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Topic: coronavirus cases

With 28,204 new Covid cases, India registers lowest daily count in 147 days

According to the health ministry data, the active coronavirus cases dropped to 3,88,508 and comprise 1.21% of the total case tally, the lowest since March 2020.

India adds 46,617 new Covid cases, recovery rate surpasses 97%

A net decline of 13,620 cases has been recorded in the total number of active Covid cases in a span of 24 hours, the health ministry report stated.

Blocked by Eli Lilly, Bajaj Healthcare moves patent office to make Covid drug Baricitinib

BHL says it can produce Baricitinib for as cheap as Rs 14 (for 1mg). US pharma giant Eli Lilly, which holds exclusive licence for the drug, manufactures it at an average cost of Rs 3,230.

Coronavirus could possibly spread through faeces of infected patients, ICMR study finds

The study by the Indian Council of Medical Research-National Institute of Virology, Pune, observed a family of four patients and found the presence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in all their stool samples.

India records 1.32 lakh new Covid cases, recovery rate crosses 93%

According to health ministry data, daily positivity was recorded at 6.38% while active cases were below 20 lakh for the fourth consecutive day.

India adds 1.32 lakh new Covid cases, active infections stay below 20 lakh for second day

According to health ministry data, the country recorded 3,207 Covid deaths in the last 24 hours and the daily positivity rate dropped to 6.57%.

India records 1.27 lakh new Covid cases, 2,795 deaths in last 24 hours

According to health ministry data, the death toll was the lowest reported in 35 days, and total active cases have gone below 20 lakh after 43 days.

Before Wuhan row, how US-China created SARS-like virus in 2015 to show its pandemic potential

The 2015 study is an example of a ‘gain of function’ research that scientists from University of North Carolina in US & China's Wuhan Institute of Virology had been involved in for several years.

Desperate Indians are calling Switzerland for oxygen concentrators

For the past two weeks, retailers Raphael Koch and Dino Vivarelli have been busy fielding a flurry of phone calls, mostly from Indians looking for oxygen concentrators.

Patients lying unattended, ambulance queue, pleas for bed — horror outside Delhi hospitals

A woman lost her husband as he lay unattended & a 38-year-old man was declared brought dead after several hospitals turned him down — scenes outside GTB, LNJP hospitals were scary.

On Camera

Postcards from Hyderabad—stories Europeans told about the city

For all their colonial underpinnings, postcards from Hyderabad also inadvertently preserve a trace of local memory: a glimpse of a street, a face, a forgotten name.

Navigating Trump’s tariffs is no child’s play. Indian toymakers are losing out on orders, enquiries

Indian toymakers are now exploring new markets, but they want govt to negotiate a trade deal with US soon, introduce incentives and subsidies to make the industry more competitive.

What is Project Sudarshan Chakra, announced by Modi from ramparts of Red Fort

The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?