Coronavirus

Mumbai: Veteran actor Anupam Kher has shared that his mother Dulari, brother Raju Kher and two other family members have tested positive for COVID-19. The actor took to social media to share the health update. He also revealed that he had tested negative for the...

Mumbai: Designer Riddhima Kapoor Sahni has slammed rumours that her mother Neetu Kapoor and brother, actor Ranbir Kapoor, have tested positive for COVID-19 and asked people to not spread misinformation. Soon after megastar Amitabh Bachchan and his son Abhishek Bachchan tested positive for COVID-19 and...

Malkangiri: As COVID infections are surging in Malkangiri, the district administration has made 14-day institutional or paid quarantine mandatory for people coming to the district from 13 hotspot districts of the state. The administration had denied entry of people from Ganjam, Cuttack, Khurda, Bhadrak, Jajpur,...

New Delhi: India reported a record 28,637 COVID-19 cases Sunday, pushing the country's tally to 8,49,553 as the death toll climbed to 22,674 with 551 people succumbing to the disease in a day. The number of recoveries stands at 5,34,620, while there are 2,92,258 active cases of the...

Bhubaneswar: As many as 595 persons tested positive for COVID-19 in last 24 hours bringing the total number of infections so far in Odisha to 13,121, official data suggested Sunday. According to Department of Information and Public Relations (I&PR) of the state government, out of...

Mumbai: Soon after Amitabh Bachchan tweeted to confirm that he has been hospitalised with COVID-19 infection, the Bollywood icons son, actor Abhishek Bachchan, also took to social media Saturday night to state that he has tested positive to the novel coronavirus. "Earlier today both my...

New York:  A long-expected upturn in US coronavirus deaths has begun, driven by fatalities in states in the South and West, according to data on the pandemic. The number of deaths per day from the virus had been falling for months, and even remained down...

New York: Covid-19 can be transmitted in the womb, say researchers as a case study provides evidence of its intrauterine (in the womb) transmission from mother to infant. A US baby girl born prematurely to a Covid-19 infected mother is the strongest evidence to date...

Choudwar: COVID-19 test reports of several persons under Choudwar municipal limits Saturday brought cheers to local denizens as the suspected cases tested negative. According to a source, 18 swab samples of residents who were put either at quarantine facilities here or at their respective homes...

Mumbai: In a major boost to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation and Maharashtra government’s morale, the World Health Organization (WHO) has lauded their success over the Covid-19 outbreak in Dharavi – Asia’s largest slum. WHO Director-General, Tedros A. Ghebreyesus, at a press conference late Friday, referred...