Coronavirus

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court Saturday while hearing a petition on the oxygen shortage said, "its tsunami and we are calling it wave" and asked both the Centre and the state government to get prepared to overcome the crisis. Citing the study of Indian...

Bengaluru: A 61-year-old Covid patient has committed suicide at a hospital here, the police said Saturday. According to the police, the deceased is identified as Ramanna, a resident of Anjana Nagar, Sunkadakatte of Bengaluru. The police said that the deceased died by hanging in the...

Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday expressed solidarity with the people of India battling the deadly wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, saying ‘we must fight this global challenge confronting humanity together’. A record single-day rise of 3,46,786 coronavirus cases pushed India's tally of...

Islamabad: Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi Saturday expressed support to the people of India in the wake of a massive surge in COVID-19 cases in the country and extended his sympathies to the affected families. Qureshi said the COVID-19 crisis is yet another reminder...

Mumbai: Former India captain Sachin Tendulkar Saturday said he has recovered from COVID-19 and will donate plasma when he is eligible. Tendulkar, celebrating his 48th birthday on Saturday, tested positive for the virus on March 27 and had to be briefly hospitalised here as a...

Colombo: A new coronavirus strain that is airborne and more potent than all those found previously in Sri Lanka has been discovered in the island nation, according to a top immunologist here. The variant, which is highly transmissible, can remain airborne for nearly an hour...

New Delhi: A day after Chief Ministers raised about price uniformity of the vaccine to be administered from May 1, the health ministry has issued clarification on the issue. "It is clarified that the Govt of India's procurement price for both #COVID19 vaccines remains at...

Amritsar: Six patients died at a private hospital here Saturday due to the shortage of oxygen, hospital authorities said. Five of the six patients were infected with COVID-19, they said. "Despite the district administration being repeatedly asked to extend help, no one turned up to...

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court said Saturday that if any official at the central, state or local administration was obstructing in the picking up or supply of oxygen, then it would ‘hang’ that person. The observation by a bench of Justices Vipin Sanghi and...

New Delhi: A number of hospitals in the national capital grappled with oxygen scarcity on Saturday amid a surge in coronavirus cases that has stretched the city's healthcare infrastructure to the limits. Twenty critically ill patients died overnight at Jaipur Golden Hospital in Delhi amid...