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There have now been more than 2.5 million coronavirus infections worldwide.The current figure stands at 2,501,156, according to Johns Hopkins University in the US.The death toll currently stands at 171,810.
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France on Tuesday reported 531 deaths from COVID-19 in 24 hours as the number of people in hospital and intensive care continued to decline. The daily tally -- 387 deaths in hospital and 144 in nursing homes -- brought France's total epidemic death toll to 20,796, top health official...
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A woman police constable posted at 'Varsha', the official residence of Maharashtra chief minister, tested positive for coronavirus on Tuesday, a senior official said.Also, a male constable at the official residence of Leader of Opposition in the Assembly Devendra Fadnavis has tested positive,...
23:04
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson spoke with US President Donald Trump on Tuesday and thanked him for his good wishes while he was recovering from the coronavirus as the two leaders agreed on the importance of a coordinated international response to the pandemic that has infected over 2.5...
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The Gautam Buddh Nagar district magistrate today said the Noida-Delhi border will be completely closed as a preventive measure to fight the coronavirus pandemic. Taking on to his Twitter handle, GB Nagar DM said, As a preventive measure to fight COVID-19, we are closing Delhi-Gautam Budh...
22:26
The number of active Covid-19 cases in Italy has gone down for the second day in a row, according data released by the the Italian Civil Protection Agency on Tuesday.The country saw the biggest daily drop in active cases, reporting 528 fewer cases than on Monday.The number of patients in ICU has...
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The government on Tuesday announced that it will conduct a telephone survey to garner feedback from citizens on prevalence and distribution of coronavirus symptoms and urged people to participate in the exercise in good measure. They will be called from the number 1921, the health ministry...
22:07
Human coronavirus vaccine trials will begin on Thursday in Oxford, UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock said today.
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Cautioning people against giving communal colour to the coronavirus pandemic, former Reserve Bank Governor Raghuram Rajan has said such behaviour could explode and make it much harder for different communities to get along. Rajan's comments come in the wake allegations that Tabligh-e-Jamat...
21:19
A further 828 people have died in hospitals across the United Kingdom in a day, taking the total to 17,337 - latest government figures show.The number of cases has also increased by 4,301 in 24 hours, bringing the total of 1,29,044.Meanwhile, 18,206 tests were carried out on Monday, the...
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The Maharashtra government on Tuesday withdrew its lockdown relaxation norms for Mumbai andPune regions, both coronavirus hotspots, and revised its last week's guidelines prohibiting door-to-door delivery of newspapers and magazines in the state.The curb on doorstep delivery of newspapers...
20:18
The Delhi government will start COVID-19 testing for mediapersons from Wednesday, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Tuesday, after 53 scribes tested positive for the novel coronavirus in Mumbai.Addressing the media online, the chief minister said his government has set up a centre where free...
20:04
In a severe and unprecedented crisis, such as the one our world is currently battling, some individuals and institutions change and become better selves of their own. They reinvent themselves by making introspective efforts to let the good and positive in them get the better of their lesser...
19:52
The Scripps National Spelling Bee has been cancelled after organisers concluded there is no clear path to safely set a new date in 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic. The decision, announced by Scripps, means kids who are in eighth grade this year will miss their final...
19:33
The National Human Rights Commission sent a notice to the Maharashtra police chief on Tuesday in connection with the lynching of three persons in Palghar district of the state, officials said. In a statement, the NHRC said it has called for a detailed report in four weeks, including...
19:26
Pakistan Army on Tuesday resorted to intense shelling on forward posts and villages along the Line of Control (LoC) in two sectors of Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir, drawing befitting retaliation from the Indian Army, a defence spokesperson said.At about 1720 hours, Pakistan army initiated...
19:23
The Bombay high court on Tuesday decided to cancel its month-long summer vacation scheduled to begin on May 7 if the nation-wide lockdown imposed due to COVID-19 is lifted on May 3.The high court summer vacation is scheduled from May 7 to June 7.If the lockdown is lifted on May 3 then the...
19:10
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs would meet on April 28 via video-conferencing to discuss matters related to the COVID-19 outbreak and the nationwide lockdown, sources said on Tuesday.The meeting has been convened by committee chairman Anand Sharma of the Congress.The panel is...
19:05
The Supreme Court Tuesday extended its guidelines issued to prevent the spread of coronavirus in children's homes to Nari Niketans or women's shelter homes and asked the government to look into the possibility of releasing the inmates wherever feasible to avoid overcrowding.A bench of Justices N...
18:41
Not just in China, but in Kerala also robot is now playing a key role in the health workers' fight against COVID-19, thanks to the innovative spirit of a group of young minds and the support of the state Health Department. Named 'Nightingale-19', the robot is deployed to provide food and...
