“On one level it was portrayed that more youth and children got infected in the second wave as compared to first wave. This is false,” said...

The second wave did not spare children, teenagers and youth in their twenties who accounted for a number of infections and fatalities.

Notably, 72% of the total homes delivered by 2021-end are already sold out, with just 28% remaining unsold. NCR would see the maximum compl...

The state reported 19,511 fresh infections, which took the tally to 11,14,313.

Data from the health department show that number of women getting infected with Covid-19 has gone up during the second wave of infections. ...

Altogether 384 employees of AIIMS Patna, including doctors, nurses, safai karamchari and others have come under impact of the virus in cour...

The high prevalence rates suggest variants are driving the current surge since widespread infection is usually thought to bring herd immuni...

India's financial capital Mumbai has emerged as one of the worst-affected Covid cities in the country after witnessing a worrying surge in ...

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

Two or more waves of the pandemic appear to be the norm in countries with a sizable number of infections.

Gangakhedkar, who was at the helm of affairs said India could manage to delay the onset of the outbreak by 3-4 months.

The pandemic's recent acceleration has been ferocious. It took 32 days for the number of cases to rise from 30 million to 40 million. It to...

According to Niti Aayog member V K Paul, India is in a somewhat better position now but the country still has a long way to go because 90 p...

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

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 ...

As travel restrictions are slowly eased in may parts of the world, countries fear travellers who might have picked up the virus elsewhere, ...

Outside China -- where the virus was first detected in December and infected more than 80,000 people -- South Korea is the hardest-hit coun...