China’s factories to the world brace for tsunami of Covid casesOutbreaks have the potential to cripple production or tear through employee rosters, threatening the global supply of everything from cars ...
15 Dec, 2022, 09.40 AM IST
Chinese city of 16 million to shut down over new Covid outbreakChina is the last major economy wedded to a zero-Covid policy, stamping out virus flare-ups with snap shutdowns, mass testing and lengthy q...
01 Sep, 2022, 11.15 AM IST
Setback for Shanghai's COVID battle; Beijing focusses on mass testingShanghai residents breathed a sigh of relief at the weekend on news that no cases had been confirmed outside quarantine areas for two days,...
02 May, 2022, 11.58 AM IST
Chinese city Xi'an lifts some restrictions after lockdownThe city went into strict lockdown on December 22, following a coronavirus outbreak that officials attributed to the delta variant. Xi'an, ...
17 Jan, 2022, 12.02 PM IST
Third Chinese city placed under COVID-19 lockdownThe country has taken a zero tolerance approach to the virus since it first emerged in central China in 2019, stamping out emerging flare-u...
28 Oct, 2021, 01.49 PM IST
Kerala health system on heightened alert with advent of Nipah amid COVID pandemicthe central government has rushed a team from the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) to provide support to the state, where a 12 ye...
05 Sep, 2021, 04.08 PM IST
Maharashtra's Covid-19 tally may have been grossly miscalculatedThe institute studied its own database of 412 antigen negative reports that were retested with RT-PCR (reverse transcription polymerase cha...
21 Jun, 2021, 10.35 AM IST
Many Indian-American families separated due to US ban on travellers from IndiaIn some cases, the main earning member of the family has been left stranded in India, with no way to rejoin their spouses and kids in the U...
05 May, 2021, 11.50 AM IST
RT-PCR negative report mandatory for passengers arriving in Bengaluru from any state: MinisterKarnataka Health and Medical Education Minister K Sudhakar who held a meeting to review Covid-19 containment measures in the city said it h...
25 Mar, 2021, 07.15 PM IST
Maharashtra govt announces stricter Covid norms for hotels, cinema halls, officesNobody will be allowed inside these establishments without wearing a mask and a temperature check, the state govt said in a notification as...
16 Mar, 2021, 01.39 PM IST
Israel begins virus inoculation drive as infections surgeIsrael on Sunday began its coronavirus inoculation drive, aiming to vaccinate some 60,000 people a day in a bid to stamp out the illness th...
20 Dec, 2020, 12.26 PM IST
New Zealand on verge of eradicating virusOnly a single person in the nation of 5 million people is known to still have the virus, and that person is not hospitalized.
04 Jun, 2020, 03.32 PM IST
Passengers' boarding passes won't be stamped by CISF personnel at airports: Aviation security regulator BCASThe Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS), in an order accessed by PTI, said every airport operator will have to ensure that there are e...
14 May, 2020, 11.12 AM IST
Congested dwelling hastened COVID-19 spread in Sangli familyThe 25 coronavirus patients reported from one family at Sangli in Maharashtra were found to be living in a congested set up, which might ha...
30 Mar, 2020, 11.47 AM IST
Most quarantined in Karnataka flouted norms, put community at big riskThe health department is facing the huge challenge of contact-tracing, and are working on developing mobile app with travel paths. Health o...
24 Mar, 2020, 07.52 PM IST
Delhi shuts all restaurants, bans gatherings of 20 or more people in efforts to curb spread of coronavirusThe announcement comes shortly after the Centre sealed all borders - prohibiting all overseas flights from entry into the country, and advi...
19 Mar, 2020, 06.28 PM IST
The epidemic you don’t know aboutThe national health policy had aimed at eliminating filariasis by 2015. The deadline was extended to 2017 and now has been shifted to 2020.
17 Nov, 2017, 11.32 AM IST