18:08
The Supreme Court on Tuesday, while hearing a petition seeking evacuation of Indian citizens stranded in the United States, said that they cannot be brought back amid the coronavirus lockdown. A three-judge bench headed by Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul said that the Indian citizens stranded in the...
17:19
Ahead of the ICMR asking states not to use their testing kits for two days, Rajasthan Health Minister Raghu Sharma said that the state has in fact stopped conducting rapid tests for COVID-19 as the accuracy of kits from Indian Council of Medical Research is questionable.We had received rapid...
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Update: A total of 3,252 people have been cured of coronavirus in India so far, including 705 patients who were discharged on Monday, taking the recovery percentage to 17.48 per cent, the government informed on Tuesday. A total of 1,336 new cases of coronavirus have been identified which has...
17:11
Imran Khan may be tested for the coronavirus or asked to go into isolation after a well-known philanthropist was tested positive for the COVID-19, days after meeting the Pakistan prime minister, his doctor said on Tuesday. Faisal Edhi, the son of late philanthropist Abdul Sattar Edhi and chairman...
17:07
Meanwhile, oil prices continued to crash on Tuesday after a stunning collapse a day earlier that saw US crude futures plunge below zero for the first time in history as reports said the United States could run out of storage for a glut caused by the coronavirus lockdown. Global benchmark Brent...
17:05
The Union Health ministry says that the Inter-Ministerial Central Team visiting Kolkata and Jalpaiguri in West Bengal are not receiving cooperation from the state government and the local administration. They're being stopped from visiting the areas and prevented from making on-spot...
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The body cannot recover from that level of damage overnight, and it must heal itself. Unfortunately, particularly in the lung, this healing process can lead to irreversible scarring (fibrosis) that can greatly impact lung function long term. This loss of lung capacity could involve anything...
16:52
Recovered Corornavirus patients flash the victory sign
Union Health ministry updates on coronavirus pandemic: Lav Agrawal, Joint secretary, Health Ministry, says, Till now, there are 18601 positive cases. So far, 3252 people have recovered including 705 people who recovered yesterday. This takes our recovery percentage to 17.48% We have issued...
16:47
Union Health Ministry briefs the media over Coronavirus pandemic. R Gangakhedkar, Indian Council of Medical Research says states have been advised not to use rapid testing kits for two days. There are a lot of variations and kits will be tested and validated by on-ground teams and we will...
16:06
Residents argue with a cop in Delhi
Around 160 personnel from Chandni Mahal and Nabi Karim police stations in the national capital have been tested for coronavirus, Delhi Police said on Tuesday. According to the police, 128 of these samples have tested negative while the results for the remaining samples are awaited. Earlier,...
15:57
Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday announced that Rs 50 lakh will be given to all healthcare personnel who lose their lives in the fight against COVID-19. The Chief Minister, in a video message, underlined the importance of the healthcare staff or Covid Warriors on the frontline of...
15:50
BJP leader Uma Bharti has, in a letter to Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, expressed anguish over the Palghar mob lynching incident. While referring to the Chief Minister as the son of a great father (Bal Thackeray), she demanded strict action against those responsible for the...
15:48
The son of a well-known Pakistani philanthropist, who met Prime Minister Imran Khan last week, has been tested positive for the coronavirus. Faisal Edhi, the son of famous philanthropist Abdul Sattar Edhi and chairman of the Edhi Foundation, started showing symptoms last week soon after meeting...
15:45
Richard Branson, founder, Virgin Group
Australia's second biggest airline, Virgin Australia, collapsed on Tuesday, putting 16,000 jobs under threat as the cash-strapped carrier announced that it entered voluntary administration to recapitalise the business after being battered by the coronavirus pandemic, which has crippled the global...
15:37
Singapore has extended by four weeks until June 1 a partial lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus infections in the city-state, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said on Tuesday.The measures, which include the closures of most workplaces and schools, were initially set to run from April 7 until...
15:27
The Rashtrapati Bhavan employee who was tested positive for coronavirus on Tuesday had an indirect link with a COVID-19 patient. A COVID-19 positive patient from Central Delhi, who was neither an employee of the President's Secretariat nor a resident of the President's Estate, had expired on...
15:23
The Centre is on adventurous tourism, said TMC leader Derek O'Brien on Tuesday, attacking the Government's decision to send two Inter-Ministerial Central Teams (ICMTs) to visit and monitor some districts of West Bengal without informing the state government. If you wanted adventurous tourism...
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A critical COVID-19 patient admitted to a private hospital in New Delhi has shown signs of improvement and was taken off ventilator support after he was administered plasma therapy, officials said on Tuesday. The 49-year-old had tested positive for coronavirus on April 4 and the same day he...
