COVID-19

Sikkim reports five new COVID-19 cases

10:56 pm March 20, 2021

Gangtok: Sikkim reported five fresh COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, pushing the coronavirus caseload to 6,204, an official said on Saturday. State Information Education and Communication (IEC) member Sonam Bhutia said that four cases were reported from North Sikkim district and one from East Sikkim district. Sikkim now has 53 active COVID-19 cases, […]

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India crosses 4-crore vaccination doses figure

10:48 pm March 19, 2021

New Delhi: India has scaled a landmark peak in its fight against COVID-19 with the total doses administered in the country having crossed 4 crore till Friday evening, the Union health ministry said. A total of 4,11,55,978 vaccine doses have been given, as per the provisional report till Friday 7pm. As many as 18,16,161 people were vaccinated during the day. […]

No exams till Class 5 in Raj govt schools due to COVID

11:44 pm March 17, 2021

Jaipur: The Rajasthan government decided on Wednesday not to conduct any examination till the fifth grade in state-run schools in the current academic session due to the rising coronavirus cases. The children of these classes will be promoted to the next class on the basis of assessment. The Education Department issued orders in this regard […]

101-year-old man gets first COVID jab at pvt hospital in Delhi

11:07 pm March 17, 2021

New Delhi: Centenarian Brij Prakash Gupta, who was born a year after the end of the deadly Spanish Flu, received his first shot of COVID-19 vaccine in Delhi on Wednesday, his son said. Gupta, now 107, stepped out of his home in south Delhi ”for the first time since March 20, last year” to get his Covishield jab, son Vimal Gupta said, adding […]

Bengal logs 225 new COVID-19 cases, two more deaths

11:20 pm March 16, 2021

Kolkata: Two more people died of COVID-19 in West Bengal on Tuesday, raising the toll to 10,297, the state health department said in its bulletin. Both of them — one in North 24 Parganas and the other in Howrah — died due to comorbidities, where COVID-19 was incidental, the department said. At least 255 new […]