New Delhi: Tokyo Olympics-bound wrestler Bajrang Punia on Thursday received his first dose of COVID-19 vaccine after rejoining the national camp at the Sports Authority of India (SAI) centre in Sonepat. The elite 65 kg wrestler recently won gold at the Matteo Pellicone event in Rome, where he showed improvement on his leg defence. “I […]
New Delhi: Delhi on Wednesday recorded 536 new coronavirus cases, the highest in about two-and-a-half months, while there more persons died from the pathogen, the Health Department said. The number of active cases rose to 2,702 from 2,488 a day ago, according to a health bulletin. The 536 new cases took the infection tally to […]
Jaipur: The Rajasthan government decided on Wednesday not to conduct any examination till the fifth grade in state-run schools in the current academic session due to the rising coronavirus cases. The children of these classes will be promoted to the next class on the basis of assessment. The Education Department issued orders in this regard […]
New Delhi: Centenarian Brij Prakash Gupta, who was born a year after the end of the deadly Spanish Flu, received his first shot of COVID-19 vaccine in Delhi on Wednesday, his son said. Gupta, now 107, stepped out of his home in south Delhi ”for the first time since March 20, last year” to get his Covishield jab, son Vimal Gupta said, adding […]
New Delhi: A33-year-old man, currently admitted at LNJP Hospital here, has become the first confirmed case of COVID-19 caused by the South Africa variant of the novel coronavirus in Delhi, sources said on Tuesday. He was brought to the hospital about a week ago, and has been kept isolated in a separate unit, a source said. The LNJP Hospital had […]