Coronavirus

New Delhi: New coronavirus droplets could travel up to 27 feet as a sneeze or a cough results in a turbulent gas cloud that could contain SARS-CoV-2 droplets, an MIT researcher has claimed in a paper published in the Journal of the American Medical Association...

Bhubaneswar: National Testing Agency (NTA) has Tuesday postponed JEE Main 2020 April exam dates due to the outbreak of novel coronavirus. Exam which is scheduled for April 5, 7 and 11, will most likely be conducted in the last week of May. The exact date...

Deoria (Uttar Pradesh): While most are wishing that Corona and lockdown do not make a return, there are some who are keeping it in their home forever. A baby boy born on Monday in Khukhundu village in Deoria district, has been named 'Lockdown' by his...

Geneva: The United Nations Office in Geneva confirmed nine cases of coronavirus among its staff as of March 30, said Alessandra Vellucci, director of the UN Information Service in Geneva. In a letter to UN-accredited journalists in Geneva, Vellucci Tuesday said that in order to...

Bhubaneswar: Taking mind off of the growing concern over COVID-19, Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) will start distributing PDS items from today at 108 PDS centres including designated schools, colleges over period of 15 days. To avoid any scare of a shortage of essential items and...

Mumbai: A 75-year-old man died due to Covid-19 in Mumbai, taking the number of such casualties to 12 in Maharashtra, where 19 new corona positive cases reported since Tuesday night took the total cases to 321, health officials said here Wednesday. While a 50-year-old man had...

Lakhimpur (Uttar Pradesh): Over 40 people in Lakhimpur district have filed complaints against China's President Xi Jinping over coronavirus situation in Uttar Pradesh. The complaints include lawyers and social activists, who have blamed the Chinese top leader for allowing the coronavirus to spread, endangering the lives...

Bhubaneswar: The COVID-19 pandemic around the world has taken the world by storm touching the lives of every human being on Earth! Bringing out the best and worst of human emotions – empathy, sympathy, kindness, concern, anger, frustration, social cohesiveness and bravery among others. Since...

Rome: Italy observed a minute of silence for the victims of the coronavirus pandemic as their numbers rose above 12,000. Speaking during a nightly televised press conference Tuesday, Civil Protection Department Chief Angelo Borrelli confirmed that there were 2,107 new active coronavirus infections compared to...

Brussels: Spain's health authorities confirmed that the country's total number of coronavirus cases increased by 9,222 to 94,417, a higher daily rise in new cases than Sunday and Monday, when 6,549 and 6,398 new cases were confirmed respectively. Spain also saw 849 new deaths in...