coronavirus

US to hit all of Iran's financial sector with sanctions

Iran reports 113 new virus deaths, raising total to 724

5:12 pm March 15, 2020

Tehran: Iran announced on Sunday that the new coronavirus has killed 113 more people, the highest single-day death toll yet in one of the world’s worst-affected countries. People “should cancel all travel and stay at home so that we may see the situation improving in the coming days,” health ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour said in […]

Four new coronavirus patients in Mumbai; Maharashtra count 26

8:30 pm March 14, 2020

Mumbai: Four new patients of coronavirus were confirmed in Mumbai on Saturday, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said. It took the number of confirmed cases in Maharashtra to 26 and those in Mumbai to eight. Of the new patients confirmed in Mumbai, one is resident of the city while others are from Kamothe, Vashi and […]

Coronavirus: 2 admitted in Nashik for suspected exposure

8:24 pm March 14, 2020

Nashik: Two people were on Saturday admitted in the Nashik civil hospital for suspected exposure to novel coronavirus, health officials said. One of them is a 41-year-old man from here who had gone to Bangladesh on March 8 and returned to India on March 13, while the other was a 33-year-old man who had visited […]

Pune start-up develops eco-friendly hand sanitiser

Maha: Crackdown ordered on mask-sanitiser irregularities

8:11 pm March 14, 2020

Mumbai: Maharashtra police have been ordered to crack down on black marketing of masks and manufacture of fake sanitisers in wake of the novel coronavirus outbreak, state Home Minister Anil Deshmukh said here on Saturday. Deshmukh informed that action will be taken under the Information Technology Act against those who spread fake news or misinformation. […]

Two coronavirus cases found in Yavatmal; Maharashtra count 22

7:50 pm March 14, 2020

Yavatmal: Two persons who had recently returned from Dubai were confirmed to have contracted the coronavirus in Maharashtra’s Yavatmal city on Saturday, a senior official said. It took the number of confirmed cases in the state to 22. The two patients were among a group of nine who had returned from Dubai on March 1, […]