Category: Health

India’s Daily New Cases further decline to 1.65 Lakh Cases, maintaining the continuous declining trend

Daily New Cases are lowest in last 46 days With decrease by 1,14,216 in last 24 hours, Active Caseload further dips to 21,14,508 Daily Recoveries continue to outnumber the Daily New Cases for 17th consecutive day Recovery Rate further increases to 91.25% Daily Positivity Rate at 8.02% continues […]

India’s total coronavirus cases cross 27 million

India’s total coronavirus infections crossed 27 million on Wednesday, swelled by 208,921 new cases over the last 24 hours, while daily deaths from COVID-19 rose by 4,157. The South Asian country’s overall caseload is now at 27.16 million, while total fatalities are at 311,388, according to health ministry […]

India’s coronavirus infections ebb but states struggle for vaccines

India’s official tally of daily infections of coronavirus fell to the lowest in nearly six weeks in the past 24 hours, offering hope that a devastating second wave is ebbing, but government leaders said shortages of vaccines were a big concern. Barely 3% of the country’s 1.3 billion […]

India virus death toll passes 300,000, 3rd highest in world

NEW DELHI — India crossed another grim milestone Monday of more than 300,000 people lost to the coronavirus as a devastating surge of infections appeared to be easing in big cities but was swamping the poorer countryside. The milestone, as recorded by India’s health ministry, comes as slowed vaccine […]

India battles fatal fungal threat as virus deaths near 300K

NEW DELHI — Doctors in India are fighting a fatal fungal infection affecting COVID-19 patients or those who have recovered from the disease amid a coronavirus surge that has driven the country’s fatalities to nearly 300,000. The life-threatening condition, known as mucormycosis, is relatively rare but doctors suspect […]

Indian villagers turn to unlicensed clinics as COVID spreads to the countryside

An Indian former hospital worker with no medical education is running a small unlicensed clinic, tending to patients with breathing difficulties and checking their oxygen levels as they lie on cots on the mud floor. India has been hard hit by a second wave of coronavirus infections which has overwhelmed […]

EXPLAINER: Why ‘world’s pharmacy’ India is short on shots

NEW DELHI — Last year, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi told the United Nations his country would make enough COVID-19 vaccines “to help all humanity.” Now India is struggling to meet its own domestic needs for the shots amid a startling surge of infections. As the world’s largest […]

Inside the race to find a COVID-19 treatment pill

In early 2020, as a new deadly coronavirus began spreading around the world, Pfizer Inc (PFE.N) assembled what it called a “SWAT team” of scientists and chemists to identify a potential treatment to fight COVID-19. The U.S. pharmaceutical giant, which had begun exploring a vaccine, also wanted to produce a […]

COVID-19: India records 2.59 lakh fresh cases, 4,209 fatalities

New Delhi, May 21: The daily rise in coronavirus cases in India remained below 3 lakh for the fifth consecutive day with 2.59 lakh new cases recorded in a single day, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Friday. With a total of 2,59,551 fresh cases, India’s […]

India registers 2.81 lakh fresh COVID-19 cases, 4,106 deaths

New Delhi, May 17:  India’s COVID-19 tally mounted to 2,49,65,463 on Monday with 2,81,386 fresh cases, the lowest in 27 days, while the death toll climbed to 2,74,390 as 4,106 more people succumbed to the disease, according to Union health ministry data However, 2,11,74,076 patients have recuperated from […]

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