'This Is Us' creator Dan Fogelman has revealed there will be a delay in filming of the new season due to a coronavirus surge in Los Angeles, where the show is filmed.

'This Is Us' creator reveals show is delayed due to COVID-19 crisis in LA

It may be a little over 9 months but it appears a lifetime, a game-changer and life-transformer. The lockout-pandemic combine converted us suddenly into a nation of cynics, pessimists, philosophers & thinkers re-connecting with long-forgotten, ignored, neglected primal truths that once graced our lives.

Opinion: With post-COVID times on horizon, will OTT-fix go for a toss?

While scientists and health experts are busy in producing vaccines against the deadly coronavirus, a self-proclaimed holy man from Sri Lanka thinks he has found the cure to the virus.

Sri Lanka: People test positive for coronavirus after consuming 'miracle potion'

If you thought 2020 was a hard year because of coronavirus, a UK professor has made a discovery to make you believe that 2021 might not be any better. The year started with the identification of new variants of coronavirus and surged in cases all around the world.

Oral ulcer, teeth cracking may be symptoms of coronavirus: UK professor

Cambodia has become the latest country to request India for COVID-19 vaccine even as New Delhi has been reached out by other countries for it. Cambodian PM Hun Sen had met the Indian envoy to Cambodia Devyani Khobragade and requested for the vaccine.

Vaccine diplomacy: India to begin exports tomorrow, more requests sent

The UK Secretary of State for Health, Matt Hancock, has gone into self-isolation following an alert of contact tracing through the NHS' coronavirus contact tracing app, he said in a video message on Tuesday.

UK's health secretary Matt Hancock self-isolates after fears of coronavirus

Several countries have approved coronavirus vaccines produced in the West and have also started mass coronavirus vaccination drives for their citizens. While it has been a great step to offer vaccines to citizens, the World Health Organization has labelled this as the "brink of a catastrophic moral failure".

WHO chief Tedros slams 'rich' countries and vaccine producers for ignoring 'poor' nations

France and Russia prepared to beef up their coronavirus inoculation programmes next week, even as authorities sought to allay concerns about supplies of the vaccines while the global pandemic shows no sign of being brought under control.

Europe vaccine rollout shifts up a gear as supply worries linger

The bat caves reeked of bat. In the murk of the grottoes, in a cave complex west of Bangkok, Thais in headlamps and with flashlights went about their business. Pilgrims to the temple that owns the complex prayed to Buddha figurines in one of the caves, the statues’ carved expressions betraying no reaction to the plip-plop-ploop of bat droppings falling on their shoulders.

A popular hangout for bats, tourists and now Covid sleuths

As the Boris Johnson-led government announced plans of vaccinating at least two million people in a week, the Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has assured that all adults will be vaccinated by the month of September.

'All adults to be vaccinated by September in UK': Dominic Raab

The situation is extremely concerning in the UK, especially with a surge in coronavirus cases after identification of a new variant. While the Boris Johnson-led government has been asking locals to stay indoors and has tried to keep the country under strict lockdown, the Chief Executive of the National Health Service (NHS) has revealed the situation might be much worse.

'One coronavirus patient getting admitted in hospitals every 30 seconds': NHS

All at once, the coronavirus seemed to change. For months, Dr. Steven Kemp, an infectious disease expert, had been scanning a global library of coronavirus genomes.

How British scientists found the more infectious coronavirus variant

'Moment of pride': India begins coronavirus vaccine drive

Amid rising resistance to Chinese products, Beijing has declared intentions to donate half a million coronavirus vaccine shots to the Philippines, Manila officials said on Saturday.

China to donate vaccine to Philippines amid growing resistance

Norway has issued a tale of caution for the old and terminally ill people who are being administered the coronavirus vaccine after 23 people died in the countries shortly after receiving a jab of the vaccine.

Norway: 23 people die after taking coronavirus vaccine; caution raised

After a surge in cases in the country, Japan is thinking of imposing penalties and prison sentences for people who refuse to cooperate with the government and medical experts, especially after testing positive for coronavirus.

Japan to charge fines and prison sentences for non-cooperation of COVID rules

The World Health Organization (WHO) has urged countries to cooperate with each other rather than playing the blame game about the origin of the deadly coronavirus, warning that the 'patient zero' might never be found.

'We may never find patient zero': WHO urges countries to cooperate

The EU Chief Ursula von der Leyen, while talking at a summit assured the Commission supports "a fast, smooth rollout of vaccination in the EU" as it is the "only way to eradicate the virus.

EU Chief aims to strengthen Indo-EU ties; Ministers raise concern on vaccine delay

In a first, at least two gorillas at California's San Diego Zoo have tested positive for the deadly coronavirus, officials from the zoo reported on Monday. A third gorilla is also showing symptoms.

Two gorillas test positive for coronavirus after mild symptoms

A few days after the Capitol riots, a Democrat congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman from New Jersey has tested positive for coronavirus, and she believes it has happened only because of her Republican colleagues present in Capitol that day.

Two Democrat congresswomen test positive for coronavirus after exposure in Capitol riots

Public and private hospitals in South Africa is grappling with increasing number of Covid-19 patients. In the last seven days hospital admissions have doubled everywhere, Gauteng Premier David Makhura said today.

South Africa: Hospital struggle to provide beds as coronavirus cases surge

With the identification of cases of the new strains of coronavirus — from the UK and South Africa — Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel has warned locals for the upcoming weeks, claiming they might be the "hardest" weeks till now.

'Hardest phase of pandemic': Angela Merkel cautions after German virus deaths cross 40,000

Ireland was one of the countries which reported cases of the new variant of coronavirus — first identified in the UK. The neighbouring country of the UK had also reported three new cases of the other strain of the coronavirus from South Africa.

New strain of coronavirus under control: Ireland health experts

The wife of the French President Emmanuel Macron had tested positive for coronavirus days after Christmas celebrations, her office reported to the local media on Saturday.

Emmanuel Macron's wife, Brigitte Macron, had tested positive for coronavirus

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