'Children and adolescents were less susceptible to infection but more infectious once infected, than individuals aged 20 years or older,' the study said.

Scientists working at the Wuhan lab confessed to being bitten by COVID-19 infected bats in a cave while collecting samples.

WHO's Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was not pleased with China's blockage. He expressed his dismay in a statement and urged China to allow the WHO team to enter the country

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The scientists found that the mutated virus not only replicates about 10 times faster but it was also much more infectious

The Indian Embassy here on Monday announced that Air India is planning to operate four flights to Delhi on November 13, November 20, November 27 and December 4, 2020, respectively, the Indian Embassy here announced

Videh Kumar Jaipuriar, CEO-DIAL said that the COVID-19 testing laboratory at Delhi Airport is adequately equipped for testing and sample collection which will be conducted in compliance with the protocols established by ICMR and NABL

Air India said, 'All our passengers to Wuhan boarded the flight from Delhi with negative Covid reports from certified labs'. The airline added it strictly follows all safety protocols laid down by the regulatory body

India's fuel demand shrinks 4.4% to 15.47 mn tonnes in SeptIndia's fuel demand fell about 4.4% in September compared with a year earlier, data from the Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell (PPAC) of the Oil Ministry showed on Friday.Consumption of fuel, a proxy for oil demand, totalled 15.47 million tonnes, the data showed. Demand for diesel, which is widely used for transportation as well as for irrigation needs in India, declined 6% year-on-year to 5.49 million tonnes.RBI keeps repo rate ...

China was the first to report the outbreak, identified the pathogen and shared the genome sequence with the world, said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson

Stating that an effective vaccine would be the sure shot tool in containing COVID-19, Dr Vardhan said more than 30 vaccine candidates are in different stages of development in India

A Chinese virologist currently based out of Hong Kong has claimed that the new coronavirus was created in a lab in Wuhan

The WHO advance team that traveled to China has now concluded their mission to lay the groundwork for further joint efforts to identify the virus' origins

Industry experts say this could be only an aspirational target and directive to speed up the trials, than a realistic move to get the vaccine launched within one and a half months

Bharat Biotech isn't committing a timeline, but considering the necessary processes, and if COVAXIN does not fail at any stage, the earliest it could hit the market is late 2021

WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus further said, \"No excuse for contact tracing. If any country is saying contact tracing is difficult, it is a lame excuse\"

Although WHO continued to publicly commend China, the recordings obtained by the AP show they were concerned China was not sharing enough information to assess the risk posed by the new virus, costing the world valuable time

He has so far not given any indication of the steps that he is contemplating taking against China. Trump had on May 14 threatened to \"cut off the whole relationship\" with China

Twitter fact-checked U.S. President Donald Trump for the first time on Tuesday over his claims about mail-in ballots, under what it says was an extension of a \"misleading information policy\" aimed at combating misinformation about COVID-19

On Wednesday, Chinese scientists dismissed the reports that the deadly virus which struck Wuhan and later turned into a pandemic paralysing the world originated in the seafood market in Wuhan