Coronavirus

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Saturday reported 19 new COVID-19 cases, taking the total number of infected persons to 289, Information and Public Relations (I&PR) Department of the state government said. While there were 13 new cases from Ganjam district, three were detected in Mayurbhanj and one each...

Mumbai: Two months after Covid-19 sneaked into Maharashtra March 9 through a Pune-based couple arriving from Dubai, the Coronavirus has spread like a wildfire to infect a whopping 19,063 persons in only 60 days. Just nine days later, (March 17), Covid-19 claimed its first victim...

New Delhi: The TMC Saturday accused Union Home Minister Amit Shah of “lying” about the West Bengal government not allowing trains to reach the state, and said they have already planned eight trains to ferry migrants from Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Punjab and Telangana. The first...

Baripada: Mayurbhanj district reported three positive cases Saturday, taking the district’s tally to seven. In a tweet, Mayurbhanj collector Vineet Bhardwaj informed that all the infected persons are from Kaptipada block and all are males. These new cases are Surat returnees. After their return from...

Hong Kong: A two-week course of antiviral therapy that combines the power of three drugs has shown promise in treating hospitalised patients with mild to moderate COVID-19 in a carefully undertaken phase 2 clinical trial. The results of the trial, published in the journal The...

New York: Loss of taste or smell is now among the new coronavirus symptoms that the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has added to its official list and now, a new study says that loss of the sense of smell is most...

Seoul: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un sent a message to Russian President Vladimir Putin Saturday on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II, Pyongyang's state news agency reported. Kim expressed the belief that friendly relations between the two countries...

Hong Kong: Hong Kong recorded no new COVID-19 case Saturday, a day after the city eased restrictions amid the pandemic. A handful of imported cases over the past week took the city's tally to 1,044 with four related deaths, reports the South China Morning Post...

New Delhi: While the Union government plans to help more than two lakh migrants to return home, it is the West Bengal government that is not supporting their cause and is not allowing trains carrying migrants to reach the state, Union Home Minister Amit Shah...

New Delhi: It took the Delhi Police death of one of its constable from the deadly Coronavirus to wake up and put in place a Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for daily monitoring of personnel and reporting unwell persons to a doctor without any delay. The...