US-based Gilead Sciences' remdesivir, a potential antiviral drug to treat COVID-19 patients and is under several trials around the world, has reportedly failed to produce desired results during a Chinese trial study, the Financial Times reported on Thursday....
As the United States is buffeted by the Covid-19 pandemic, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has discussed the availability of medicines with India's External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, the State Department Spokesperson Morgan Ortagus said on Thursday....
Before the lockdown and 30 days into the lockdown, Indias positivity rate has remained 4.5 per cent, despite a 24-fold increase in testing, the Centre said on Thursday....
Muslim clerics in Kerala on Thursday announced that the holy month of Ramadan would begin on Friday....
The Congress top leadership seems to be upset over a series of events in Palghar, Maharashtra, where two sadhus were lynched last week, triggering a political row where Congress interim chief Sonia Gandhi's name was dragged by the BJP and a TV channel....
Gujarat saw another 217 COVID-19 cases added on Thursday to its total, taking it to 2,624, the state with second highest number of positive cases after Maharashtra in the country....
A month into the nation-wide lockdown, the total number of Covid-19 cases in the country mounted to 21,700 as on Thursday evening, the Union Health Ministry said....
Beijing has denied permission to American scientists to visit Wuhan Institute of Virology or any other part of China to investigate the origin of the novel coronavirus. ...
Researchers have found that nearly all coronavirus (COVID-19) hospitalised patients placed on mechanical ventilators in New York's largest health system have died. ...
Partial relaxation in the extended lockdown has begun across Karnataka, excluding coronavirus hotspots and containment areas, according to an official here on Thursday....
