Amid a resurgence of Covid cases across Southeast Asia and Europe, the government on Thursday warned states not to let their guard down and advised them to continue focus on the five-fold strategy of "test, track, treat, follow Covid-appropriate beha
The peak of the third COVID-19 wave driven by the highly transmissible coronavirus variant Omicron is slightly lower than that of the second wave, which swept the country last year and killed lakhs of people, the government said today.
India is battling an Omicron-driven unprecedented Covid surge, and 11 states have registered a weekly positivity rate higher than that of the national average (15.2 per cent) in a worrying trend.
As another election season looms, hate speech by high ranking politicians is surging - by1,130 per cent since the Modi government came into power in 2014, compared to the UPA-2 regime, an NDTV analysis has found.
There will be no mix-and-match of vaccines for those eligible to get a 'precautionary' third dose, Dr VK Paul, the head of India's Covid task force, said Wednesday, meaning those who got Covishield will get the same, as will those who got Covaxin.
Vaccination opened for teens in the 15 to 18 age group today amid the third Covid wave in India as cases surge in multiple cities. Over 40 lakh teens got their first dose on Day 1, Health Minister Dr Mansukh Mandaviya said.
देश के कई शहरों में कोरोना के बढ़ते मामलों के बीच 15 से 18 आयुवर्ग के बच्चों का टीकाकरण किया जा रहा है. बड़ी संख्या में बच्चों ने सरकार के CoWin ऐप पर रजिस्ट्रेशन किया है और सभी को Covaxin की डोज लगाई जाएगी. इस टीकाकरण अभियान के पहले दिन 40 लाख से ज्यादा बच्चों को वैक्सीन की पहली डोज लगाई गई. टीकाकरण कार्यक्रम स्कूलों की सलाह से अस्पतालों और स्वास्थ्य केंद्रों में आयोजित किया जा रहा है. टीकाकरण केंद्रों के रूप में भी बड़ी संख्या में स्कूलों और अन्य शैक्षणिक संस्थानों का इस्तेमाल किया जा रहा है.
Omicron cases in Delhi have shot up from two to three per cent to 25 to 30 per cent of Covid cases in a span of two weeks, a genome sequencing lab in Delhi that's part of INSACOG has said.
Resident doctors' groups in Delhi on Monday threatened a complete shutdown of medical services, alleging a brutal police crackdown on their protest against the delay in college allotments after the NEET postgraduate exam.
Delhi on Friday reported 180 Covid cases in 24 hours - a six-month high. Mumbai reported 680 new cases - a 78-day high. Delhi also has 67 Omicron cases. Maharashtra has 88. Overall, India has 358 Omicron Covid cases so far, the government said.
Two months have passed since a small church in Roorkee, Uttarakhand, was allegedly attacked by a mob of around 200 right-wing Hindutva extremists but no arrests have been made so far.
गुरुग्राम के सेक्टर 37 में मुस्लिम समुदाय के लोग नमाज अदा करने के लिए जुटे थे. इस दौरान कुछ हिंदू समूह के लोगों द्वारा व्यवधान डालने की कोशिश की गई. तनाव उस वक्त बढ़ गया जब हिंदू संगठनों ने वहां पर एक 'प्रार्थना' की.
Muslims offering namaz at a designated open site in Gurgaon's Sector 37 were interrupted once again by right-wing Hindu groups, with tensions mounting as they performed a 'prayer' that claimed to commemorate the 26/11 terror attacks.
