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Pakistan’s COVID-19 cases reach 292,765

1:08 pm August 23, 2020

Islamabad: Pakistan’s coronavirus cases on Sunday reached 292,765 after 591 new infections were reported in the last 24 hours, the health ministry said. Four patients died during the period, taking the number of fatalities in the country to 6,235, according to the Ministry of National Health Services. A total of 275,836 people have recovered from […]

Thane district reports 1,284 new COVID-19 cases, 26 deaths

12:34 pm August 23, 2020

Thane: The number of COVID-19 cases in Maharashtra’s Thane district has gone up to 1,13,884 with 1,284 more people testing positive for the disease, a health official said on Sunday. The fatality count in the district has reached 3,240 as 26 more people succumbed to the viral infection on Saturday, he said. Kalyan town in […]

COVID caseload in India breaches 30-lakh mark

12:29 pm August 23, 2020

New Delhi: India’s COVID-19 tally sprinted past the 30-lakh mark, just 16 days after it crossed 20 lakh, while 22,80,566 people have recuperated in the country so far pushing the recovery rate to 74.90 per cent, according to the Union Health Ministry data. COVID-19 cases in the country jumped from 10 lakh to 20 lakh […]

BSF kills 5 intruders along India-Pak IB in Punjab

1:54 pm August 22, 2020

Chandigarh/New Delhi: The Border Security Force shot dead five intruders along the India-Pakistan International Border in Punjab early Saturday, a senior BSF officer said. This is the highest number of intruders killed in a single incident along the over 3,300 km-long border with Pakistan in more than a decade, officials said. Punjab shares a 553-km-long […]

COVID-19: Antibodies found in 27.7 pc of people in Punjab’s containment zones

8:12 pm August 20, 2020

Chandigarh: Antibodies against the COVID-19 infection have been found in 27.7 per cent of people in Punjab’s containment zones, according to the findings of a sero-survey. This was Punjab’s first exclusive survey and was conducted in five containment zones from August 1 to 17 among a systematically selected random sample population of 1,250 people. There […]