Coronavirus

New Delhi: From ‘I have flu like symptoms. Do I have coronavirus?’ to ‘Can we contract COVID-19 from ‘Made in China' products?’, doctors are flooded with anxious queries that cover the serious-to-downright-silly spectrum. With physical checks out of the reckoning, except in emergencies and that...

Bhubaneswar: The Health and Family Welfare Department announced Monday evening that five more COVID-19 patients have recovered and tested negative. All the patients belong to the state capital. With the recovery of the five, the total number patients who have been cured went up to...

 Kolkata: The West Bengal government has showcaused a medical officer of a rural hospital in Jhargram district for switching off lights and lighting candles and diyas April 5 inside and outside the health facility following a call given by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. According to the...

Geneva: The novel coronavirus is 10 times more deadly than swine flu, also called H1N1, which caused a global pandemic in 2009, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said Monday. It called for the control measures to be lifted ‘slowly’. “We know that COVID-19 spreads fast, and...

New Delhi: Relaxing its earlier conditions in view of the coronavirus pandemic, the Supreme Court directed Monday the release of those detainees who were declared foreigners and have been lodged in the detention centres of Assam for two years or more. A bench of Chief...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court declined Monday to pass any interim order on the plea of a Muslim body seeking to restrain a section of media from allegedly spreading bigotry and communal hatred by linking the spread of coronavirus with the recent Nizamuddin Markaz incident....

New Delhi: The Bar Council of Delhi (BCD) Monday urged the Delhi High Court to set up an app or any other mechanism for hearing more matters as some of the advocates are not able to avail video conferencing facility during the lockdown period. The...

Mumbai: With 150 new cases of COVID-19 found in Mumbai, their count crossed the 1,500-mark Monday, while the death toll touched 100 in the financial capital, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation said. According to a BMC release, 150 more people have tested positive for coronavirus in...

Bhubaneswar: The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) Monday withdrew ‘containment zone’ restrictions from Sundarpada and Jadupur/Begunia areas in the city. Five places in the capital city -- Surya Nagar, Bomikhal, Satya Nagar, Sundarpada and area covering the revenue villages of Jadupur and Begunia were declared as...

Paris: The worldwide death toll from the novel coronavirus pandemic rose to 1,14,539 Monday, according to a tally compiled by this agency from official sources. More than 18,53,300 declared cases have been registered in 193 countries and territories since the epidemic first emerged in China...