Vaccinations are the safest way to acquire herd immunity. This would only work when the majority of the population is vaccinated

The White House on Saturday called on China to make available data from the earliest days of the novel coronavirus outbreak, saying it had \"deep concerns\" about the way the findings of the WHO's COVID-19 report were communicated

The study, published in the journal Science of The Total Environment, noted that the southern Chinese Yunnan province and neighbouring regions in Myanmar and Laos form a global hotspot of climate change-driven increase in bat richness

The total cases reached 1,08,14,304 with 11,713 new cases in a day; national recovery rate reached 97.19 per cent on Saturday

Budget 2021: Considered to be the lifeline of the country, Railways saw several firsts in 2020 such as passenger operations coming to a halt due to coronavirus pandemic, management restructuring, and kick-starting the process of privatising passenger trains among others

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

Discussing the future of healthcare post-COVID at the Business Today MindRush event on Friday, January 22 , a panel of distinguished experts shared their views on how the present crisis will shape the basics of healthcare in times to come

Key to the success of the pan-India COVID-19 vaccination drive, scheduled to be launched by PM Narendra Modi on January 16, will be the cybersecurity framework India has readied, experts say

Governments are introducing new lockdown measures to halt the spread while facing massive demand for vaccines which are seen as the best way out of the global health crisis

The International Monetary Fund estimates the global economy to have shrunk by 4.4% this year compared with a contraction of just 0.1% in 2009, when the world last faced a financial crisis

Brazil is the first country to complete a late-stage trial of the vaccine, called CoronaVac, but a release of the results, first set for early December, has now been delayed three times

It is estimated that during the prolonged lockdown, the auto industry suffered losses of more than Rs 2,300 crore in turnover for every single day of closure

As per McKinsey's global banking annual review report, the coronavirus pandemic will present a two-stage problem for banks - credit loss and operations challenge - in the months and years to come

According to its report on trends in global forced displacement released on Wednesday in Geneva, The UN Refugee Agency UNHCR estimates that global forced displacement surpassed 8 crore at mid-year

Cash-strapped Pakistan's economic woes have further worsened due to the coronavirus pandemic and Imran Khan's government is arranging finances from world bodies, including the International Monetary Fund

WHO's top emergency expert Mike Ryan also cautioned against complacency in the wake of vaccine roll-out, adding although they were a major part of the battle against COVID-19, vaccines would not on their own end the pandemic

The active COVID-19 caseload in India stands at 4,55,555 on Friday which is 4.89 per cent of the total cases, the health ministry said in a statement

The researchers said that COVID-19 infection rates between March and August across 15 countries, including UK, France, Italy, and Belgium were on an average 6.2 times higher than the reported cases

The nation's air safety agency announced the move early Wednesday, saying it was done after a comprehensive and methodical 20-month review process

On Tuesday, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said that his government has decided to withdraw an order allowing 200 guests to attend weddings in the city, and sent the proposal to the LG for approval