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COVID-19: Delhi records 111 deaths, 5,879 fresh cases

Coronavirus cases rise to 81 in India: officials

8:08 pm March 13, 2020

New Delhi: The number of novel coronavirus cases on Friday rose to 81, which include 16 Italians and one Canadian, Health Ministry officials said. Addressing reporters, Health Ministry Joint Secretary Lav Agarwal said coronavirus is not a health emergency and that there is no need to panic. He said seven more coronavirus patients have been […]

44-yr-old Coronavirus: NDA suspends large gatherings, expeditionsgaon resident tests positive of coronavirus

Latest updates on coronavirus crisis around the world

7:02 pm March 9, 2020

New Delhi: Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus crisis in India and other parts of the world on Monday. 1:43 p.m. Man under observation for coronavirus symptoms goes missing from hospital in Mangaluru, Karnataka, officials say. 1:33 p.m In view of the coronavirus threat, the National Green Tribunal issues a notice stopping the […]

406 people brought back from Wuhan may be released next week if final samples test negative

7:35 pm February 15, 2020

New Delhi: A total of 406 people, who are housed at a quarantine facility of the ITBP after being brought back from China due to coronavirus outbreak there, may be released next week if their final samples turn out to be negative, officials said on Saturday. The final samples of all the people quarantined at […]

CPWD DG writes to health ministry: ‘Let us develop AIIMS building in Darbhanga’

12:21 pm January 4, 2020

New Delhi: The CPWD, a prime construction agency of the central government, has requested the health ministry to entrust the work of developing AIIMS building in Bihar’s Darbhanga to the agency. In his letter to Ministry of Health and Family Welfare secretary Preeti Sudan, Central Public Works Department Director General Prabhakar Singh said the CPWD […]

Pastor confirmed with Ebola as disease spreads in DR Congo

1:23 pm July 15, 2019

Kinshasa: The first case of Ebola has been confirmed in Goma, the biggest city to have been affected by the disease since its outbreak in eastern DR Congo last August, the health ministry said on Sunday. The patient is a pastor who had been preaching in church and would have touched the hands of worshippers […]