COVID-19: Prohibit use, spitting of smokeless tobacco in public places, health ministry tells statesIn view of the increasing danger of the coronavirus pandemic, the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) has also appealed to people to...
11 Apr, 2020, 10.48 AM IST
Armed with ordinance, Odisha now may send epidemic rule violators to jail for 2 yrsAs per the Epidemic Diseases (Amendment) Ordinance, 2020, anybody who disobeys any regulation or order made under the principal Act is liab...
09 Apr, 2020, 04.44 PM IST
Uttarakhand govt declares coronavirus an epidemic; shuts schools, colleges and cinema hallsUnder the Epidemic Diseases Act 1897, the Centre has authorised state governments to take preventive measures to control the spread of coro...
15 Mar, 2020, 02.03 PM IST
Delhi authorities get power to seal areas over Covid-19The regulations give officials the power to take “coercive action” against any person if he refuses to “cooperate” with the authorities. “A...
15 Mar, 2020, 10.53 AM IST
Children are less severely affected by coronavirus compared to adults: StudyThe review, published in the Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, noted that the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, seems to cause fewer sympt...
14 Mar, 2020, 04.52 PM IST
Why WHO has not declared Coronavirus as a pandemicThere exists a clear difference between an epidemic and a pandemic. Pandemic is the spread of a disease across a large region while epidemi...
28 Feb, 2020, 05.41 PM IST
Coronavirus: China death toll climbs to over 2,700 amidst signs of slowdownThe country's National Health Commission (NHC) in its daily update said it received reports of 52 deaths, all from Hubei, and 406 new confi...
26 Feb, 2020, 11.28 AM IST
Death toll in China's coronavirus jumps to 2,236; confirmed cases cross 75,400The number of deaths is higher than the previous day when 114 people died of the disease, but the country reported the lowest number of new...
21 Feb, 2020, 08.59 PM IST
Death toll in China's coronavirus climbs to 2,118The death toll from the coronavirus epidemic in China has climbed to 2,118 with the death of 114 more people, while the overall confirmed c...
20 Feb, 2020, 12.23 PM IST
More than half of coronavirus cases in Hubei treated with traditional Chinese medicine: OfficialThe Chinese government has also approved field trials for experimental US antiviral drug, Remdesivir to treat coronavirus patients. The dea...
15 Feb, 2020, 03.49 PM IST
China welcomes support from BRICS to its efforts to combat coronavirusRussia, the current chairman of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) on Wednesday issued a statement extending support of...
12 Feb, 2020, 05.22 PM IST
China's coronavirus death toll climbs to 813 but new cases fallWith 91 more people dying, most in Hubei province, the novel coronavirus death toll is now higher than the 774 people killed worldwide by S...
09 Feb, 2020, 08.10 PM IST
Five suspected cases of coronavirus reported in PakistanThe suspected patients were on the Air China flight carrying 177 passengers, which landed in Islamabad on Friday, The Express Tribune repor...
09 Feb, 2020, 04.58 PM IST
Assess coronavirus epidemic in 'calm' manner: Chinese President Xi Jinping tells Donald TrumpXi, in his first phone call with Trump since the coronavirus outbreak in December, told the US President that China had launched a "people'...
07 Feb, 2020, 11.07 PM IST
Coronavirus: Mass cancellation of hotel bookings in Kerala, says MinisterA day after the Kerala government declared the novel coronavirus as a 'state calamity', Tourism Minister Kadakampally Surendran on Tuesday ...
04 Feb, 2020, 12.28 PM IST
Coronavirus global threat, Army doing its job to contain spread: General NaravaneThe death toll in the novel coronavirus (nCoV) outbreak in China has risen to 259 with the total confirmed cases surging to 11,791 amid ste...
01 Feb, 2020, 12.45 PM IST
Coronavirus: China assures India of cooperation in epidemic prevention and controlChina on Thursday said it is closely watching the report about one confirmed case of the Coronavirus in India, and assured cooperation to t...
30 Jan, 2020, 06.29 PM IST