Stock Market Updates Today: Sectorally, except for IT and pharma index, all the other indices ended with decent gains. Private, PSU Bank and financial indices closed 3% higher today.

In the early days of COVID-19 outbreak last year, India relied on imports from leading medical companies like Roche Diagnostic, Korea's S.D Biosensor, Siemens Healthcare, Thermofisher, Abbott Healthcare, apart from Chinese and South Korean manufacturers

The revised standard operating procedures (SOPs) for international arrivals issued by the Health Ministry on February 17 comes in the wake of mutant variants of Covid-19 virus driving the pandemic in these countries

Stock Market Live News Today: Sensex and Nifty continued hitting new all-time highs today. Both benchmarks hit fresh lifetime highs of 51,523 and 15,159 earlier today

The review, of more than 40 publicly available documents and research papers in Chinese and English, shows BGI's links to the People's Liberation Army (PLA) include research with China's top military supercomputing experts

Comprehensive contact tracing has been initiated for co-travellers, family contacts and others.  Genome sequencing on other specimens is going on, says the government

As on date, India's active caseload stands at 2,43,953. India's COVID-19 recoveries are inching closer to one crore

This development comes amid reports of 14 new cases of the new COVID-19 strain in India, taking the number to 20

The new coronavirus strain has so far been detected in the US, Denmark, Netherlands, Australia, Italy, Sweden, France, Spain, Switzerland, Germany, Canada, Japan, Lebanon and Singapore

It is important from the scientific community perspective that we do not put too much immune pressure on the virus, said Bhargava

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According to an order issued by the health department, private laboratories have been asked to charge Rs 800 for testing samples collected by government teams and collected from collection sites by private sector labs as requisitioned by districts and hospitals

RT-PCR test, which in some states costs as high as Rs 2400, will be conducted in mobile labs at the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) headquarters in New Delhi for free

SpiceHealth has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Indian Council of Medical Research for setting up testing facilities and collection centres across the nation.

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

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

On August 11, 2020, the Sputnik V vaccine developed by the Gamaleya National Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology was registered by the Ministry of Health of Russia

India Stock Market Highlights Today: Global equities were negative today as worries about a surge in coronavirus cases and dwindling hopes for a U.S. stimulus package kept investors gloomy

India Stock Market Highlights Today: ICICI Bank, followed by Asian Paints, Reliance Industries, PowerGrid, Nestle India and SBI were among the top losers today. On the other hand, Bajaj Finserv, Bajaj Finance, Bharti Airtel, L&T and UltraTech Cement were among the gainers

The minister also said that based on tests of over 2,000 patients during the trials at the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB) and on testing in private labs, the test showed 96 per cent sensitivity and 98 per cent specificity