WHO's controversial Covid death report could be out next weekIn a detailed statement in response to the NYT article titled 'India is stalling WHO's efforts to make global Covid death toll public' date...
28 Apr, 2022, 10.15 AM IST
40 lakh Indians died due to 'government negligence' during pandemic, says Rahul GandhiIndia on Saturday questioned the World Health Organisation's (WHO) methodology to estimate COVID-19 mortalities in the country, saying usin...
18 Apr, 2022, 01.00 PM IST
Delhi reports 51 COVID-19 cases, zero deaths on Tuesday; positivity rate 0.1%With the new cases, the Covid infection tally in the city climbed to 14,41,449. Of this, over 14.15 lakh patients have recovered. The death...
07 Dec, 2021, 10.53 PM IST
Maharashtra reports 8,753 new COVID-19 cases, 156 deaths; 8,385 recoverThe state reported 442 fewer cases and nearly 100 less fatalities as compared to Thursday, when it had recorded 9,195 infections and 252 de...
02 Jul, 2021, 09.51 PM IST
Akhilesh alleges UP govt hiding actual Covid death tollSamajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav accused the Uttar Pradesh government of hiding the actual number of deaths due to COVID-19. Yadav'...
22 Jun, 2021, 12.28 PM IST
Delhi records 124 COVID-19 cases, 7 deaths on SundayThe national capital's Covid positivity rate dipped to 0.17 per cent, according to the health department's data.
20 Jun, 2021, 05.24 PM IST
Bihar government's reluctance to put COVID death toll in public domain uncalled for: Patna HCIt said that transparency is the hallmark of good governance, more so in today's era when both the Centre and the state are committed to ma...
18 Jun, 2021, 10.29 PM IST
Real COVID-19 death toll could be 'two to three' times above official stats: WHOOfficial death tolls from the COVID-19 pandemic are likely to be a "significant undercount", the World Health Organization said on Friday, ...
21 May, 2021, 05.31 PM IST
Getting real on Covid statistics: Non-traditional data can and must be trackedThe Economist has built a statistical model that estimates the actual Covid toll, measured as excess deaths above the projection of the pas...
18 May, 2021, 11.11 PM IST
UP reports 162 COVID-19 deaths, 29,754 fresh casesA total of 6,75,702 people have so far recuperated from the disease in the state leaving 2,23,544 active cases, Additional Chief Secretary,...
20 Apr, 2021, 05.53 PM IST
Love, loss & recovery: Flowers find meaning beyond Valentine's Day this FebruaryThe $35 billion floral industry is perhaps more involved in family joy, grief and milestones than any other.
09 Feb, 2021, 10.14 AM IST
Kerala sees record spike with 4,696 casesKerala reported the biggest-ever single-day spurt in Covid-19 cases on Sunday with 4,696 additions, taking the total infection count in the...
21 Sep, 2020, 10.35 AM IST
Telangana crosses 68,000 mark in Covid cases, death toll reaches 563The state suffered 12 Covid deaths afresh to take the total death toll to 563 so far, translating into a case fatality rate of 0.81% as aga...
04 Aug, 2020, 10.15 AM IST
Scientists develop new mathematical model to accurately estimate Covid-19 death tollThe researchers noted that the model's estimates and predictions closely match reported death totals.
01 May, 2020, 04.17 PM IST
Britain nears grim milestone of 20,000 coronavirus hospital deathsBritain has the fifth highest official coronavirus death toll in the world, after the United States, Italy, Spain and France. Scientists ha...
25 Apr, 2020, 02.23 PM IST
India's death toll due to COVID-19 touches 718; number of cases climb to 23,077However, a PTI tally of the figures reported by various states as on Thursday showed 722 deaths in the country.There has been a lag in the ...
24 Apr, 2020, 10.29 AM IST
Karnataka reports third COVID-19 death; total positive cases in state mounts to 62In the third COVID-19 fatality in Karnataka, a 60-year-old man died at a hospital in Tumakuru on Friday hours after his test result came po...
27 Mar, 2020, 05.22 PM IST