Coronavirus

Bali (Indonesia): Pharmacists on this Indonesian holiday island are tackling a shortage of anti-coronavirus hand sanitiser by making their own unique, tropical version – from thousands of litres of fermented palm wine. The idea was the brainchild of Bali police chief Petrus Reinhard Golose, who...

New Delhi: Observing that doctors and medical staff are the ‘first line of defence of the country’ in the battle against COVID-19 pandemic, the Supreme Court directed Wednesday the Centre to ensure that appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) are made available to them for treating...

New Delhi: The outlook for the Indian economy looks bleak as the Goldman Sachs has revised its forecast for the country's real GDP growth rate for the financial year 2020-21 to 1.6 per cent. In a report, it said that with the spread of the...

Beijing: India and China should pool in their scientific and technological resources to develop a vaccine to contain the deadly novel coronavirus, the Indian Ambassador to China Vikram Misri has said. “We could cooperate on the development of vaccine for this virus... It will be...

New Delhi:  As top drugmakers, scientists and independent researchers join an unprecedented race to develop a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes deadly COVID-19 disease, the ordinary souls are left confused, grappling with claims making rounds on social media as if a COVID-19 drug or...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government Wednesday declared more areas as containment zones for surveillance and contact tracing of novel coronavirus infection, though no fresh positive case was detected in the state since Tuesday. The total COVID-19 case in the state remains 42. While five areas comprising 7,992...

Geneva: Global trade growth is expected to plummet by up to a third in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, the World Trade Organisation (WTO) said Wednesday. It warned that the numbers would be ‘ugly’. “World trade is expected to fall by between 13 to...

London: The United Kingdom’s (UK) Indian-origin Finance Minister, Rishi Sunak, is next in line to deputise for British Prime Minister Boris Johnson while he is in hospital with coronavirus and in case UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab is unable to carry on amid the pandemic,...

Berhampur: The district administration in Odisha's Ganjam Wednesday said it will launch a door-to-door survey to look for coronavirus-like symptoms in about 40 lakh people, as part of measures to contain the pandemic. The health verification of all the families will start from Thursday, said...

Mumbai: With six more persons testing positive for coronavirus Wednesday, the count of infected persons in Dharavi, the densely-populated slum area of this city, rose to 13, civic officials said. A 64-year-old coronavirus male patient from Dharavi died during treatment Wednesday, taking the number of...