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Covid-19: What you need to know today

Coronavirus update: Containment and zoning are actually good approaches to dealing with Covid-19 given the geographical concentration of cases. This has been known since Wuhan, and how the Chinese dealt with it, but merits repetition.

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Covid-19 update: 50,000 cases and counting, fresh spikes in urban centres

The latest 10,000 infections were recorded in three days, two fewer than it took for the Covid-19 tally to go from about 30,000 to 40,000. It took seven days for the cases to climb from 20,000 to 30,000.

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Pfizer injects first US patients in Covid-19 vaccine clinical trial, more on way

US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc has administered the first US patients with its experimental vaccine and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals said an antibody treatment could be available by this fall.

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'It's possible there'll be some': Trump admits US reopening will cost more lives

Trump’s November reelection campaign is reeling from the massive shutdown ordered to try and stop the spread of the virus, which has already killed 70,000 Americans and is forecast to take tens of thousands more lives.

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Post-Covid-19, the world will change. Here are 7 ways how this could happen

There is more than a reasonable chance that great power rivalry, parochial national interests and raw geopolitics rule the roost in a post-Covid-19 world, writes Mohan Kumar.

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Tablighi Jamaat chief's son questioned by police about 20 missing people: Report

Maulana Saad has been under fire for organising a congregation of the Jamaat in Delhi in March which fuelled a spike in Covid-19 cases in the national capital.

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Scientists tell PM Modi 30 Covid-19 vaccines in different stages of development

Prime Minister Modi on Tuesday chaired a meeting of the task force on coronavirus vaccine development and took a detailed review of the current status of India’s steady efforts in vaccine development

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Yellow.ai deploys 30% of global generative AI bots domestically

While markets like the US are mostly using GenAI for customer support in a bid to cut costs, India Inc. is using them as an opportunity to g...