NEW DELHI — Calling it a “gross and misleading overestimate”, the Union government on Saturday refuted claims of excess mortality during the Covid-19 pandemic in...

Despite the success in administering vaccines to prevent the COVID-19 pandemic from spreading, progress of India’s national immunisation programme is not at all satisfactory. The...

BRUSSELS — The European Commission did not allow the public enough access to information about COVID-19 vaccine purchase agreements it secured with pharmaceutical companies during...

NEW DELHI — US researchers have identified a protein responsible for causing fatigue in people with long Covid, Alzheimer’s and other diseases. While infections and...

The COVID-19 pandemic wrought unprecedented disruption across all facets of society, and the education sector is no exception. With school closures, shifts to remote learning,...

NEW DELHI — Frequent respiratory viruses and bacteria may have boosted children’s immune systems, saving them from the worst effects of Covid-19, according to a...

DIMAPUR — Yangchen Bhutia arrived in Nagaland’s commercial capital Dimapur in 1997 with the hope of making it big in business but she found herself...

NEW DELHI — India played a key role in helping countries agree to the adoption of International Health Regulations (IHR 2005) at the 77th World...

CHENNAI — The Tamil Nadu government has allocated INR 430 crore for the welfare of children who lost their parents to Covid-19.  A statement from...

SINGAPORE — Singapore is seeing a new COVID-19 wave as the authorities recorded more than 25,900 cases from May 5 to 11 even as Health...