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A medical worker holds a vial of Russias Sputnik V vaccine for Covid-19. (Photo:AP/File)

Sputnik V gives 90 per cent protection against Delta strain, says...

Russia became the first country in the world to register a vaccine against the coronavirus, dubbed Sputnik V, in August...

11 July 2021 12:00 PM IST

ISRO successfully launched PSLV-C51 mission on February 28 with Brazils earth observation satellite Amazonia-1 and 18 co-passengers, including some built by students, on board. (PTI Photo)

ISRO swinging back to full action; plans to launch geo imaging...

The launch was later expected in April and then in May but the campaign could not be taken up due to lockdown in parts...

10 July 2021 5:12 PM IST

The disease was also noted in those patients who were not given steroids, experts state that it is the compromised immunity of human cells that leads to black fungus or mucormycosis. Representational Image (Twitter)

Black fungus found severe in non-vaccinated patients

Nearly 85 per cent of the 700 patients admitted in Government ENT Hospital for black fungus were not vaccinated

10 July 2021 12:00 AM IST

Scientists work with a bioreactor at a company facility in New York state, for efforts on an experimental coronavirus antibody drug. The Food and Drug Administration on Saturday, Nov. 21, 2020 authorized the use of the Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. drug to try to prevent patients with mild-to-moderate disease from worsening and needing hospitalization. Its given as a one-time treatment through an IV and is still going through more testing to establish its safety and effectiveness. (Regeneron via AP)

Scientists find new drug target to treat coronavirus, fight future...

The latest study provides critical information that could aid drug development against future coronaviruses as well as...

8 July 2021 1:15 PM IST

Tamil Nadu has inoculated about 1.41 crore people from out of 1.44 crore vaccines allotted to the state. (PTI Photo)

Pfizer, Moderna vaccines cut COVID-19 risk by 91 per cent: Study

The mRNA vaccines by Pfizer and Moderna contain genetic instructions for our cells to make the spike protein of the...

7 July 2021 3:50 PM IST

The Pfizer CEO said that a significant local manufacturing of vaccines that is happening at the Serum Institute of India will provide the backbone of vaccinating the Indian people. (AFP Photo)

Pfizer Covid vaccine induces -'good-' immune response against...

The group of recovered COVID-19 patients comprised 50 volunteers, aged 19-93, with 33 among them females and 17 males

5 July 2021 3:41 PM IST

Nurses at a 100 bed Covid Care facility inside the campus of Karnataka Power corporation Limited (KPCL), at Yelahanka in Bengaluru, Thursday, July 1, 2021. (PTI/Shailendra Bhojak)

New post-infection treatment for COVID-19 identified

The research team modified GC376 using a tool called deuteration to test its efficacy against SARS-CoV-2

5 July 2021 12:58 PM IST

Janaushadhi Kendras accepting orders on WhatsApp, e-mail to facilitate access to medicines. (PTI Photo)

Large-scale drug analysis reveals potential new COVID-19 antivirals

While COVID-19 vaccines are being rolled out, there are still few drug options that can be used to treat patients with...

4 July 2021 9:16 AM IST

A health worker places medicine strips in a formation that reads CORONA. (Photo: PTI)

Immune boosters are the new fatal attraction

People advised to swear by doctor-'s prescription

4 July 2021 7:19 AM IST

A woman is tended by a nurse at a COVID-19 unit of the Honorio Delgado Hospital in Arequipa, Peru, on June 24, 2021. Due to increased cases of COVID-19 and the Delta variant of the disease, the city has been closed under a strict lockdown for 15 days beginning June 21. (AP/Guadalupe Pardo)

Delta variant is dangerous and is continuing to evolve and mutate: WHO...

Delta variant is expected to rapidly outcompete other variants and become the dominant variant over the coming months

3 July 2021 11:02 AM IST

COVAXIN is one of the three COVID-19 vaccines that are currently available in the country. (Photo: PTI)

Final analysis of Covaxin efficacy out; 65.2 per cent effective...

The efficacy analysis demonstrates Covaxin to be 93.4 per cent effective against severe symptomatic COVID-19 cases

3 July 2021 10:41 AM IST

A Tokyo Metropolitan Government employee takes the Modernas COVID-19 vaccine shot at a newly opened vaccination center in the government building in Tokyo. (Photo: AP)

Will one dose of a two-dose COVID-19 vaccine protect me?

Thereâ€™s a concern the shots eventually might lose their effectiveness if variants evolve enough

2 July 2021 1:02 PM IST