of inoculating one lakh people in the city every day, BMC officials said on Tuesday

DATA STORY: With over 3 mn shots in a day, India has now vaccinated 2.4% population

India has so far vaccinated 32,947,432 people. That is 288.77 per cent of its total caseload, and 2.3711 per cent of its population

Iran launches final clinical trial of domestic coronavirus vaccine

Iran has kicked off the final stage of the clinical trial of its domestic Covid-19 vaccine as two volunteers were inoculated, semi-official Mehr news agency reported

India records 24,492 new coronavirus cases, 131 deaths in 24 hours

India recorded 24,492 new COVID-19 cases, registering more than 20,000 cases for the sixth day in a row, taking the infection tally past 1.14 crore, the Union health ministry said on Tuesday