Lockdown, Day 81: Another grim milestoneSome experts, meanwhile, have come down hard on the ICMR for its assertion that there was no community transmission of COVID-19, saying it ...
13 Jun, 2020, 07.08 PM IST
Global death toll from COVID-19 passes 400,000The milestone was reached Sunday, a day after the Brazilian government stopped publishing a running total of coronavirus deaths and infecti...
07 Jun, 2020, 04.13 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
China reopens more schools, revives flightsOf the new cases, two were imported and three came from the northeastern province of Jilin that has seen a small spike in infections of unk...
17 May, 2020, 08.01 AM IST
Death toll due to COVID-19 rises to 1,373; number of cases climb to 42,533A total of 67 deaths were reported since Sunday evening, of which 28 fatalities were reported from Gujarat, 27 from Maharashtra, six from R...
04 May, 2020, 10.38 AM IST
After pause, ICMR says protocol key for antibody testsA day after the Indian Council of Medical Research halted antibody testing for two days after receiving complaints about inaccuracies, it a...
23 Apr, 2020, 08.06 AM IST
COVID-19: Novartis to begin HCQ trialsEven as there is still question hanging over the efficacy of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) as medication for Covid-19, Swiss drug maker Novartis...
22 Apr, 2020, 07.29 AM IST
Twitter, LinkedIn list Reliance's coronavirus response among top work resonating mostBillionaire Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries and its philanthropic arm Reliance Foundation have figured on LinkedIn and Twitter's lists ...
19 Apr, 2020, 11.35 AM IST
Global death toll from Covid-19 nears 17,000The number of deaths around the world from the novel coronavirus cases stood at 16,961, according to a tally compiled by AFP on Tuesday fro...
25 Mar, 2020, 12.12 AM IST
HSBC sends home 100 London staff, confirms China coronavirus caseHSBC Holdings PLC has sent home more than 100 staff in London after a worker tested positive for the coronavirus, the first known case at a...
06 Mar, 2020, 10.56 AM IST
Covid-19: 'Very homesick' Wuhan residents trickle back to stricken cityThe young couple stepped from a Chinese bullet train onto the deserted platform of Wuhan Station and into the epicentre of the coronavirus ...
05 Mar, 2020, 12.51 PM IST
Iran reports 22 deaths from coronavirus; 141 infectedThe number of people diagnosed with the disease is 141, the chart showed. It did not specify whether those who have died were included in t...
27 Feb, 2020, 01.37 PM IST
China reports 254 new virus deaths and 15,152 daily casesHundreds of infections have been reported in more than two dozen other countries and territories, but only two people have died from the vi...
13 Feb, 2020, 02.37 PM IST
Nipah death toll touches 12, samples of fruit eating bats being collected for testingAccording to an official, the droppings, urine and secretions of the bats would also be sent for testing.
26 May, 2018, 07.22 PM IST
Swine flu: 11 more die, toll rises to 2,108The ministry said that the death toll has increased to 435 in Gujarat, which is the worst hit state in the country.
03 Apr, 2015, 09.00 PM IST
Swine flu claims 20 more lives, toll rises to 2,064Swine flu claimed the lives of 20 more persons as the death toll in the country rose to 2,064 while the number of persons affected by the H...
31 Mar, 2015, 07.35 PM IST
51 more swine flu deaths, affected cases cross 25,000 markSwine flu deaths continued unabated as 51 more people died of the virus raising the toll to 1370 while the number of affected crossed the 2...
08 Mar, 2015, 09.43 PM IST