New Delhi: India Sunday reported 8,774 fresh Covid cases and 621 deaths in the last 24 hours, said the Ministry of Health and Family welfare Sunday morning. The recovery of 9,481 patients in the last 24 hours has increased the cumulative tally to 3,39,98,278. Consequently,...
Bengaluru: Two South African nationals have tested Covid-19 positive at the Kempegowda International Airport here, creating panic among the health authorities over the new Omicron variant of the lethal virus. Bengaluru Rural Deputy Commissioner K. Srinivas on Saturday said further test reports would ascertain whether...
Mysuru: Close on the heels of the Covid outbreak in the campus of SDM Medical College in Dharwad and International Boarding School in Bengaluru, 48 nursing students have tested positive for the contagion in Karnataka's Mysuru district. The district administration has confirmed the numbers stating...
Hyderabad: Mahindra University Saturday shut its campus after 25 students and five staff members tested positive for Covid-19. Tech Mahindra Ltd-promoted university located at Bahadurpally on the outskirts of Hyderabad has sent the students home and announced that online classes will be conducted from Monday....
Dharawad, (Karnataka): More students tested positive taking the Covid-19 tally at the SDM Medical College here to 281 Saturday, state Health Minister K. Sudhakar said. The number of cases is likely to increase as some test reports are still awaited. "All the samples have been...
Toronto: The amount of a SARS-CoV-2 genetic material -- viral RNA -- in the blood is a reliable indicator in detecting which patients will die of the infectious disease, researchers have found. Despite advances in the management of Covid-19, doctors have found it hard to...
New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Saturday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to stop flights from South Africa, Botswana and Hong Kong where new Covid-19 variants have been detected. "I urge Hon'ble PM to stop flights from those countries which are affected by new...
Washington: The global coronavirus caseload has topped 260.5 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 5.18 million and vaccination to over 7.55 billion, according to Johns Hopkins University. In its latest update Saturday morning, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE)...
Chennai: Actor-turned-politician and Makkal Needhi Maiam President Kamal Haasan is recovering well after being infected by Covid-19 and admitted to a hospital, as per the hospital bulletin Friday. The superstar of South Indian cinema is recovering at an isolated unit of the Sri Ramachandra Medical...
Brussels: A slew of European countries have restricted travel from southern Africa amid concerns over the new Covid-19 variant. The B.1.1.529 variant, first detected in South Africa, is reportedly more transmissible and has been classified as a "Variant of Concern" by the World Health Organization,...
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