novel coronavirus

Delhi zoo to get more than 10 animal species from states

Observing animals 24×7, all healthy: Delhi zoo

8:36 pm April 8, 2020

New Delhi: All animals in the Delhi zoo are healthy and their behaviour is being monitored round-the-clock amid the COVID-19 outbreak, an official said on Wednesday. The Central Zoo Authority, a statutory body of the Environment Ministry, had on Monday put all zoos across the country on “highest” alert after a tiger at the Bronx […]

Health Ministry issues advisory for healthcare workers

Nurses face racial taunts linked to coronavirus in Assam

12:06 am April 7, 2020

Guwahati: At least three nurses hailing from a Northeastern state neighbouring Assam have faced racial taunts linked to novel coronavirus on the streets of Guwahati while they were returning from a private hospital where they work. The abusers probably mistook the nurses with mongoloid features for nationals of China from where COVID-19 had spread worldwide. […]

Companies hopeful of economic recovery in 2021 but cautious about COVID-19 pandemic

Two pvt hospitals in Mumbai sealed after staff test positive

11:26 pm April 6, 2020

Mumbai: Two private hospitals in Mumbai have been sealed after some of their medical staff, including doctors and nurses, tested positive for the novel coronavirus, civic officials said on Monday. Three doctors and 26 nurses tested positive for novel coronavirus in Wockhardt Hospital in Mumbai Central and the facility has been sealed off to prevent […]

Coronavirus: Latest updates on COVID-19 crisis around the world

China reports 30 new coronavirus cases; nine districts in Wuhan classified as low-risk’

2:57 pm April 5, 2020

Beijing: China has reported 30 new cases of the novel coronavirus, including five locally transmitted infections, even as nine of the 13 administrative districts of virus-hit Wuhan city were declared low-risk areas’ signifying a gradual return to normalcy, officials said on Sunday. China’s National Health Commission (NHC) in its daily report said other than the […]

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

Iran coronavirus death toll rises 134 to 3,294

8:14 pm April 3, 2020

Tehran: Iran on Friday announced 134 more deaths from the novel coronavirus, bringing the officially confirmed total to 3,294. Health ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour told a news conference that 2,715 new infections had been confirmed in the past 24 hours, taking the total to 53,183. Iran is one of the countries worst-hit by the coronavirus […]