Covid 19

Covid 19

Standard Chartered Covid-19 meal donation

Standard Chartered donates 7,000 Sehri meals to distressed families on behalf of clients

Standard Chartered donates 7000 meals to distressed families during Covid-19

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Congress pushes for full lockdown; says it’s the only way to stop Covid spread

A health worker wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) carries a patient suffering from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outside the casualty ward at Guru Teg Bahadur hospital, in New Delhi, India, April 24, 2021. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi

India clocks 357,229 new Covid-19 cases, infection tally zooms past 20-million mark

A frontline worker ignites a funeral pyre of a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patient who passed away after a hospital caught fire, in Virar, on the outskirts of Mumbai, India, April 23, 2021. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas

India may see 1.02m Covid deaths by August 1: US-based body

FILE PHOTO: Travelers wearing protective face masks make their way through the arrivals section of the international terminal of Kingsford Smith International Airport the morning after Australia implemented an entry ban on non-citizens and non-residents intended to curb the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Sydney, Australia, March 21, 2020. REUTERS/Loren Elliott

Australians returning from India could face 5 years in jail

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi gestures as he addresses a public meeting at Jerenga Pathar in Assam, India, on Jan. 23. BIJU BORO/AFP/GETTY IMAGES/Foreign Policy

Modi fiddles while India burns

A health worker wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) carries a patient suffering from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outside the casualty ward at Guru Teg Bahadur hospital, in New Delhi, India, April 24, 2021. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi

‘It’s like a war’: Inside an India hospital desperate for oxygen

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T cell response to Covid may remain potent after vaccination: Study

Pfizer, Moderna vaccines stop infections in real-world study

Pfizer, Moderna vaccines stop infections in real-world study

FILE PHOTO: A person wearing a face mask walks through a mostly empty domestic terminal at Sydney Airport after surrounding states shut their borders to New South Wales in response to an outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Sydney, Australia, December 21, 2020. REUTERS/Loren Elliott

Australia to halt direct passenger flights from India

A woman wearing a protective face mask walks past a graffiti, amidst the spread of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), on a street in Mumbai, India, March 30, 2021. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas

How do facemasks, distancing reduce the risk of contracting coronavirus?

A man prepares a funeral pyre to cremate the body of a person, who died due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at a crematorium ground in New Delhi, India, April 22, 2021. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui

India sees 323,144 new cases in lowest rise since Apr 22

Travellers pass a sign for a Covid-19 test centre at Heathrow Airport, London, Britain, February 13, 2021. REUTERS/Toby Melville

Gov’t official might have carried ‘Indian variant’ back home in UK