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Virus collides with politics as German election year starts

3:48 pm January 9, 2021

Berlin: The coronavirus pandemic is colliding with politics as Germany embarks on its vaccination drive and one of the most unpredictable election years in the country’s post-World War II history. After months of relatively harmonious pandemic management, fingers are being pointed as the center-left junior partner in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition government takes aim at what it says has been a […]

EU agency approves Moderna”s COVID-19 vaccine

7:41 pm January 6, 2021

Amsterdam: The European Unions medicines agency gave the green light Wednesday to Moderna Inc.s COVID-19 vaccine, a decision that gives the 27-nation bloc a second vaccine to use in the desperate battle to tame the virus rampaging across the continent. The approval recommendation by the European Medicines Agencys human medicines committee — which must be rubber stamped by the EUs executive […]

Rajasthan records three more Covid deaths, 55 new cases

India detects total 71 cases of the new UK mutant strain

4:19 pm January 6, 2021

New Delhi: The number of people who have tested positive for the new UK variant of SARS-CoV-2 in the country has climbed to 71, the Union Health Ministry said on Wednesday. These 71 cases include the 58 which were announced by the ministry till Tuesday. “The total number of cases infected with the new strain […]

Germany reports more than 1,000 deaths in a day

3:34 pm December 30, 2020

Berlin: German authorities have reported more than 1,000 coronavirus-related deaths in one day for the first time since the pandemic began. The national disease control center, the Robert Koch Institute, said Wednesday that 1,129 deaths were reported over the past 24 hours. That exceeds the previous record set a week ago of 962 and brings […]

Encounter on between security forces, terrorists in Poonch

Delhi: Samples of 15 who came from UK sent to check new strain of virus

9:16 pm December 29, 2020

New Delhi: Coronavirus test samples of 15 persons who recently arrived here from the UK and tested positive for COVID-19 have been sent for genome sequencing to check if they have contracted the new variant of the virus, sources said on Tuesday. The results are expected in the next three-four days, they said. The new […]