Tag: Covid
A 90-year-old woman from Ireland named Margaret Keenan on Tuesday became the first person in the world to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine as part of the mass vaccination programme being rolled out across the UK. ....
Envoys of more than 60 countries on Wednesday visited a facility of Bharat Biotech which is developing Covaxin, India's first indigenous vaccine for coronavirus. ....
With 29,398 new coronavirus infections and 414 deaths in the past 24 hours, India's overall tally stood at 97,96,770 on Friday, while the death toll touched 1,42,186, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said. ....
With 30,006 new coronavirus infections and 442 deaths in the past 24 hours, India's overall tally stood at 98,26,775 on Saturday, while the death toll touched 1,42,628, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said. ....
BJP President J.P. Nadda on Sunday said that he has tested positive for coronavirus, and is isolating at home.....
Just when the spread of Coronavirus infection in Tamil Nadu appeared to be receding, the premier technical institute of Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT-M) has turned into a Covid-19 hotspot. ....
At 2.15 per cent, Delhi on Monday reported the lowest positivity rate of new Covid-19 cases recorded so far. The positivity rate came out of 63,94 samples tested in the last 24 hours, wherein 1,376 turned out positive. Meanwhile, 2,854 patients recovered from the disease while 60 succumbed to it in the same duration. ....
Bahrain's health regulator announced that it has officially approved the registration of a Covid-19 vaccine developed by the China National Pharmaceutical Group, or Sinopharm, a state media report said. ....
As America begins a historic vaccination campaign, the US Food and Drug Administration posted a preliminary analysis confirming the safety and effectiveness of the Covid-19 vaccine developed by Moderna in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health, bringing it ever closer to an emergency use authorisation. ....
French President Emmanuel Macron has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, the Elysee Palace confirmed in a statement on Thursday, joining a long list of world leaders to be infected with the disease. ....