Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi today said evidence that the coronavirus emerged in multiple locations around the world is growing, although China was the first country to report the pathogen.

Twenty-three people have died from Covid-19 in 24 hours (till 8am today), according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

India’s drug regulator approved a coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University for emergency use, two sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has granted emergency validation to the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, paving the way for countries worldwide to quickly approve its import and distribution.

Seventeen people have died from Covid-19 in 24 hours (till 8am today), according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Only about 2.8 million Americans had received a Covid-19 vaccine going into the last day of December, putting the United States far short of the government’s target to vaccinate 20 million people this month.

China has confirmed its first case of a new coronavirus variant that was recently detected in Britain, health officials said.

India today announced it would conduct a dry run of Covid-19 vaccine roll-out in all the states on January 2.

Twenty-eight people have died with Covid-19 infection in 24 hours (till 8am today) across the country.

Indian authorities clamped night curfew and other curbs in Delhi and Mumbai cities and Odisha state to prevent public gatherings for New Year celebrations in order to check the spread of Covid-19.

Twenty-two people have died from Covid-19 in 24 hours (till 8:00am today), according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Britain today became the first country in the world to approve a coronavirus vaccine developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca as it battles a major winter surge driven by a new, highly contagious variant of the virus.

By end of February 2020, it was very clear that the pandemic will hit the country hard. SAJIDA’s programs immediately shifted gears to align their activities with national efforts to combat COVID-19. Preparations started to convert SAJIDA’s 50-bed Hospital at Narayanganj into a dedicated COVID-19 hospital under an MoU signed with Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Bangladesh on 21st March 2020.

Nearly half a million residents in the Chinese city where the novel coronavirus first emerged may have been infected with Covid-19 -- almost 10 times the official number of confirmed cases, reports CNN quoting a study by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

West Bengal reported its first case of a mutated coronavirus strain that emerged in the United Kingdom, taking the total number of such patients across India to 21, officials said today.

Thirty people have died from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours (till 8:00am today), according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Britain must vaccinate two million people a week to avoid a third wave of the coronavirus outbreak, a study by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) has concluded.

India found a total of six cases of the mutated coronavirus strain detected in the United Kingdom among the London returnees to the country.

The Serum Institute of India, the world’s largest vaccine producer by volume, has already produced around 50 million dosages of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine ''Covishield'' and plans to scale it up to 100 million by March next year, a top company official said today.

The Committee for the Protection of Fundamental Rights today demanded transparency and accountability in the procurement and distribution of Covid-19 vaccines.