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Fervid hopes invested in the quick rollout of a Covid-19 vaccine have been boosted now that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has provided Pune-based Serum Institute $150 million “at-risk funds” to manufacture the vaccine being developed in collaboration with the University of Oxford, Astra-Zeneca and Novavax, ...

India's coronavirus tally breached the 20 lakh-mark on Thursday, while recoveries surged to 13.7 lakh, according to data provided by the states and Union Territories.India is only the third country after the United States and Brazil to have hit this grim milestone.According to figures from the Union Ministry ...

The new coronavirus appears to have circulated unnoticed in bats for decades, scientists have found. Horseshoe bats are the most plausible origin of the SARS-CoV-2 pathogen, researchers led by Maciej Boni of Pensylvania State University’s Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics said in a study published Tuesday ...

The Jammu and Kashmir administration on Wednesday imposed a six-day lockdown across the Valley, except Bandipora district, to contain the spread of the coronavirus.Earlier in the day, India registered 37,724 new cases, taking its total count to 11,92,915. The toll increased by 648 to 28,732.Delhi Health Minister Satyendra Jain ...

Coronavirus Highlights: The annual Amarnath Yatra pilgrimage will not be held this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, sources told CNN-News18 on Tuesday. The 42-day-long yatra to the 3,880-metre-high holy cave shrine of Amarnath in south Kashmir Himalayas was earlier curtailed and was to be held only from ...

Coronavirus LIVE updates: Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Ltd today issued a statement after DCGI sent a notice to the firm on overpricing and false claims of its Covid-19 drug FabiFlu. The pharma company said that it was dismayed that despite being the only company to conduct a “robust 150-patient randomized ...