coronavirus

Death toll due to COVID-19 touches 640; cases rise to 19,984

4:29 pm April 22, 2020

New Delhi: The death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 640 and the number of cases to 19,984 in the country on Wednesday, according to the Union health ministry. The number of active COVID-19 cases is 15,474, while 3,869 people have been cured and discharged, and one patient has migrated, the ministry said. The total […]

Goa bustles with tourists but pandemic may play party-pooper

Goa may allow entry of only coronavirus negative people

11:42 pm April 21, 2020

Panaji: Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Tuesday said his government was considering to allow the entry of only those people who are coronavirus negative once the borders of the state open again after the end of the lockdown period. Sawant also hinted that the state BJP government might allow only coronavirus negative people with […]

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Moscow unveils Chinese-inspired coronavirus hospital

9:11 pm April 21, 2020

Moscow: An 800-bed hospital that was hastily built to treat coronavirus patients has opened outside Russia’s capital Moscow, city officials said on Tuesday. The clinic, 70 kilometres (40 miles) south of Moscow, was inspired by a coronavirus facility in the Chinese province of Wuhan, officials said, and was built in a month. “Unlike similar facilities […]

Police inspector dies of coronavirus in Madhya Pradesh

3:38 pm April 21, 2020

Indore: A police inspector died due to coronavirus in Madhya Pradesh‘s Indore district on Tuesday, an official said. Last week also, a police officer died here after suffering from the disease. In the latest case, the inspector, who was posted at a police station in Ujjain and also suffered from high blood pressure, was initially […]

France fast-tracks citizenship for foreign virus fighters

France virus toll tops 20,000 after 547 new deaths: official

11:49 pm April 20, 2020

Paris: France on Monday announced that more than 20,000 people had now died from the coronavirus in the country after 547 new deaths, even as tentative signs grew that the epidemic was steadying. “Tonight, our country has passed a barrier that is symbolic and particularly painful,” top health official Jerome Salomon told reporters, announcing a […]