Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will not attend the virtual meeting called by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to discuss the COVID-19 situation with CMs, sources in the state government said Thursday. Chief Secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay will be present in the meeting, they said....
New Delhi: Ten states including Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Kerala and Punjab have shown a steep rise in the daily COVID-19 cases accounting for 84.21 per cent of the 1,26,789 new infections, the health ministry said Thursday. The national weekly COVID-19 positivity...
Dehradun: Nearly 88 students of the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee in Uttarakhand's Haridwar district have tested positive for coronavirus, an institute official said Thursday. Sonika Shirivastva, a spokesperson of the institute, said all the 88 students have been kept in the Ganga...
Rome: More than five million students across Italy returned to schools for in-person classes, after months of distant learning due to the coronavirus pandemic. Announced by the central government on March 26, the reopening on Wednesday concerned all nursery and primary students up to the...
New Delhi: India registered a record single-day spike of 1,26,789 new COVID-19 cases, pushing its infection tally to 1,29,28,574, while the number of active cases too went upwards to breach the nine lakh-mark again, Union Health Ministry data updated Thursday showed. The death toll due...
Bhubaneswar: Odisha Thursday registered 879 new coronavirus cases, taking the total tally in the state to 3,45,526. Out of the 879 new cases, 518 were reported from quarantine centres while 361 contracted the virus locally. Khurda district reported the highest number of new cases with...
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Thursday took second dose of COVID-19 vaccine at AIIMS here, and asked those eligible for the shot to take it soon to defeat the virus. He had taken his first jab on March 1 at the hospital. "Got my...
Bhubaneswar: Odisha Health Minister Naba Kishore Das Wednesday said that vaccine shortage is affecting the state government’s plans for rapid inoculation. Das went on to add that the inadequate supply of vaccines is becoming a big threat. “Each day we need close to 2.31 lakh...
New Delhi: The government will allow COVID-19 vaccination at public and private workplaces having about 100 eligible beneficiaries from April 11 across states and Union territories. Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan in a letter to the chief secretaries said a substantial proportion of population aged 45...
New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Wednesday batted for COVID-19 vaccine for all, saying every Indian ‘deserves the chance to a safe life’. The health ministry Tuesday said the vaccine needs to be given to those who need it and not those who want it....
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