Articles about COVID-19

India on Tuesday reported over 1,600 new COVID-19 cases, a decline of more than 300 cases from the previous day.

According to Oxfam, the COVID-19 pandemic has created a new billionaire every 30 hours while one million people are now at risk of falling into poverty amid soaring global inflation.

The first cases of the BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 have been found in Tamil Nadu and Telangana, respectively, the Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium (INSACOG) confirmed on Sunday.

Saudi Arabia has barred its citizens from traveling to 16 countries, including India, following the re-emergence of COVID-19 cases.

India on Monday reported over 2,000 new COVID-19 cases, a decline of around 200 cases from the previous day.

Three members of a family were found dead in an apartment in Delhi's Vasant Vihar neighborhood on Saturday in what appeared to be a case of multiple suicides.

The stage is set for the World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos, Switzerland.

India on Sunday reported over 2,200 new COVID-19 cases, around 100 cases less than the previous day.

To achieve the "zero-COVID-19" goal in China, over 13,000 Beijing residents who tested negative have been forced into quarantine.

India on Saturday reported over 2,300 new COVID-19 cases, a slight increase of around 70 cases from the previous day.

India on Thursday reported over 2,300 new COVID-19 cases, a significant increase of over 500 cases from the previous day.

India on Wednesday reported over 1,800 new COVID-19 cases, an increase of nearly 300 cases from the previous day.

India on Tuesday reported over 1,500 new COVID-19 cases, a decline of nearly 700 cases from the previous day.

India on Monday reported over 2,200 new COVID-19 cases, a decline of over 250 cases from the previous day.

India on Sunday reported nearly 2,500 new COVID-19 cases, slightly less than the previous day.

Just days after North Korea reported its first COVID-19 case, an explosion in the number of infections rocked the country on Sunday.

India on Saturday reported nearly 2,900 new COVID-19 cases, a marginal increase from the previous day.

A day after North Korea acknowledged its first-ever COVID-19 outbreak, the nation said six people have died and thousands have shown symptoms of fever.

India on Friday reported over 2,800 new COVID-19 cases, a marginal increase from the previous day.

Confirming its first COVID-19 case on Thursday, North Korea ordered a nationwide lockdown calling it the "gravest national emergency."

India on Thursday reported over 2,800 new COVID-19 cases, a decline of 70 cases from the previous day.

India on Wednesday reported over 2,800 new COVID-19 cases, an increase of over 600 cases from the previous day.

Late Indian Reuters photojournalist Danish Siddiqui has been posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of India's COVID-19 deaths along with his colleagues Adnan Abidi, Sanna Irshad Mattoo, and Amit Dave.

India on Monday reported over 3,200 new COVID-19 cases, a decline of around 250 cases from the previous day.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on Saturday unveiled a slew of social welfare schemes on the first anniversary of the DMK government in the state.

India on Saturday reported over 3,800 new COVID-19 cases, an increase of more than 250 cases from the previous day.

India on Friday reported over 3,500 new COVID-19 cases, an increase of more than 250 cases from the previous day.

After a gap of over two years—courtesy of the COVID-19 pandemic—the doors (kapat) of the holy temple of Kedarnath Dham in Uttarakhand finally opened for devotees on Friday.

The Asian Games 2022, which were set to be held from September 10-25 in Hangzhou, have been postponed due to the novel coronavirus pandemic.

India on Thursday strongly objected to a new World Health Organization report, which claims India witnessed nearly 10 times higher COVID-19 deaths in 2020-21 than the official figures.

India on Thursday reported over 3,200 new COVID-19 cases, an increase of around 75 cases from the previous day.

With 71 fresh COVID-19 cases being reported at the Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law in Punjab's Patiala on Wednesday, the number of positive cases has risen to 86, prompting authorities to declare the campus a containment zone.

India saw a 6% rise in deaths in 2020—the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic—compared to 2019, showed the Civil Registration System (CRS) data released by the Centre on Tuesday.

India on Wednesday reported over 3,200 new COVID-19 cases, an increase of around 700 cases from the previous day.

India on Tuesday reported over 2,500 new COVID-19 cases, a decline of around 600 cases from the previous day.

The country's first case of COVID-19 Omicron sub-variant XE has been confirmed by the Centre's Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Sequencing Consortium (INSACOG).

India on Monday reported over 3,100 new COVID-19 cases, a decline of around 200 cases from the previous day.

The Supreme Court on Monday said no individual can be forced to get vaccinated as "bodily integrity is part of the fundamental right to life under Article 21."

Scientists in South Africa have found that new Omicron subvariants—BA.4 and BA.5—are capable enough to evade immunity and trigger a new COVID-19 wave, Reuters reported.

The current surge in India's daily COVID-19 cases cannot be considered the fourth wave of the pandemic, a top Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) official said on Sunday.