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This image provided by Pfizer in October 2021 shows the companys COVID-19 Paxlovid pills. U.S. health regulators on Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2021 authorized the first pill against COVID-19, a Pfizer drug that Americans will be able to take at home to head off the worst effects of the virus. (Pfizer via AP)

Chandrakant Lahariya | FDA approval of Covid pill a sign of hope for...

The US Food and Drugs Administration approved an oral Covid-19 drug Paxlovid. Molnupiravir, too, received emergency...

24 Dec 2021 12:27 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (Photo: PTI file photo)

Fight against Covid is not over yet, says PM

Modi directed the officials to work with the state authorities on a regular basis

24 Dec 2021 12:03 AM IST

Health workers inside an Isolation Ward for COVID-19 to treat persons infected with the Omicron variant, at Omandhurar Government Medical College Hospital, in Chennai, Monday, Dec. 6, 2021. (PTI Photo)

Omicron less likely to put you in the hospital, studies say

The findings have not yet been reviewed by other experts, the gold standard in scientific research

23 Dec 2021 2:25 PM IST

Medics from NMMC Health Department take swab samples of students for RT-PCR test at Shetkari Shikshan Sanstha School at Ghansoli, in Navi Mumbai. (Photo: PTI)

Virus gave Mumbai see-saw ride in 2021

On April 4, 2021, the city recorded 11,163 new cases, the highest-ever spike

23 Dec 2021 1:25 PM IST

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of World Health Organization (AFP)

Boosters may prolong COVID pandemic, warns WHO chief

Unrestrained end-of-year celebrations could still prove to be major source of new infections, the WHO warned

23 Dec 2021 12:21 PM IST

A healthcare volunteer inoculates an elderly man with COVID-19 vaccine dose at her home in Mumbai. (Photo: PTI)

Over 60 per cent eligible population fully vaccinated against COVID:...

The Ministry said that the country administered 70,17,671 vaccine doses in the last 24 hours

23 Dec 2021 12:20 PM IST

A medical worker guides people as they wait for their coronavirus test at a makeshift testing site in Seoul, South Korea. (Photo: AP)

South Korea marks deadliest day of pandemic as omicron looms

The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency said a record 109 people died in the last 24-hour period

23 Dec 2021 11:54 AM IST

A worker carries an oxygen concentrator inside the COVID-19 facility of Commonwealth Games Village in view of the rising Omicron cases in New Delhi, Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2021. (PTI/Shahbaz Khan)

India records 236 Omicron cases; 7,495 new coronavirus infections

Maharashtra has recorded the maximum 65 cases of the Omicron variant followed by Delhi at 64, Telangana 24, Karnataka 19

23 Dec 2021 10:39 AM IST

Poster of the documentary Writing with Fire. (Photo: Twitter/@RintuThomas11)

'Writing with Fire' documentary shortlisted as India's official entry...

'Writing with Fire' is a feature documentary about a newspaper 'Khabar Lahariya' started as a social experiment by an...

23 Dec 2021 10:16 AM IST

Novavax says COVID vaccine triggers immune response to Omicron variant

Novavax said it is working on developing an Omicron-specific vaccine and expects to begin manufacturing its doses in...

23 Dec 2021 9:53 AM IST

Farmers sort tomatoes near a field before being be transported to other cities, during the nationwide lockdown imposed in wake of coronavirus pandemic, at Murbad Taluka in Thane. PTI photo

Prices of tomatoes down by 13 per cent in last one week, 24 per cent...

The latest price of tomatoes on Tuesday was Rs 47.25 per kg

23 Dec 2021 9:19 AM IST

Paramedics and policemen stand next to the body of a Kashmiri man at a hospital in Srinagar, in Kashmir on Wednesday, Dec 22, 2021. Suspected rebels shot and killed a civilian on Wednesday evening officials said. (AP /Mukhtar Khan)

Civilian, cop shot dead by terrorists in Kashmir

A 45-year-old resident, Rouf Ahmed Khan, was fatally shot by gunmen in Srinagar's Mirjanpora, Idgah area

23 Dec 2021 8:49 AM IST