In his virtual address at the 25th meeting of the Group of Ministers (GoM) to discuss the pandemic situation, the minister said that as on ...

Scientists are studying what led to an unexpected surge, and particularly whether a variant of the novel coronavirus first detected in Indi...

The threat of double and now a triple-mutant Indian strain, along with the deadly UK variant, are believed to be behind the latest surge ac...

About 59% samples of the newly identified and infectious Indian variant of SARS-CoV-2 called B.1.617 have been found in Maharashtra, althou...

Chairing the 24th meeting of the high-level Group of Ministers (GoM) on COVID-19 through a video link, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan ...

The ICMR had announced on Tuesday that Pune-based National Institute of Virology was in the process of isolating and culturing the South Af...

The ministry and ICMR are now considering containment and steps such as pool testing.

While the number of Covid-19 cases is stabilising, experts say behaviour of virus cannot be foreseen.

According to the World Health Organization's classification scheme on the prevalence of Zika virus, India is in category 2, indicating ongo...

The deceased, V Moosa (61), had been battling for life since the past few days in a private hospital here and was on ventilator support. Ko...

Gene studies say that the Sunderbans tiger population is identical to the tiger population of central India and has been isolated recently,...