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The coronavirus pandemic, which has been raging since late 2019, is showing no signs of fading away soon. One of the main reasons behind its persistent impact is the virus’ power of mutation. Like most viral pathogens, SARS-CoV-2 can mutate fast and adapt to become more infectious, transmit faster, and compromise vaccine-induced or natural immunity.

Every fifteen minutes, for days on end, Lalit Singla heard the cry of ambulance sirens from his home in Gurugram, just southwest of New Delhi. Singla, a former Plymouth resident who moved back to India during the pandemic, watched as COVID-19 infections climbed in his country. “It was a really,...

In response to growing travel demand between the United States and India, American Airlines has increased its flight frequency from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport to Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi. The carrier initially planned to operate the route thrice weekly during off-peak months and increase the route to daily service from Nov. 17 to Jan. 1 to serve the winter season. However, as reported by One Mile at a Time, American has modified the route to operate as a daily, year-round flight beginning Oct 31. The service is part of the carrier’s ambitious expansion out of New York-JFK and new partnership with JetBlue Airways, which it hopes will feed domestic customers into its long-haul operations.

American Airlines has increased the frequency of its new ultra-long-haul route from New York JFK to Delhi. This route is slated to begin started on October 31 later this year. After a nine-year break on this route, when it announced the reopening of this route back in April, it was expected to operate regularly commencing November 17 until January 1 and three weekly flights for the rest of the year.

New Delhi: With close gathering of shoppers in markets and restaurants resuming business amid phased unlock in the national capital, doctors on Tuesday cautioned that Delhi could face a “worse than second wave situation” of COVID-19 if people do not adhere to safety norms or lower their guards. The remarks...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the closure of criminal proceedings in India against two Italian marines, accused of killing two fishermen off the Kerala coast in February 2012. A vacation bench of Justices Indira Banerjee and M R Shah quashed the FIR and proceedings emanating from the...

New Delhi: India saw a single-day rise of 60,471 new coronavirus infections, the lowest after 75 days, taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 2,95,70,881, while the daily positivity rate declined to 3.45 per cent, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Tuesday. The COVID-19 death toll...

A polygamous Y Leader of a sect, who had 39 wives and at least 127 children Y grandchildren, died at 76 years in the northeast of India, reported the authorities. Zionnghaka Chana, who lived in the secluded state of Mizoram What patriarch which is supposed to be one of the largest families in the world, suffered diabetes and hypertension, and expired Sunday in a hospital.

India on Sunday recorded 3,689 COVID-19 deaths, its highest every day toll since the pandemic began. The report demise depend got here because the nation hit 392,488 new circumstances within the earlier 24 hours, bringing its whole to 19.56 million. COVID-19 has killed a minimum of 215,542 folks with the...