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Telangana coronavirus update: 661 new Covid-19 cases, 3 deaths reported

Telangana reported 661 new cases of Covid-19 on Saturday, taking the total number of cases to 2,57,374 in the state

India's coronavirus caseload crosses 8.8 mn-mark; death toll at 129,635

India's Covid-19 caseload has gone past the 8.8 million mark, while the number of people who have recuperated from the disease has crossed 8.2 mn

Global coronavirus update: Death toll crosses 1.3 mn, says Johns Hopkins

The global tally of deaths due to coronavirus has crossed 1.3 million, according to the latest update by the Johns Hopkins University.

Pfizer vaccine has 'extraordinarily high degree of efficacy': Fauci

A successful inoculation could be a key factor in overcoming reluctance to take pandemic vaccines that have been developed at top speed.

India has initiated an integrated response against Covid-19: Harsh Vardhan

From development of indigenous vaccines to novel point-of-care diagnostics, India has initiated an integrated response to overcome the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic, Union minister Harsh Vardhan said on Saturday. Speaking at the 8th BRICS STI Ministerial Meeting held on Friday, Vardhan said India is also hosting clinical trials for all the major vaccines, and about 20 vaccines are in different stages of development. Two of them are in the most advanced stage of development. COVAXIN developed through ICMR-Bharat Biotech collaboration and COVISHIELD from the Serum Institute of India. Both are in Phase-III clinical trial stage, he added. "India has initiated an integrated response to overcome this unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic. "From the development of indigenous vaccines, novel point-of-care diagnostics and therapeutic formulations based on traditional knowledge, to establishing research resources and offering services, Indian R&D entities, both public and private, are working ..

Coronavirus LIVE: Places of worship in Maharashtra to reopen, says CM

Coronavirus live updates: Maharashtra has 1,740,461 coronavirus cases, Karnataka 857,928, Andhra Pradesh 851,000, Tamil Nadu 752,521 and UP 514,060.

India Coronavirus Dispatch: Covid fails to dampen festive spirit in Delhi

A worsening crisis in Delhi, common mistakes people make while taking precautions, fresh research that sheds more light on the virus, and more news on how the country is coping with the pandemic

Scientists uncover why Covid-19 spares the young disproportionately

Children have lower levels of a receptor protein that the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 needs to invade airway epithelial cells in the lung

Amid surge in coronavirus cases, Paris hospitals begin to see signs of hope

Although France now has more patients hospitalised with the virus than during the April peak of the initial wave, there are about 2,000 fewer in intensive care

India cases at 8,773,479; Trump sticks to 'no national lockdown' stance

A petition has been filed before the Supreme Court seeking a direction to the Centre and the state governments to fix the maximum rate for the RT-PCR test for Covid-19 uniformly all over India

Coronavirus vaccine update: 20 mn Americans may get vaccine by December-end

The Russian 'Sputnik V' vaccine for Covid-19 has arrived in India for human clinical trial

US reports highest single-day spike with 177,000 new Covid-19 cases

Every state reported an increase in new COVID-19 cases, with at least 10 states tallying all-time highs

Covid-19: Jharkhand reports 288 new cases, four fresh fatalities in 24 hrs

The fresh deaths were reported from Ranchi, Bokaro, Ramgarh and East Singhbhum

Covid-19: 44,684 new cases take India's virus tally to 87,73,479

India's Covid-19 cases tally climbed to 87.73 lakh with 44,684 new infections in a day, while 81,63,572 people have recuperated from the disease so far

Vaccine politics reaches new level as Trump threatens to withhold it for NY

Donald Trump threatened to withhold them from New York state because Governor Andrew Cuomo had been a sceptic of his plan to speed up their availability

Global Covid-19 cases cross 53.2 mn, death toll at 1,301,021: Johns Hopkins

As of Saturday morning, the total caseload and death toll stood at 53,281,350 and 1,301,021, respectively

US official says 20 million Americans can be vaccinated in December

President Donald Trump said a vaccine will be more widely available for the US public by April of 2021

Increase ventilators, beds, oximeters for patients: HC to Himachal govt

A Division Bench comprising the Chief Justice L.Narayana Swamy and Justice Anoop Chitkara passed the order on a petition taken up suo moto by the Court

Covid-19: Italy extends partial lockdown as Naples hospitals struggle

Naples hospitals made headlines this week when a video that went viral showed an elderly man lying dead on the floor of an emergency room bathroom

A vaccine won't derail the easy money train

Vaccine breakthroughs are great. But the vaccine itself has to be distributed and have a demonstrable effect on activity for central banks to be convinced it's time to consider letting up