Coronavirus

Washington: Barack Obama has hammered the choice to proceed with the current week’s political race in Wisconsin, which constrained a huge number of individuals out to the surveys in the midst of a statewide stay-at-home request planned for putting a break on the spread of...

New Delhi: The Centre is considering a request made by most states to extend the ongoing nationwide lockdown by two weeks beyond April 14, the government said Saturday after Prime Minister Narendra Modi interacted with chief ministers and told them the focus should be now...

New Delhi: “Out of my 30 International hundreds, I can hardly remember 10-12 but the whirlwind knock against New Zealand is still fresh in my mind even after 31 years,” Mohammed Azharuddin said about the day when “everything clicked for him”. It was in December,...

Bhubaneswar: Subroto Bagchi, Chief Spokesperson of the government on COVID 19 Saturday said that the state government is training a number of medical personnel from diverse sectors in fight against coronavirus. “416 faculties and staff of SCB and 72 of MKCG have been given critical care...

Mumbai: With continuous spike in COVID-19 cases, the Maharashtra government Saturday decided to extend the ongoing lockdown period till April 30, hours after Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray attended a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi via video conferencing from Mumbai. In a live webcast, Thackeray...

Kannur (Kerala): A team of doctors at a medical college hospital near here scripted history Saturday by successfully performing a c-section surgery on a pregnant woman, battling coronavirus infection, and delivered her new born. The woman, a native of Kasaragod, was found to be coronavirus...

Mumbai: The Mumbai police Saturday subjected several lockdown violators to murga (rooster) punishment, an act in which a person has to assume a submission position resembling a rooster by squatting and holding the ears from behind the knees. Several people who ventured out during the...

Paris: The worldwide number of fatalities from the novel coronavirus pandemic rose to 103,141 Saturday, according to a tally compiled by AFP at 1100 GMT from official sources. More than 1,700,760 declared cases have been registered in 193 countries and territories since the epidemic first...

New Delhi: A total of 586 hospitals in the country have been marked as dedicated COVID-19 hospitals with capacity of over one lakh isolation beds and 11,500 ICU beds reserved for coronavirus patients, the Union Health Ministry said Saturday. Addressing a press briefing, Health Ministry’s...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Health and Family Welfare Department Saturday appreciated the women who are leading the state’s fight against COVID-19. “Mission Director National Health Mission (NHM) is coordinating surveillance, samples collection and testing, Mission Director Odisha State Medical Corporation Limited (OSMCL) is procuring drugs, sanitizers, equipment...