Gandhinagar: Sixteen persons tested positive for Covid-19 in Gujarat in 24 hours ending Saturday evening, the state health department said in its bulletin. No death was reported during this period. Currently, the state has 162 active cases of Covid-19, of which 4 are on ventilator and 158 are stable. The death toll stands at 10,082....

New Delhi: The number of new cases of Covid-19 on Friday saw a drop of 6 per cent from the previous day. There were 42,618 fresh cases in last 24 hours, the health ministry said on Saturday morning. A total of 330 patients succumbed to the infection during this period. The total number of cases...

Samples were collected from Sabarmati river, Kankaria and Chandola lakes by IIT-Gandhinagar over a few weeks; researchers call for testing of all water sources across India Ahmedabad: Samples of water from the Sabarmati river in Ahmedabad have shown the presence of coronavirus. Besides Sabarmati, samples from Kankaria and Chandola lakes, too, have tested positive for...

Pravin Joshi, Ahmedabad: The first two years of Modi 2.0 has been historical. Historical in many senses. From revocation of Article 370 to promulgation of CAA, and from securing verdict for Ram temple construction to handling the deadliest pandemic of the century – Modi’s 24 months tenure has been action filled 24X7. The second term...

In what could be a cause of concern for the Centre and the state governments, more cases of people being infected with the mutated variants of COVID-19 are being reported in India. According to the Union health ministry, four cases of the South African variant of coronavirus have been reported in India so far. The...

After a two-week suspension over the highly contagious mutant strain of coronavirus detected in the UK, flight services between India and the UK have resumed. Notably, an Air India flight from the UK carrying 246 passengers aboard landed in Delhi on Friday. The development comes at a time when the number of people in India...

The tally of people infected with the mutated strain of coronavirus first detected in the UK is rising and has now touched 38. The development comes at a time when the daily surge of COVID-19 cases in India is hovering around 20,000 from the over 90,000 cases reported daily at the peak of the pandemic....

The tally of people infected with the new strain of coronavirus first detected in the UK is on the rise in India. Five fresh cases of the new strain of coronavirus have been detected in India. Following the surge, the total tally of people who returned from the UK and were found infected with the...

Amid more cases of the mutated coronavirus strain from the UK being detected in India, the Union government on Wednesday extended the ban on flights to and from the UK. The ban that was applicable till December 31 has now been extended till January 7. Notably, India had initially banned UK flights on December 23...

The Union government is contemplating to extend the ban on flights between the UK and India due to the new strain of coronavirus detected in Britain. The ban on flights between the two countries is already applicable till December 31. The ban on flights was implemented from December 23 Union civil aviation minister Hardeep Singh...

In what could be a cause of concern for the government, six persons who returned to India from the UK have tested positive for the new UK variant genome of coronavirus. The revelation came from the Union health ministry at a time when the daily surge in COVID-19 cases is on the decline. The ministry...

The health ministry on Tuesday informed that no mutation in the coronavirus strain found in India has been detected so far, but there is a need to stay cautious. The ministry added that the new strain of the coronavirus detected in the UK has increased the transmissibility of the virus, but it is not affecting...