Coronavirus

New Delhi: India’s COVID-19 recoveries have crossed 40 lakh and exceed the active cases of infection by 30,15,103. So the recovery rate has gone up to 78.64 per cent, the Union Health Ministry said Thursday. The Health Ministry also said that the total number of active...

New York: Michelin-star chef Vikas Khanna will be honoured with the prestigious 2020 ‘Asia Game Changer Award’. Vikas Khanna will get the award for feeding millions across India amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The star chef did this through a massive food distribution drive. He coordinated...

United Nations: An additional 150 million children globally have been plunged into poverty since the COVID-19 pandemic hit earlier this year, taking the number of children living in multi-dimensional poverty across the world to approximately 1.2 billion, according to a new UNICEF analysis. The new...

Dhenkanal: Dhenkanal district administration dismissed a pharmacist for dereliction of duty after a video of a woman trying to resuscitate her COVID-19 infected husband at Dhenkanal district headquarters hospital (DHH) went viral. In the video, a COVID-19 patient is seen collapsing at the main door...

New Delhi:  Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan Thursday said that the coronavirus vaccine will be made available in the country by the start of next year. The remarks come at a time when India is recording more than 50 lakh cases and people are awaiting the...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Thursday reported 4,241 new COVID-19 cases, taking the total tally in the state to 1,67,161. Out of the 4,241 new cases, 2,502 were reported from quarantine centres while 1,739 are local contacts. District Wise Breakdown: According to the Information & Public Relations Department,...

New Delhi: A record single-day increase of 97,894 infections pushed India's COVID-19 tally to over 51 lakh, while the number of people who  have recuperated from the disease crossed 40 lakh Thursday, according to the Union Health Ministry data. The total coronavirus cases mounted to 51,18,253, while the death toll climbed to 83,198 with...

Washington: The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 29.7 million, while the deaths have increased to over 939,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University. As of Thursday morning, the total number of cases stood at 29,760,579 and the fatalities rose to 939,427, the...

Guwahati: A 100-year-old woman has been discharged from a hospital here after recovering from COVID-19 Wednesday, officials said. Health officials said that Mai Handique, a boarder of a Guwahati-based old-age home, had undergone treatment for coronavirus for the past few weeks at the Mahendra Mohan...

New York: A 57 page ‘playbook’ just in from the US government outlines a comprehensive plan to make the COVID-19 vaccine available free to all Americans once it is proven safe and effective. The shot wouldn't be broadly available to most of the US population...