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PM Modi sells reforms story to US biz, seeks investment across sectors

Inviting US investors to tap opportunities in the technology sector, the prime minister cited a report that said that for the first time ever, there were more rural internet users than urban.

Don't expect first Covid-19 vaccinations until early 2021, says WHO expert

WHO is working hard to ensure fair distribution of the vaccines, but in the meantime it is key to suppress the spread of the virus, said Mike Ryan, executive director of WHO's emergencies programme

Covid-19's long heritage

The Black Death introduced new vocabulary - quarantine - the Italian word for 40, the number of days ship carrying diseased passengers were kept away from dock

Never been a better time to invest in India: PM Modi at India Ideas Summit

Calling for more investment in India, Modi further said that it is emerging as a land of opportunities

Prez Bolsonaro in good health, but still Covid-19 positive: Brazil govt

The World Health Organization says the median time from onset to clinical recovery for mild cases is approximately two weeks

Govt notifies incentive scheme for local API manufacturing to cut imports

According to a government notification, bulk drugs accounted for 63 per cent of total pharmaceutical imports in the country in 2018-19.

India responding to Covid-19 crisis with utmost urgency from the start: WHO

The country did not witness an exponential increase in cases like some other countries which reported their first few cases, along with India, said WHO Regional Director (South-East Asia)

As Covid-19 reaches hinterland, is India's rural growth story getting over?

A recent report by Credit Suisse cautions that the spread of Covid-19 infections to Tier-III and -IV cities could stall the growth momentum

Has ICMR become a super-regulator of sorts in the medical sector?

Clearly, the ICMR as a research body is not the best equipped to handle the role of a regulator for the sector. Yet it has become the most visible face of India's fight against Covid-19

India Covid recovery rate at 63% after record 28,472 recuperations in a day

The health ministry said that effective clinical management of Covid-19 cases has led to an improvement in recovery figures while case fatality has been falling continuously

HCQ, chloroquine have no antiviral effect against any coronavirus: Studies

They found that HCQ showed no substantial antiviral activity, regardless of the timing of treatment initiation, either before infection, soon after infection, or late after infection

Covid-19: Here's why N95 masks with respirators are not recommended

According to the latest notification by the government, there are higher chances of coronavirus spreading from asymptomatic people to uninfected persons through N95 masks which have respiratory valves

Covid-19 crisis to bite India deeply, GDP to shrink 6% in FY21: DBS report

The yet to be stabilised infection curve reflects a deeper double-digit contraction in Q1 of FY21 and a shallower pickup in Q2 and a return to growth in Q3

World Coronavirus Dispatch: Trump bats for face masks in change of tone

Thailand extends emergency till August, Russia reports close to 6,000 new cases, 500 inmates test positive in Texas jail and other pandemic-related news across the globe

Antigen test for people arriving in Goa from outside: CM Pramod Sawant

Amid the Covid-19 outbreak, Pramod Sawant has said his government will start rapid antigen tests of people arriving in the state from Thursday

Delhi govt to conduct monthly sero-surveys to tackle Covid-19: Health min

The decision comes after the city government analysed the results of the latest sero-survey which showed that 23 per cent of the people here had exposure to the novel coronavirus.

Migrant workers from India, Nepal 'totally hopeless' as UAE economy buckles

The treatment of migrant workers in the Gulf has come under greater scrutiny, with human rights groups saying conditions have deteriorated because of the coronavirus.

Work from home norms to vaccine updates: Covid highlights of last 24 hours

US President Donald Trump has finally admitted that the coronavirus pandemic is likely to "get worse before it gets better"

Expectations worsen for Europe's Q2 earnings season over recession fears

Expectations for second-quarter corporate profits have deteriorated in Europe, according to Refinitiv data, as fears grow over the extent of the recession triggered by the coronavirus pandemic

Lab-made mild virus mimics Covid-19, can aid drug, vaccine discovery: Study

Scientists have genetically modified a "mild virus" which generates antibodies in humans just like the novel coronavirus, but without causing severe disease, an advance which they say will enable more labs across the world to safely test drugs and vaccine candidates against COVID-19. The researchers from the Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis in the US engineered the mildly infecting vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) which virologists widely use in experiments by swapping one of its genes for one from the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. According to the study, published in the journal Cell Host & Microbe, the resulting hybrid virus infects cells, and is recognised by antibodies in humans just like SARS-CoV-2, but can be handled under ordinary laboratory safety conditions. Since the novel coronavirus spreads easily via aerosols, and is potentially deadly, the scientists said it is studied only under high-level biosafety conditions. They said scientists handling the ..