Delhi has a population of more than 2 crore and about half its population was infected at one point and developed antibodies as per the fifth round of serosurvey. The official count of infections is 6.34 lakh

Economic reforms have continued apace and have been supplemented by long-pending reforms in the areas of labour and agriculture through legislation, The President said

India's Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) says Pfizer officials failed to turn up to meetings after the company's application was made in early December

In a letter to chief secretaries of all states and UT, Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla advised them to take penal action against those who are found to be involved in dissemination of wrong and ill-informed rumours regarding safety and immunogenicity of the COVID-19 vaccine candidates

The survey has shown that in a single district of the National Capital, 50-60 per cent of the sampled population has developed COVID-19 antibodies

The high prevalence of coronavirus antibodies indicates that the capital may have reached the stage of herd immunity

Chinese state media and officials are sowing doubts about Western vaccines and the origin of the coronavirus in an apparent bid to deflect the attacks and renewed criticism of its early COVID response

The company will expand Google Search and Maps to make it easier for people to find when and where to get the COVID-19 vaccine at a local level. Pichai added that Google will be opening up its select physical spaces to be used as COVID-19 vaccine sites

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Google's CEO Sundar Pichai says, to help with mass vaccination efforts, starting in the United States, Google will make select facilities such as buildings, parking lots and open spaces available to anyone eligible for the vaccine based on state and local guidelines

In a survey conducted by New Delhi-based online platform LocalCircles, 62% of 17,000 respondents were hesitant to get vaccinated immediately, mainly due to worries over possible adverse reactions

COVID-19 vaccination drive: 1 million jabs administered in India in six days India took only 6 days to administer one million Covid-19 vaccine doses, a count which is higher than that of countries like the US and the UK, the Union Health Ministry said on Sunday as the number of beneficiaries who have received the anti-coronavirus shots inched close to 16 lakh. The UK took 18 days whereas the US took 10 days to reach the one million mark, the ministry said. Budget 2021: COVID-19 crisis emp...

PM Modi will address the meeting virtually on January 28. The other high-profile leaders who have signed up for the virtual session at 51st WEF includes, Nitin Gadkari, Piyush Goyal, Dharmendra Pradhan, Narendra Singh Tomar, and Smriti Irani

COVID-19 immunisation in India: As on January 24, till 8 am, nearly 16 lakh (15,82,201) beneficiaries have received Covid-19 vaccination

Coronavirus vaccine: Additionally, nine out of the 10 cases occurred in patients with previously known allergies. It is still not clear what caused these reaction

As per the guidelines issued by the health ministry on December 28 2020, initially around 30 crore Indians will be vaccinated, including around three crore healthcare and frontline workers

Coronavirus vaccination drive: According to officials, around three lakh health workers will be vaccinated now as they need to take the second dose after a gap of four weeks

While many believed that Sensex may fall to 20,000 levels in the last week of March 2020 as the uncertainty of COVID-19 outbreak weighed supreme, the index has managed to scale 50,000 this month

The U.K., which has Europe's deadliest coronavirus outbreak, adopted the policy in order to give as many people as possible a first dose of vaccine quickly

BT MindRush 2021: India received \"disproportionately large\" amount of foreign portfolio flow in 2020 and this has continued till now in 2021 as well. Besides, he said, most of the emerging markets, except China, reported outflow during the period