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Record spike of 28,701 COVID-19 cases takes India's tally to 8,78,254

India’s COVID-19 cases jump from 2 lakh to 3 lakh in 10 days as it records worst daily spike

5:02 pm June 13, 2020

New Delhi: Ten days after recording two lakh COVID-19 cases, India surpassed the three lakh-mark on Saturday with the worst daily spike of 11,458 infections, while the death toll too climbed to 8,884 with 386 new fatalities, the Union Health Ministry said. India took 64 days to cross the 1 lakh-mark from 100 cases, then […]

398 new coronavirus cases in Gujarat, 30 deaths

11:27 pm May 20, 2020

Ahmedabad: The number of coronavirus cases in Gujarat rose to 12,539 with 398 new patients detected on Wednesday, senior health official said. The death toll due to the pandemic in the state increased to 749 with 30 more patients succumbing, she added. 176 COVID-19 patients were discharged on Wednesday, taking the total number of recovered […]

US choir outbreak called 'superspreader event' in report

Study: Virus death toll in NYC worse than official tally

12:49 am May 12, 2020

New York: New York City’s death toll from the coronavirus may be thousands of fatalities worse than the official tally kept by the city and state, according to an analysis released Monday by the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. Between mid-March and early May, about 24,000 more people died in the city than […]

Indore girl wants permission to study law at age 13

COVID-19 may make education outcomes worse: World Bank

3:20 pm May 11, 2020

New Delhi: The COVID-19 pandemic has threatened to make education outcomes worse and without aggressive policy, the virus outbreak across the globe will have immediate costs on both learning and health of children and youth, according to the World Bank’s education team. Experts from the World Bank have pointed out that even before the pandemic, […]

MP COVID-19 count rises by 184; seven more patients die

116 new coronavirus cases in Madhya Pradesh, 11 deaths

11:25 pm May 9, 2020

Bhopal: The number of coronavirus cases in Madhya Pradesh rose to 3,457 on Saturday as 116 persons were found to have contracted infection, 53 of them in Indore, health officials said. The pandemic also claimed eleven lives since Friday night, which took the death toll in the state to 211, they added. Five deaths were […]