COVID-19

Even as the COVID-19 situation in India seems to be under control, the threat of third-wave hitting the country soon looms large amid a record surge in UK, US, Russia.

On Sunday, actress turned politician Urmila Matondkar took to her social media and informed her fans that she has tested positive for the coronavirus.

Amid the recent spurt in COVID cases in the country, the Chinese government has imposed a lockdown on Lanzhou city of 4 million to curb the spread.

The United States has lifted much of the restrictions but issued new guidelines for most foreign national air travellers to curb the spread of COVID-19.

The Saudi government has lifted social distancing measures, allowing full-capacity attendance at the Grand Mosque in the holy city of Mecca

Bharat Biotech's Covaxin got DGCI's approval on Tuesday for usage on kids. Now children from 2 years to 18 years can be vaccinated against covid-19.

The central government on Tuesday extended the nationwide Covid-19 containment measures till October 31 in view of localised spreads of the virus in a few states

Mumbai has reported around 497 coronavirus cases and five fresh deaths on Thursday this takes the infection count to 7,39,861 and the toll to 16,068.

India has reported 34,403 new Covid positive cases and 320 deaths in 24 hours. The active case count has increased to 3,39,056.

Maharashtra on Tuesday reported 3,530 new coronavirus cases and 52 fresh deaths, taking the infection tally to 65,04,147 and the toll to 1,38,22,

Over the past few weeks Mumbai recorded a surge in COVID-19 cases. Mayor Kishori Pednekar recently said that the third wave of COVID is already upon Mumbai

The Centre has issued guidelines to help people identify whether they are being given authentic vaccines against Covid-19,