Coronavirus

Kozhikode: A 37-year-old woman, injured in the Air India Express plane crash at the nearby Karipur airport August 7 has died at a hospital here. It took the death toll in the Air India accident to 21, government sources said Monday. The woman identified as...

Chhatrapur: The number of coronavirus cases in Ganjam district is slowly decreasing. This has prompted the district administration to bring in some relaxations Monday to the restrictions imposed due to the COVID-19 disease. Ganjam District Collector Vijay Amruta Kulange informed about the relaxations in a...

New Delhi: A survey has found that 62 per cent of parents will not be sending their children to school even if they are reopened on government's orders September 1. According to the LocalCircles survey, only 6 per cent citizens are willing to visit multiplexes...

London: Researchers have found the Covid-19 pandemic is having a profound, negative impact on nine out of 10 people with experience of eating disorders. According to Beat, the UK's eating disorder charity, approximately 1.25 million people in the UK alone have an eating disorder. Until...

London: In a fight against the novel coronavirus, researchers have found that medication for high blood pressure could improve COVID-19 survival rates and reduce the severity of the infection. For the study, published in the journal Current Atherosclerosis Reports, the research team studied 28,000 patients...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Monday reported 2,949 new COVID-19 cases, taking the total tally in the state to 81,479. Out of the 2,949 new cases, 1,826 were reported from quarantine centres while 1,123 are local contacts. District wise breakdown: Angul 1, Balasore 88, Bargarh 62, Bhadrak 66,...

New Delhi: With a single-day spike of 61,408 infections, India's COVID-19 tally breached the 31-lakh mark, a day after it crossed 30 lakh, while recoveries surged to 23,38,035 pushing the recovery rate to over 75 per cent, according to the Union Health Ministry data. India's...

Madrid: Barcelona FC have confirmed that newly-signed midfielder Miralem Pjanic has tested positive for coronavirus. The club has further informed that Pjanic is in 'good health' and is self-isolating at home. "Miralem Pjanic has tested positive in a PCR taken on Saturday 22 August after...

Washington: Despite experts raising doubts over the plasma therapy to treat COVID-19, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an emergency use authorisation (EUA) for convalescent plasma to treat the deadly respiratory disease. In a statement Sunday, the FDA said that "known and...

Washington: The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 23.3 million, while the deaths have increased to over 807,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University. As of Monday morning, the total number of cases stood at 23,348,081 and the fatalities rose to 807,383, the...