Coronavirus

New Delhi: Global health experts Wednesday said novel coronavirus is here to stay for more than a year. They called for aggressive testing to prevent its spread. The health experts Ashish Jha and Professor Johan Giesecke said this during an interaction with Congress leader Rahul...

Toronto: Cloth masks, particularly those with several layers of cotton cloth, can reduce transmission of Covid-19 by blocking up to 99 percent of infectious particles, say researchers. For the findings, published in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine, the research team examined a century of...

New Delhi: The postponement of this year’s T20 World Cup in Australia is very much on the cards. There is every probability that such a decision may be taken during the ICC’s board teleconference Thursday. If such a decision is taken it just might open...

New Delhi: Nokia has suspended operations at a telecoms gear manufacturing plant in Tamil Nadu, the company said Wednesday. This decision was taken after a large number of employees working at the Nokia plant tested positive for COVID-19. Nokia did not disclose how many workers...

Boinda:  Eighteen migrant workers were detained Tuesday night by Angul police. They were trying to flee from a Shramik Special train while returning from Gujarat. They have been sent to quarantine centres at Boinda and Luhamunda in Angul district, police said. The migrants were trying...

Lucknow: A private testing laboratory that gave a false report of six people testing corona positive in Meerut district, is likely to lose its licence. Meerut District Magistrate Anil Dhingra has already recommended cancellation of the licence of the lab, which has its main office...

New Delhi: The death toll due to the COVID- 19 pandemic rose to 4,337 in India while the total number of positive cases climbed to 1,51,767. In the last 24 hours there have been 170 new deaths and 6,387 fresh cases of COVID-19 infection. This...

Bhubaneswar: Seventy six new coronavirus positive cases were reported Wednesday from various parts of Odisha. It took the total tally of coronavirus infected persons to 1,593 in the state. All the new coronavirus positive patients are currently being treated at various COVID-19 facilities spread across...

Washington: For the first time, Twitter has flagged some of President Donald Trump’s tweets with a fact-check warning. Twitter added Tuesday a warning phrase to two Donald Trump tweets that called mail-in ballots ‘fraudulent’. The tweets also predicted that ‘mail boxes will be robbed’” among...

London: Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has said Paul Pogba and Marcus Rashford have recovered from their injuries. They both will be available for the restart of the Premier League season. Both Paul Pogba and Marcus Rashford were injuried when the league got suspended...