Coronavirus

Chandigarh: A woman student of the Lovely Professional University in Punjab has tested coronavirus positive, an official said Sunday. The state has 2,400 resident students stranded in the university hostels. "One girl student, hailing from Maharashtra, but residing in the hostel tested positive last evening....

Jabalpur: The whole country is under lockdown amid deadly coronavirus outbreak but there are people who are still keeping up their jobs at priority. Constable Anand Pandey walked for 450 km from Kanpur to Jabalpur to join his duty. Resident of Bhauti in Kanpur, Pandey...

New Delhi: Total number of confirmed cases of novel coronavirus in India climbed to 8,356, with 909 fresh cases and 34 new deaths in the last 24 hours, according to the data published by the health ministry Sunday. Of the total cases in the country,...

New Delhi: As many 62.5 per cent people across various groups -- social, income, age, education, religion and gender -- said they have ration/ medicine etc. or money for the same for less than three weeks, according to the IANS C-Voter COVID Tracker's Index of...

Bhubaneswar: To fight against deadly coronavirus, Odisha government has included more departments under the critical and partially critical categories, a senior government official said. According to a notification by General Administration Department, the offices under critical category are Agriculture & Farmers’ Empowerment, Co-operation, Fisheries and Animal...

New Delhi: The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) said Saturday that a total of 1,79,374 samples from 1,64,773 individuals have been tested in India as of April 11 9 pm, and 7,703 of them have tested positive. According to a statement released by ICMR,...

New York: The total number of deaths due to COVID-19 in the United States topped 20,000, according to data compiled by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University. A total of 20,071 people have died of the disease among 519,453...

New Delhi/ Kolkata: The Centre and the West Bengal government Saturday pressed a confrontationist button over the Union Home Ministry writing to the state Chief Secretary and the Director General of Police seeking action against the 'dilution' of lockdown measures in the state, and over...

Mumbai: Actress Kareena Kapoor Khan has urged citizens to stay at home, after Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray announced that the ongoing COVID-19 lockdown would be extended in the state. Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday held a meeting with state chief ministers via video conferencing....

Geneva: The COVID-19 pandemic has hit over 22,000 healthcare workers across 52 countries and regions, the World Health Organization (WHO) said. According to its daily situation report Saturday, 22,073 COVID-19 cases among healthcare workers have been reported to the WHO as of Wednesday, April 8,...