14:53
While many are using the lockdown period to try out Dalgona coffee or play online 'antakshari', a couple from Maharashtra dug a little deeper for an answer to their woes. Literally. In 21 days after the lockdown began, Gajanan Pakmode and his wife Pushpa dug a 25-feet deep well outside their...
14:47
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Tuesday demanded that the Centre release more wheat to the state in view of the increasing demand for ration by people amid the lockdown. The Food Corporation of India reserves, he noted, are full of wheat stock. The demand for ration has increased...
14:41
Amid the coronavirus lockdown, 150 sanitised and cleaned buses left from Gwalior for Kota this morning to bring back around 10,000 students from Madhya Pradesh who are stranded there. A three-member team led by Additional Commissioner, Municipal Corporation of Gwalior, Dinesh Shukla is also going...
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Nineteen nurses and six other paramedical staff members of the Ruby Hall Clinic in Pune have tested positive for coronavirus, authorities said on Tuesday. All of them are currently asymptomatic and stable, Ruby Hall Clinic's Chief Executive Officer Bomi Bhote said. Last week, a nurse...
14:12
Eerily empty streets in Tokyo
A research scholar waiting to meet his newborn baby, a graduate worried about the job offer in Bangalore and a pregnant woman whose four-day work trip now stretches interminably are among the at least 220 Indians stranded in Japan and getting increasingly desperate to return home. Stuck in a...
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Narottam Mishra, Kamal Patel, Meena Singh, Tulsi Silawat and Govind Singh Rajput on Tuesday took oath as ministers in Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan's cabinet.This is the state's first cabinet expansion almost a month after Shivraj Singh Chouhan was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Madhya...
12:56
Princess Hend Al Qassimi, a member of the UAE royal family
India's ambassador in the UAE has reminded the diaspora living in the Gulf country of the importance of adhering to the rule of law, saying discrimination is against our moral fabric as some Indians posted Islamophobic comments on social media platforms, triggering outrage from the Arab...
12:50
2008 Mumbai terror attack mastermind Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi
Pakistan has quietly removed around 1,800 terrorists from its watch list, including that of the 2008 Mumbai attack mastermind and LeT operations commander Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, ahead of a new round of assessments by the global anti-money-laundering watchdog FATF, according to a US-based start-up...
12:45
Alarmed by reports that 53 media persons have contracted coronavirus in Maharashtra, a Minister on Tuesday urged Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa to screen all the journalists in Karnataka. During the regular COVID-19 related briefing on Monday, a reporter had raised the issue of 53...
12:38
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar has condemned the recent incident of mob lynching in Maharashtra's Palghar in which three people were beaten to death on suspicion of being thieves. Whatever happened in Palghar should not have happened, it is unfortunate and condemnable. Police...
12:37
Pakistan on Tuesday reported 16 more deaths from the coronavirus, taking the country's toll to 192, while the number of confirmed spiked to over 9,000. Prime Minister Imran Khan said his government was fully cognizant of the problems being faced by the people and making efforts to resolve...
12:20
CNN's Richard Quest tests positive: @richardquest tweeted, I have caught coronavirus. I am blessed in that I have few symptoms - just a cough. I am saving my prayers and thoughts for those less fortunate. Stay in. And protect lives.
12:12
472 more COVID-19 cases have been reported in Maharashtra till 10 am today, taking the total number of coronavirus cases in the state to 4,676, according to the Public Health Department, Government of Maharashtra.The department said that nine more deaths have been reported, taking the total death...
11:55
And this is what Delhi is doing for journalists: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday said his government will conduct COVID-19 test on mediapersons in the national capital, after 53 scribes tested positive for novel coronavirus in Mumbai. Responding to a tweet in which a person...
11:51
The Mumbai Press Club has written to Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray asking for immediate assistance after 53 journalists tested positive for the coronavirus. In the letter, the Mumbai Press Club President Gurbir Singh, said that since the media was considered a part of 'essential...
11:32
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A 12-yr-old girl, who was among 11 people who walked from Telangana to return to their native place in Bijapur, died on April 18. The Chief Medical Health Officer, Bijapur says I'm yet to see her postmortem report but it seems she died either due to exhaustion, electrolyte imbalance or...
11:22
The Health Department of West Bengal said it has received the first set of rapid test kits from the Indian Council of Medical Research. This comes days after the department levelled allegations against the top medical body for supplying defective COVID-19 test kits. The department said that 78...
11:20
President Ram Nath Kovind on Tuesday praised civil servants for handling the COVID-19 situation with sensitivity and professionalism. The civil services has played a key role in implementing policies and programmes for public welfare, Kovind said on occasion of the Civil Services Day. In the...
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New York on Monday (local time) launched a large-scale COVID-19 antibody testing of random samples in an effort to find out how much of its population has been infected with the coronavirus. The testing is run by the state's health department and started with 3,000 samples this week based on a...
