AZ-Oxford vaccine safe & efficacious: Interim analysis“ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 has an acceptable safety profile and has been found to be efficacious against symptomatic Covid-19 in this interim analysi...
09 Dec, 2020, 07.20 AM IST
Covid-19 vaccine front-runner held back by China’s spat with CanadaChinese customs hasn’t approved shipments of CanSino’s vaccine to Canada, the National Research Council of Canada said in a Aug. 26 email. ...
02 Sep, 2020, 08.44 AM IST
China's CanSino in talks for COVID-19 vaccine Phase III trial overseasChina's success in driving down COVID-19 infections has made it harder to conduct large-scale vaccine trials, and so far only a few countri...
12 Jul, 2020, 07.17 AM IST
COVID-19 testing kit developed by researchers in West Bengal gets ICMR nodPriced around Rs 500, the device has demonstrated a near-100 per cent accuracy in detecting the virus in a short span of 90 minutes, the st...
07 May, 2020, 04.33 PM IST
Fever, headache, body pain & difficulty in breathing: Symptoms of coronavirus similar to SARSThe infection is capable of spreading from person to person and between cities.
27 Mar, 2020, 10.42 AM IST
Coronavirus suspects will only be discharged after two negative tests in 24 hours: GovtThe case shall still be monitored for 14 days after their last contact with a confirmed 2019-nCoV case. In case the laboratory results are ...
16 Mar, 2020, 11.30 AM IST
Novel coronavirus situation under control: Health SecretaryShe said various precautionary measures have been undertaken in close coordination with the ministries concerned at the central level. "The...
14 Feb, 2020, 05.36 PM IST
Haptik launches WhatsaApp chatbot for novel Coronavirus awarenessGiven the accessibility of WhatsApp as a medium and people’s preferences to chat, Haptik said that it had built a chatbot called “nCov help...
10 Feb, 2020, 08.42 PM IST
Coronavirus: Over 3000 people still under observation, says govtThe state had on February 3 declared the novel coronavirus epidemic as a "state calamity" after a third student tested positive for the inf...
08 Feb, 2020, 11.08 PM IST
DGCI approves 'restricted use' of anti-HIV drugs on nCoV patientsAccording to government sources, apex health research body Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) had sought an emergency approval from ...
05 Feb, 2020, 08.50 PM IST
Battling the epidemic: India readies treatment protocol for CoronavirusThe Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has approval from the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) to allow a combination of lopin...
05 Feb, 2020, 07.53 AM IST
Coronavirus in China may have come from bats: StudiesThe coronavirus outbreak, which originated in the central Hubei province of China in December, has killed 361 with 57 deaths reported on Su...
03 Feb, 2020, 08.54 PM IST
Army sets up quarantine facility in Manesar for 300 students returning from HubeiAn Air India flight was sent to Wuhan on Friday to bring back the Indian students stuck in Hubei province, the epicentre of coronavirus. Th...
31 Jan, 2020, 04.58 PM IST
Homeopathy and Unani effective in prevention of novel coronavirus infections: AYUSH ministry"The Ministry of AYUSH is issuing the advisory as preventive measure and not claiming to be a treatment advice for the nCoV infection. The ...
29 Jan, 2020, 09.28 PM IST
More infectious but less fatal than SARSAs per WHO statistics, 202 laboratory-confirmed cases of nCoV including three deaths were reported till last week. During the period of inf...
29 Jan, 2020, 07.07 AM IST
Doctors warn Coronavirus could be as potent as SARSInfectious diseases specialist Dr Om Srivastava said, “It is too early to say whether the novel coronavirus 2019 will become endemic in Ind...
26 Jan, 2020, 08.57 AM IST
'Novel Chinese coronavirus may have transmitted to humans from snakes'According to the researchers, including Wei Ji from Peking University Health Science Centre in China, patients who became infected with the...
23 Jan, 2020, 11.23 AM IST