Coronavirus

Kolkata: The West Bengal government will bear the entire cost of movement of migrant labourers from the state who are stranded in various parts of the country and are returning home by special trains, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced Saturday. No migrant labourer will be...

Khurda: As many as three persons tested positive for COVID-19 in Khurda district Saturday, state information and public relations department said. District collector Sitanshu Rout declared Nabinabag area in Khurda town a containment zone as a precautionary measure after one of the three fresh cases...

London: The UK government Saturday launched trials for specially-trained “Covid dogs” that may be able to detect coronavirus in humans, even before symptoms appear, as part of a new research. The trials will establish whether these dogs could be used as a potential new non-invasive,...

New Delhi: With 438 new cases reported in a day, Delhi's tally of coronavirus patients has jumped to 9,333 Saturday with 5,278 active cases. As per the Delhi Health reports, six new deaths were reported in the last 24 hours taking the total COVID-19 toll...

Bhubaneswar:  Grit and patience hold the key to triumph over the deadly COVID-19, say survivors of the disease in Odisha, one of whom is a 17-year-old girl. The survivors say endurance and positive spirit are necessary to recover from the disease. "I have successfully fought...

Washington: The US will donate ventilators to India to treat the COVID-19 patients and help it fight the "invisible enemy", President Donald Trump has announced, as he underlined the close partnership between the two countries and called Prime Minister Narendra Modi his 'good friend'. The...

Toronto: An international team of researchers has found that an antiviral drug -- interferon(IFN)-a2b -- can help speed up the recovery of COVID-19 patients. Published in the journal Frontiers in Immunology, the study revealed that treatment with interferon(IFN)-a2b may significantly accelerate virus clearance and reduce...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, former Congress President Rahul Gandhi and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Saturday condoled the death of 24 migrant workers in a road accident in Uttar Pradesh's Auraiya and prayed for the speedy recovery of...

Bahanaga/Simulia: Amid growing panic over COVID-19 infection, migrant labourers returning from other states allegedly skip safety and quarantine guidelines in various parts of Balasore. Such violations allegedly fuelled fears of community infection while migrant labourers escape the scanner of the administration, a report said. Here...

Purusottampur: Purusottampur tehsildar Arun Kumar Nayak has been the talk of the town for his humanitarian gesture of distributing toys and biscuits among children staying with their parents in quarantine centres in this block of Ganjam district. The government provides basic facilities to returnees at...