10:53
China plans to inject Chinese medics with coronavirus vaccines by year-end to protect them to deal with any emergency situation, while 11 new confirmed COVID-19 cases were reported in the country with no deaths due to the virus, health officials said. China's National Health Commission on Tuesday...
10:46
Eminent economist Arvind Panagariya has said that India must now think long-term to create better paying formal sector jobs by seizing the opportunity presented by multinationals possibly moving out of China to diversify their operations in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Panagariya, Professor...
10:24
After constantly rising for the past several months, the volume, as well as value, of transactions through UPI payment system dropped in March due to the 21-day nationwide lockdown imposed to combat the coronavirus infection. Unified Payments Interface is an instant payment system developed by...
10:14
On April 14, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi extended the national lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus till May 3, he referred to the Aarogya Setu app as a critical link in the fight against the spread of COVID-19 in the country. Since being released on April 2, the app has seen over 50...
10:04
The death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 590 and the number of cases climbed to 18,601 on Tuesday, according to the Union health ministry. The number of active COVID-19 cases stood at 14,759 while 3,251 people have been cured and discharged, and one patient has migrated, the ministry said. The...
09:55
West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar on Tuesday requested Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to cooperate with the centre to combat the corona crisis and avoid confrontation. My appeal to all: Support government @MamataOfficial to contain and combat corona curse. My request to CM Mamata Banerjee to...
09:48
Using double layered bags, mandatory labelling and colour coded bins for the management of waste generated during the diagnostics and treatment of suspected and confirmed COVID-19 patients are part of the guidelines issued by the Central Pollution Control Board. The apex pollution monitoring body...
09:44
In Chandigarh, the family of Dr Sanjay Jaswal, deployed on COVID19 duty at PGIMER, say he hasn't been able to return his home for 17 days now. His wife Dr Geetika Singh, who works at a private hospital, says, Hopefully he'll be home if everything comes out to be negative. He's on quarantine after...
09:38
Gireesh, a coconut tree climber is a familiar face for police in Alappuzha. Ever since the lockdown has started, this Kalavoor native has been fetching free food and water for them as his token of appreciation for the work they render for the society.I see this man wearing shabby clothes,...
09:23
And the selfless doctors working in the frontlines to keep COVID-19 at bay. In Chhattisgarh, Santoshi Manikpuri, a health care professional in Kerawahi village of Kondagaon district, has been attending to patients even in the 8th month of her pregnancy. She says, I am happy to do my work and that...
09:01
India COVID-19 tally: 47 deaths and 1336 new cases reported in the last 24 hours. India's total number of Coronavirus positive cases rises to 18,601 (including 14759 active cases, 3252 cured/discharged/migrated and 590 deaths), says the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
08:54
After one positive case of coronavirus was found in Rashtrapati Bhavan, 125 families have been advised to remain in self-isolation as per the Union Health Ministry's guidelines, according to sources. Till now, over 2000 people have tested positive for coronavirus in Delhi. As per the Ministry of...
08:52
North Korea's leader, Kim Jong Un, is in grave danger following a surgery this month, according to a US intelligence official with direct knowledge.Kim recently missed the celebration of his grandfather's birthday on April 15, which raised speculation about his well-being. He had been seen four...
08:48
Update: President Donald Trump has said that he will sign an executive order to temporarily suspend immigration into America, amid the coronavirus outbreak that has killed more than 40,000 people in the US, the country with the most fatalities in the pandemic. The number of people killed in the...
08:46
US President Donald Trump says he will temporarily suspend immigration to the country. In a tweet, Trump said, In light of the attack from the Invisible Enemy, as well as the need to protect the jobs of our GREAT American Citizens, I will be signing an Executive Order to temporarily suspend...
08:39
Maharashtra health minister Rajesh Tope on Monday said there should not be any ban on liquor shops in the state if social distancing measures, in place to curb the COVID-19 spread, are strictly followed. Liquor shops are closed in the state since late month when the coronavirus-enforced...
08:28
The United States has evidence that in January and February, China bought 18 times more amount of masks and personal protective equipment, which they are now selling at high rates, a top White House official has claimed. Peter Navarro, White House Director of Trade and Manufacturing, alleged...
08:06
Tablighi Jamaat leader Maulana Saad Kandhalvi, who has been booked by the Delhi Police for holding a religious congregation in New Delhi during the lockdown, on Monday urged the followers of the organisation to pray at home in the month of Ramzan. I request all, both in India and...
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Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, on Monday sent out a special message for those working across the UK in the fight against COVID-19.In a statement, the 98-year-old royal said, As we approach World Immunisation Week, I wanted to recognise the vital and urgent work being done by so many to...
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