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India's COVID-19 caseload neared 60 lakh with 88,600 fresh infections being reported on Sunday, while the number of people having recuperated from the disease crossed 49 lakh pushing the national recovery rate to 82.46 per cent, according to the Union Health Ministry. The total coronavirus cases mounted to 59,92,532, while the death toll climbed to 94,503 with 1,124 people succumbing...

India's COVID-19 caseload raced past 57 lakh, while over 46 lakh people have recovered from the disease pushing the national recovery rate to 81.55 per cent, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Thursday. The total coronavirus cases mounted to 57,32,518 with 86,508 people testing positive in a day while the death toll climbed to 91,149 with 1,129...

India has reported the highest rate of coronavirus recoveries in the world, which has crossed the 80 per cent-mark, said Union Health Ministry today. Addressing the Health Ministry press briefing on the COVID-19 situation, Rajesh Bhushan, Secretary, Union Health Ministry said, "We get swayed by the narrative that India has over 50 lakh cases, but we forget that nearly 45...

India has achieved record recoveries of 1,01,468 COVID-19 patients in the last 24 hours, the Health Ministry data shows. Its coronavirus tally crossed the 55-lakh mark with a spike of 75,083 cases and 1,053 deaths. This is the fourth day when the number of daily recoveries is higher than the daily cases. With almost 45 lakh people (44,97,868) having...

India's COVID-19 tally reached 54.88 lakh with 86,961 people being infected in the past 24 hours, while 43,96,399 people have recuperated so far pushing the national recovery rate to 80.12 per cent on Sunday, according to the Union Health Ministry data. The total coronavirus cases mounted to 54,87,580, while the death toll climbed to 87,882 with the infection claiming 1,130...

With 83,809 new infections reported in the last 24 hours, India's coronavirus tally has crossed the 49 lakh mark. The pandemic claimed 1,054 lives in the last 24 hours taking India's total death count past the 80,000 mark. The country now has 9.90 lakh active cases and a total 38.59 lakh patients in the country have recovered from COVID-19....

Drug firm Indoco Remedies on Monday said it has received approval from the US health regulator for blood thinning drug Apixaban tablets. The approved product is therapeutically equivalent to the reference listed drug Eliquis of Bristol-Myers Squibb. In a regulatory filing, Indoco Remedies said it has received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) for its abbreviated...

New recruitment for the Phase 2 and Phase 3 trials of the Oxford University's Covishield vaccine being manufactured in India by the Serum Institute of India, along with pharma major AstraZeneca, has to be suspended till further orders, country's drug controller DCGI has said. The Drugs Controller General Of India (DCGI) has also directed the Serum Institute of India...

Delhi Lt Governor Anil Baijal on Wednesday directed officers to augment the city's testing capacity by taking a few steps, including 'testing on demand', testing at the national capital's border points and at major construction sites to check the spread of COVID-19. Sources said that during a meeting of Delhi Disaster Management Authority, the lieutenant governor asked officers to...

Parents should be "reassured" Covid-19 has not caused the deaths of any otherwise healthy schoolchildren in the UK, researchers say. Children's risk of needing hospital treatment for coronavirus is "tiny" and critical care "even tinier", they say. However, black children, those who are obese and very young babies have a slightly higher risk. The BMJ study looked at 651...