Coronavirus

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Thursday registered its highest single-day spike of 1,699 new COVID-19 cases, taking the total tally in the state to 40,717. Ten more deaths across the state took the death toll to 235. Out of the 1,699 new cases, 1,073 were reported from quarantine...

New Delhi: India saw a single-day increase of 56,282 cases taking the country's COVID-19 tally to 19,64,536 Thursday, while the recoveries have surged to 13,28,336 and comprise 67.62 per cent of the total caseload, according to the Union Health Ministry data. The death toll due to...

Houston: Doctors at a hospital here have used a new drug called RLF-100, also known as aviptadil, that has led to rapid recovery from respiratory failure in critically ill COVID-19 patients. The drug has been approved by the FDA for emergency use at multiple clinical...

Houston: Social media giant Facebook, for the first time, has removed a post from US President Donald Trump in which he claimed that children were ‘almost immune’ to COVID-19, saying it violated its policy against spreading ‘misinformation’ about the novel coronavirus. The post in question...

Washington: The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 18.7 million, while the deaths have increased to over 706,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University. As of Thursday morning, the total number of cases stood at 18,727,530 and the fatalities rose to 706,041, the...

London: Scientists have developed a new framework to understand the dispersion of droplets of different sizes which are ejected as people breathe, findings that shed more light on the transmission pattern of diseases such as COVID-19. The study, published in the journal Physics of Fluids,...

Los Angeles: The immune system's memory helper T cells which recognise the common cold virus and help the body fight it off, also identifies some parts of the novel coronavirus, according to a study whose findings may explain why some people have milder COVID-19 cases...

Kolkata: West Bengal witnessed Wednesday a record 61 people succumbing to COVID-19, pushing the death toll in the state to 1,846, the health department said. The coronavirus caseload also went up to 83,800 after West Bengal reported the highest single-day spike of 2,816 new infections....

Jalna: An 86-year-old man with underlying health conditions has recovered from the COVID-19 disease and discharged from a hospital here in Maharashtra, an official said Wednesday. The 86-year-old man was admitted in Mission Hospital here 18 days ago. He was shifted to an isolation ward...

Mumbai: Captain of the Indian women’s limited overs cricket teams, Harmanpreet Kaur is excited about playing in the UAE for the first time. Harmanpreet Kaur and is looking forward to come out of the long break and headline the Women’s T20 Challenge. The Women’s T20...