Seoul [South Korea], August 23 (ANI/Xinhua): South Korea reported 1,418 more cases of COVID-19 as of midnight Sunday compared to 24 hours ago, raising the total number of infections to 237,782.
Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh) [India], August 22 (ANI): Two people were killed and four were injured when a cylinder used for inflating balloons exploded in the Ramnagar area of Varanasi on Sunday, the police said.
Seoul [South Korea], August 22 (ANI): South Korean tech giant Samsung introduced the Galaxy Tab S7 FE in India in June, but it only launched the LTE variant of the tablet in the country. Now the company will launch the Wi-Fi version in India soon.
Washington [US], August 21 (ANI): The virus that causes COVID-19 today is not the same as the one that made people fall sick way back in December 2019. Many of the variants circulating now are partially resistant to some of the antibody-based therapeutics that were developed based on the ori
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], Aug 20 (ANI): Equity benchmark indices closed over half a per cent lower on Friday with steel stocks being under selling pressure as a sharp plunge in iron ore futures across the world spooked investors.
Jerusalem [Israel] August 19 (ANI/FENA): New restrictions on controlling the spread of coronavirus came into force in Israel on Wednesday, after Prime Minister Naftali Bennett called on citizens to get vaccinated, and after the highest daily number of coronavirus infected since January.
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], August 19 (ANI): An Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) study conducted in Chennai has found that the Delta variant has the potential to infect both vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals, but it reduces mortality among the former group.
Washington [US], August 18 (ANI): Despite causing a surge in infections this summer that has resulted in thousands of hospitalizations and deaths, the delta variant of the virus that causes COVID-19 is not particularly good at evading antibodies generated by vaccination, according to a study
Auckland [New Zealand], August 18 (ANI): New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced a nationwide lockdown after the country confirmed the first locally transmitted COVID-19 since February.
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], August 17 (ANI): Out of the total samples sent for genome sequencing of COVID-19 positive patients in Maharashtra, 80 per cent of samples have tested positive for Delta variant, according to the state health department.
Mumbai (Maharastra) [India], August 17 (ANI): As many as ten new cases of Delta Plus variant of COVID-19 has been detected in Maharashtra, according to the state health department.
Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh) [India], August 16 (ANI): The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) personnel celebrated Independence Day on Sunday even as rescue and relief operations continued in flood-hit Varanasi.