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Online providers ramp up vaccinations to allay consumer fears 22 May, 2021 - 09:32 AM IST     |     By indiantelevision.com Team     Mumbai:  E-commerce companies have launched a rampant vaccination drive for their frontline staffers and delivery partners who interface with consumers who worry about possible transmission of the newer and more virulent strains of Covid-19. This comes in the wake of most e-tailer and logistics firms reporting infections among their frontline staffers who are on daily delivery missions of food and essential products such as medicines, healthcare pac...

In a first, an 'Oxygen Express' train piloted by an 'All Female Crew' arrived in Bengaluru on Saturday with 120 tonnes of medical oxygen from Jamshedpur.

Rural and semi-urban India largely escaped the first wave. Now millions of people are left to fend for themselves as the virus moves into new areas.

    The coronavirus pandemic claimed more than 3 million excess deaths, or 1.2 million more than officially reported, in the year 2020, according to a new report by the World Health Organisation on Friday. While the WHO's official death toll due to Covid-19 is around 3.4 million so far, the actual number could be at least 6-8 million, showed the global health body's annual World Health Statistics report 2021. "This number would truly be two to three times higher. So I think safely about 6-to-8 million deaths could be an estimate on a cautionary note," WHO's Assistant Director General for Da...

URL copied COVID patient commits suicide in Maharashtra's Beed. A 35-year-old COVID-19 patient allegedly committed suicide in a private hospital in Beed on Friday, police said. The man hung himself from an iron rod, an official said, adding that the exact reason why he took this step was being probed. His wife told reporters she was constantly in touch with her husband over phone as hospital authorities had barred anyone from meeting him, adding that the talk also involved the farm loan he had taken.