COVID-19

China grants conditional approval to its homegrown COVID-19 vaccine

12:21 pm December 31, 2020

Beijing: China has granted conditional approval to the country’s first homegrown COVID-19 vaccine developed by state-owned pharmaceutical giant Sinopharm, an official announcement said on Thursday. The approval comes a day after Sinopharm said its vaccine showed 79.34 per cent efficacy and a 99.52 per cent antibody-positive conversion rate in the interim results of the Phase III clinical trials. ”The inactivated […]

COVID-19: Night curfew in Delhi on Dec 31, Jan 1

12:02 pm December 31, 2020

New Delhi : The Delhi government has imposed night curfew from 11 pm to 6 am on December 31 and January 1 to avoid large gatherings during New Year celebrations due to COVID-19 and its highly transmissible UK strain. According to an order issued by Delhi Chief Secretary Vijay Dev, the night curfew will also be imposed from […]

Delhi-based Kashmiri scribes, over 25 people from Valley were potential spying targets: Report

Nagpur records 368 COVID-19 cases; 6 UK returnees in hospital

11:55 pm December 30, 2020

Nagpur : Nagpur district on Wednesday registered 368 new coronavirus cases, taking its tally to 1,23,374, while six people who returned from the UK recently are undergoing treatment here after testing positive, said officials. A senior Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) medical officer told PTI that six UK returnees are under treatment in the city after […]

Vardhan releases ‘Action Agenda for an Aatmanirbhar Bharat’ report

11:26 pm December 29, 2020

New Delhi: Minister of Science and Technology Harsh Vardhan on Tuesday released a report titled ”Action Agenda for an Aatmanirbhar Bharat (AAAN)”, prepared by the Technology Information, Forecasting and Assessment Council (TIFAC). The comprehensive report is a follow-up of the TIFAC’s white paper on ”Focussed Interventions for Make in India: post COVID-19”, which was released in […]

5 UK returnees to Haryana test positive for COVID-19

11:06 pm December 29, 2020

Chandigarh: Five people from Haryana who returned to India from the United Kingdom recently have tested positive for COVID-19 and their samples have been sent for genome sequencing to check whether it is a new strain detected in the UK, an official said Tuesday. As many as 1,740 people have returned to Haryana from the […]