Day: March 30, 2020

Coronavirus: China reports 4 deaths, 31 new cases

3:01 pm March 30, 2020

Beijing: China has reported 31 new cases of coronavirus including 30 imported ones while the death toll reached 3,304 with four more fatalities, health officials said on Monday. The country’s National Health Commission (NHC) in its daily report said 31 new confirmed COVID-19 cases on the Chinese mainland were reported on Sunday, of which 30 […]

US regulator approves limited use of malaria drugs for virus

2:56 pm March 30, 2020

Washington: A limited emergency-use authorisation for two antimalarial drugs touted as game-changers by President Donald Trump has been issued by the US Food and Drug Administration to treat coronavirus patients. In a statement published Sunday, the US Department of Health and Human Services detailed recent donations of medicine to a national stockpile — including chloroquine […]

China successfully launches new Earth observation satellite

China slashes rate, pumps USD 7 bn into market to counter virus

2:49 pm March 30, 2020

Beijing: China‘s central bank on Monday cut an interest rate on loans to banks by the largest margin in five years and injected 50 billion yuan (USD 7 billion) into the financial system to help the world’s second-largest economy weather the coronavirus impact. The People’s Bank of China (PBoC) said it launched a 50-billion-yuan reverse […]

Yoga today is an integral part of global lifestyle: Modi

PM shares 3D animated videos of him practising yoga

10:27 am March 30, 2020

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday shared 3D animated videos of him performing yoga on Twitter to show how he remains fit. “During yesterday’s #MannKiBaat, someone asked me about my fitness routine during this time. Hence, thought of sharing these Yoga videos,” he tweeted. “I hope you also begin practising Yoga regularly,” he […]

Another COVID-19 patient dies in Bengal, death count 2

10:15 am March 30, 2020

Kolkata: A woman infected with the coronavirus died at a state-run hospital in north Bengal on Monday, taking the total number of COVID-19 deaths in West Bengal to two, hospital sources said. The 44-year-old woman from Kalimpong in Darjeeling district breathed her last around 2 am at the North Bengal Medical College and Hospital, where […]