Canada is sending medical supplies to India to help the country deal with a surge in coronavirus cases that has pushed its hospital system to the brink of collapse. Military airlifts will deliver 25,000 vials of the antiviral drug remdesivir and up to 350 ventilators, Foreign Affairs Minister Marc GarneauRead More

Melbourne, May 5 A 73-year-old Australian, who is stranded in India since March last year, has filed a lawsuit before a Sydney court against the federal government for banning flights from India and threatening to prosecute those attempting to enter the country with the possibility of a jail term andRead More

New Delhi, May 5 The UK strain of coronavirus is currently dominating parts of north India while the double mutant variant is found mostly in Maharashtra, Karnataka and Gujarat, Director of the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Sujeet Singh said on Wednesday. He, however, added that the B1.1.7 lineageRead More

New Delhi, May 5 The Reserve Bank of India has included patients for health treatment in a special liquidity window of Rs 50,000 crore announced on Wednesday for Covid-related sectors. Besides patients, the other six eligible sectors are the government hospitals, pharmacies, manufacturers of vaccines and medical oxygen and privateRead More

New Delhi, May 4 Advertisement Powered By The Tribune x eReleGo The need for RT-PCR test in healthy individuals undertaking inter-state domestic travel may be completely removed to reduce the load on laboratories, recommended an ICMR advisory for COVID-19 testing during the second wave of the pandemic. The advisory statedRead More

New Delhi, May 4 US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday met External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar in London to discuss addressing the Covid challenge and deepening the US-India comprehensive global strategic partnership. Blinken and Jaishankar reviewed recent efforts in the fight against Covid including US assistance to India,Read More

Bengaluru, May 3 As many as 24 patients, including 23 suffering from Covid, died in Karnataka’s Chamarajanagar due to alleged oxygen shortage in the district hospital in the last 24 hours, officials said. A pall of gloom descended on the Chamarajanagar district hospital as the grieving kin of the deceasedRead More

New Delhi, May 3 New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Monday confirmed that there was indeed a patient in the New Zealand High Commission who required emergency treatment but conceded that an open public appeal for oxygen cylinders was not the right way for its New Delhi mission toRead More

New Delhi, May 3 More than 2.15 lakh beneficiaries in the 18-44 age group received the first dose of the anti-COVID vaccine across 12 states and Union territories in the last 24 hours, the Health Ministry said on Monday. The total number of vaccinations across the country has crossed 15.88Read More

Mumbai, May 1 The vaccination drive for the people in the age group of 18 to 44 years took off in Mumbai with limited access even as the city civic body stressed to have achieved the set target of inoculating 1,000 people on the first day on Saturday. A seniorRead More