Washington, April 28 Covaxin, India’s home-grown Covid vaccine, has been found to neutralise the 617 variant of the deadly virus, White House chief medical adviser and America’s top pandemic expert Dr Anthony Fauci has said. Fauci was speaking to reporters during a conference call on Tuesday. “This is something whereRead More

Chandigarh, April 25 Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh has ordered the state’s health department to order 30 lakh Covishield doses for vaccinating people from 18 to 45 years, with directions to use CM Covid Relief Fund for meeting vaccine requirements of the poor. The chief minister asked the Department toRead More

Baghdad, April 25 Iraq’s Interior Ministry said Sunday that 82 people died and 110 were injured in a catastrophic fire that broke out in the intensive care unit of a Baghdad hospital tending to severe coronavirus patients. Negligence on the part of hospital authorities has been blamed for the SaturdayRead More

New Delhi, April 25 India logged a record 3,49,691 new coronavirus infections in a day taking its total tally of COVID-19 cases to 1,69,60,172, while active cases crossed the 26-lakh mark, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Sunday. The death toll increased to 1,92,311 with a recordRead More

New Delhi, April 25 Keeping in view the acute shortage of life-saving gas, the government on Sunday completely banned the use of “liquid oxygen” for industrial purposes, as the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) in a communication to all the states and the Union Territories, also made it clear thatRead More

Toronto, April 23 The Canadian government has banned all passenger flights from India and Pakistan for 30 days due to the unprecedented spike in COVID-19 cases in the region, the longest country-specific travel ban imposed by Canada. The flight ban took effect from Thursday midnight, Transport Minister Omar Alghabra saidRead More

Chandigarh, April 23 Terming the new vaccination policy for 18-plus age group as unfair to the states, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Friday sought Centre-state parity in vaccination for 18-plus age group from May 1, while calling for urgent steps to ensure adequate oxygen supply. While his governmentRead More

Washington, April 23 The US has advised its citizens to avoid travelling to India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and the Maldives due to the sudden surge in Covid cases in the region. In a series of travel advisories on Thursday, the authorities also urged Americans to reconsider travel to China andRead More

New Delhi, April 23 Powered By The Tribune x eReleGo As the number of COVID-19 patients remained high, Russia, UK, France and Germany among other countries have offered to gift oxygen generating equipment to India. Germany will be the first to send nearly two dozen oxygen generation plants and FranceRead More

More than 1,500 tree planters from Quebec and Ontario are expected to travel across the country to the B.C. Interior in the next two weeks to help plant millions of seedlings in the midst of a pandemic. They’ll join thousands of B.C. planters who are preparing to work on aRead More