Coronavirus

 New Delhi: Ten days after recording two lakh COVID-19 cases, India surpassed the three lakh-mark Saturday with the worst daily spike of 11,458 infections, while the death toll too climbed to 8,884 with 386 new fatalities, the Union Health Ministry said. India took 64 days...

New Delhi: An association of medics has extended support to the resident doctors of two municipal hospitals in Delhi and threatened mass resignation if their ‘reasonable demands’ for payment of salaries pending for three months are not met within a week. The Municipal Corporation Doctors'...

Washington: The global number of COVID-19 cases has increased to over 7.6 million, while the death toll surged past 425,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University. As of Saturday morning, the overall number of cases stood at 7,632,377, while the deaths increased to 425,385, the...

Kalahandi: Two doctors, both female, at Narla Community Health Centre in Kalahandi district tested positive for COVID-19, official sources said Saturday. Both the doctors reportedly contracted the disease after coming in direct contact with a returnee from Telangana. According to Kalahandi Collecttor Parag Harshad Gavali,...

Rome: Italy registered a total of 236,305 coronavirus cases, as the number of active infections dropped below 30,000 for the first time since March 18, according to the latest official data. More specifically, there were 28,997 positive cases across the country, with a decrease of...

Cuttack: The spread of COVID-19 reached alarming levels in Cuttack as the district reported 92 fresh cases Friday. Almost all of the cases were reported from Temporary Medical Camps (TMC) with Nischintakoili reporting 43 cases, Kanpur with 26, Niali 11, Mahanga 5 (4 in TMC...

New Delhi: The Central government Friday said the recovery rate of Covid-19 positive cases has increased to 49.47 per cent and a total of 1,47,194 individuals have recovered from the deadly disease. India has become the fourth worst-affected country due to the pandemic as it...

Beijing: China has reported 10 new coronavirus cases, including two more confirmed infections in Beijing, following which the capital city suspended plans to reopen schools for grade first to third students. Beijing reported its first COVID-19 case Thursday after an interval of 56 days. On...

Mumbai: Actress Adah Sharma has been feeding stray animals near her house here. She says "coronavirus or no coronavirus, the animals are still hungry". "I have my earliest memories of feeding animals. My mother being an animal lover I think I get it from her....

Washington: The world is in a race against time to produce a vaccine that would enable it to tackle the dreaded coronavirus. But then it is not the only vaccine that researchers are looking at. Some scientists are trying to produce vaccines that will fight...