Vaccines will be given free of cost at govt centres. Amount people will need to pay in private hospitals will be decided by health ministryin 3-4 days, says Union minister Prakash Javadekar

The market in Wuhan, in the end, was more of an amplifying event rather than necessarily a true ground zero, said Dominic Dwyer, part of the WHO team that visited Wuhan

The commissioner said that these cases were detected between February 15 and 22, following which nine mobile teams were deployed and 500 RT-PCR samples were taken

Only two states, Maharashtra and Kerala, account for 75.87 per cent of the total number of active COVID-19 cases, as per the union health ministry

In a stern warning, Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray warned people that there will be a total lockdown in the state if people don't start wearing face masks. The statement comes amid increasing cases of COVID-19 in Maharashtra. CM Uddhav Thackeray's ultimatum to the people comes just after a total lockdown was imposed in Amravati, Achalpur cities of the state for a week. A partial lockdown has been imposed in five districts including Amravati, Akola, Buldhana, Washim and Yavatmal. Watch the video for more details.

The vaccines currently approved for emergency use in India are Covishield, from the Oxford-AstraZeneca stable manufactured by Pune's Serum Institute of India, and Covaxin, developed by Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech in collaboration with the Indian Council of Medical Research and the National Institute of Virology (NIV)

China shared the genetic sequence with WHO in early January. However, scientists studying the origin had indicated that the virus might have been spreading long before it was officially reported

Budget Session 2021: Chief Economic Advisor KV Subramanian launches Economic Survey; says India took \"short term pain for long term gain\" and recognised that GDP growth will recover, lost human lives cannot be brought back, adds the CEA

Dr Harsh Vardhan attributes success to \"preemptive, proactive and collaborative\" efforts taken by countries affected by global pandemic. He says despite wide disparity in epidemiological trends, world is close to defeating pandemic

According to the ICMR, 19,01,48,024 samples have been tested up to January 21 with 8,00,242 samples being tested on Thursday

The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 1,02,28,753, pushing the national COVID-19 recovery rate to 96.66 per cent

According to a statement issued by the department, 18,122 \"corona warriors\" had been vaccinated on the inaugural day, while 14,745 received the jabs on Monday

Police are also probing if other officials helped Gawande to get the bribes as well as the number of flyers he cleared with fake document

With eight different coronavirus spike fragments, the scientists said this vaccine platform can generate a diverse antibody response -- an advantage over traditional vaccine methods that present pieces from only a single type of virus

Coronavirus pandemic: Without the uniform implementation of effective face masking and strict social distancing, epidemics could quickly worsen as these variants spread and become predominant, said the task force

Critics have said that the country's immunisation campaign is running behind its regional peers and have questioned why the government has not moved more swiftly

Classes from 9 to 12 in schools, last year classes of university and college, coaching centers and government training institutes have been directed to be opened from 18 January, says CM Ashok Gehlot

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

Experts believe that the real numbers of US deaths and infections are much higher and that many cases were overlooked, in part because of insufficient testing

Coronavirus pandemic: In December, the UK government reported a variant, which was referred to as SARS-CoV-2 VOC 202012/01. This variant is not phylogenetically related to the SARS-CoV-2 virus