Coronavirus

Mumbai: Actor Sonu Sood has arranged for a 25-year-old critically ill Covid patient to be airlifted in an air ambulance from Nagpur to Hyderabad for treatment. The patient Bharti is the daughter of a retired railway officer, and she has reportedly lost almost 85 to...

New Delhi: Amid several states flagging scarcity of medical oxygen in the COVID-19 fight, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Friday that the Railways and Air Force are being deployed to reduce the transportation time for oxygen tankers. Narendra Modi asserted that all state governments need...

Bishkek: Four types of Covid-19 strains are circulating in Kyrgyzstan, the country's Ministry of Health said. Kyrgyzstan sent samples to the World Health Organization reference laboratory in Russia March 26, the report said. The lab found four types of Covid-19 strains circulating among patients in...

New Delhi: Emergence of particularly infectious variants, a rise in unrestricted social interactions, and low vaccine coverage could be an unfortunate confluence of factors behind the unprecedented surge of coronavirus cases seen in India, according to a report. "Untangling the causes could be helpful to...

New Delhi: Senior advocate Harish Salve sought the Supreme Court’s permission Friday to withdraw as amicus curiae from the suo motu case to distribution of essential supplies and services, including oxygen and drugs, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Harish Salve before a bench headed by Chief...

Mumbai: After the death comes compensation. It is as if life has a price according to some family members of those who were killed in a hospital fire in Virar in Palghar district of Maharashtra. Prime Minister Narendra Modi condoled Friday the loss of lives...

New Delhi: With another record single-day rise of  3,32,730 new coronavirus infections, India’s total tally of COVID-19 cases climbed to 1,62,63,695. The total active cases crossed the 24-lakh mark, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated Friday. The death toll increased to 1,86,920 with a record 2,263 new fatalities, the Health...

Chandigarh: Over 1,700 doses of COVID-19 vaccine that were stolen from a government hospital in Haryana’s Jind district on Wednesday night were returned. The person who stole the Covid-19 vaccines returned the vials and left a note. The note said that the person did not...

New Delhi: Twenty-five ‘sickest’ COVID-19 patients have died at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital here in the last 24 hours. The lives of another 60 such COVID-19 patients are at risk, officials said Friday.     Sources said ‘low pressure oxygen’ could be the likely cause for the...

Virar (Maharashtra): Thirteen COVID-19 patients died Friday in a blaze at the intensive care unit of a private hospital in Palghar district. Police said the toll may rise as rescue operations are still on. This incident, coming in the backdrop of the Nashik oxygen tragedy...