Covid wave

Workers at Beijing crematoriums said Friday they are overwhelmed as China faces a surge in Covid cases that authorities warn could hit its underdeveloped rural hinterland during upcoming public holidays.Covid-19 is spreading rapidly across China after three years of...

Europe is facing a new wave of the Covid-19 pandemic triggered by the highly-transmissible BA.4 and BA.5 sub-variants of Omicron, according to the European Medicines Agency (EMA). “We see a new wave of Covid-19 in many members of the...

The current spike in the number of daily Covid-19 cases in India cannot be termed as the fourth wave of the pandemic, Samiran Panda, Additional Director General of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), told IANS on Sunday. Speaking...

The fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in India may start around June 22 and peak from mid to late August, a modelling study by researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur suggests.The yet-to-be peer-reviewed study, recently posted on...

Nagaland on Tuesday recorded nine fresh Covid-19 positive cases and nil deaths in the last 24 hours.Of the fresh cases, six were from Dimapur and one each in Longleng, Mokokchung and Phek, taking the total caseload to 35372.Further, 1438805...

The third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic has sequentially dampened India’s service sector growth in January 2022.The seasonally adjusted India Services Business Activity Index came in at 51.5 (index reading) for January, lower than 55.5 in December.The PMI ranges...

The 2022 Indian Premier League is all set to be held in India. According to a top BCCI official, the cricket board has taken a decision in this regard.Asked if the IPL could go overseas this year, the BCCI...

75% adults vaccinated against Covid: Modi hails ‘momentous feat’ Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said India is fighting the new wave of Covid with “great success” and asserted that the people’s trust on indigenous vaccines was "our strength".In his...