COVID-19 deaths

168 new COVID-19 cases in Ahmedabad, five deaths

11:39 pm August 28, 2020

Ahmedabad: With the addition of 168 coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, the caseload in Gujarat’s Ahmedabad district climbed to 31,013, the state health department said on Friday. Of these 168 new cases, 145 were from Ahmedabad city, while 23 others from the district, a release issued by the department said. With the death […]

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Mexico coronavirus chief sidesteps calls to resign

11:13 pm August 1, 2020

Mexico City: The head of Mexico‘s efforts to fight the coronavirus pandemic has sidestepped calls to resign after Mexico’s death count rose to overtake the United Kingdom as the third-highest in the world. Assistant Health Secretary Hugo López-Gatell said late Friday that “I express my respect” to the nine of Mexico’s 32 state governors who called for […]

One new COVID-19 case in Mizoram, tally at 4,428

J-K records nine more COVID-19 deaths, 470 new cases

8:14 pm July 27, 2020

Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir reported nine more COVID-19 deaths on Monday, taking their number to 321 as 470 new cases of the infection took the tally in the Union territory to 18,390. Of the fresh cases, 161 are from Jammu region and 309 are in the Kashmir Valley, officials said. “Nine people, who were COVID-19 […]

COVID-19 death toll rises to 3 in Odisha; 68 new cases

10:41 pm May 10, 2020

Bhubaneswar: Ganjam district in Odisha reported its first COVID-19 death after a man succumbed to the infection on Sunday, taking the death toll in the state to three, a health department official said. The total number of coronavirus cases in Odisha has climbed to 362, with 68 more testing positive for the disease, the official […]

Four more die of Covid-19 in West Bengal; toll now 72

7:23 pm May 6, 2020

Kolkata: West Bengal reported four Covid-19 deaths in the last 24 hours, taking the toll to 72 in the state, Home Secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay said on Wednesday. These patients died directly because of Covid-19, he said. Bandyopadhyay said 72 others succumbed to various concurrent ailments and the novel coronavirus infection in them was “incidental”. He […]