“If your neighbour’s house is on fire, it can spread to us too,” he told ET, saying institutional quarantine is a common tool used in forei...

The Centre, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his cabinet colleague Satyendar Jain had said last year that one will have to learn wi...

Top scientists and certain ministers have been raising alarm about the "inevitable" third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic for the last few we...

Foreign investors withdrew $2.5 billion from emerging Asia stocks excluding China this week alone, according to latest available data compi...

Though the ongoing surge during the second wave is more rapid, it is not as widespread as the previous wave in September-October last year.

Virologist Shahid Jameel, who has won the coveted Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, said the rollout of vaccines has caused a false sense of s...

"Maharashtra is at the beginning of the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic. Efforts to track, test, isolate cases and quarantine contacts are...

Among the world's wealthiest nations, Britain had the second-highest death toll from the coronavirus in the first wave of the pandemic, beh...

The banking index led sectoral declines following its best three-day winning streak since the global financial crisis in 2009, while travel...

New coronavirus cases are surfacing in most of Europe and West Asia in clear signs of a second wave that threatens the nascent recovery and...

Tensions are rising in cities where new restrictions have been re-imposed, with hundreds of Romanian hospitality workers protesting this we...

Britain reported its highest number of new COVID-19 infections in more than a month on Thursday, as ministers fretted about a second wave o...

From Italy to New Zealand, irrespective of how well the virus was contained, governments acknowledge that fresh waves of the deadly coronav...

US S&P 500 futures rose 0.4%, having erased early losses of 1.05% while Japan's Nikkei also eked out gains of 0.1%, similarly recovering fr...

Many public health experts, however, suggest it's no time to celebrate. About 120,000 Americans have died from the new virus and there are ...

The S&P/ASX 200 index ended up 0.1 per cent at 5,942.6 points, having gained as much as 1.2 per cent earlier.

In India, which partly relaxed its lockdown this week, health authorities scrambled Wednesday to contain an outbreak at a huge market. Hard...