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Decline in COVID-19 positivity rate despite increasing tests exponentially: Govt

7:48 pm August 25, 2020

New Delhi: The Union Health Ministry on Tuesday said though COVID-19 testing has been increased exponentially, there has been a steady decline in the positivity rate and highlighted that the number of active cases of the infection reduced by 6,423 for the first time in a span of 24 hours. The testing for the disease has been […]

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Comatose Russian dissident visited by wife, aide in Germany

7:18 pm August 23, 2020

Berlin: Alexi Navalny wife and a top aide visited him Sunday in a Berlin hospital where the comatose Russian dissident is being treated by German doctors after a suspected poisoning. Navalny was flown to Germany on Saturday from Siberia after doctors determined he was stable enough to be brought to the capital’s Charité hospital for […]

Plane carrying ‘poisoned’ Vladmir Putin critic Alexei Navalny lands in Germany

Plane carrying ‘poisoned’ Putin’s critic Navalny lands in Germany

2:16 pm August 22, 2020

Berlin: A plane carrying Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, who is in a coma after a suspected poisoning, touched down early Saturday in Berlin, where he will be treated in the German capital’s main hospital. Navalny’s spokeswoman and a representative of the NGO that arranged the flight confirmed that the plane had landed. “Navalny is in […]

Syria says US forces clash with Syrian troops, killing 1

11:44 pm August 17, 2020

Damascus: US forces clashed with Syrian troops in the northeast on Monday, killing at least one soldier and wounding two others, state media said, while the US military said it responded to small arms fire near a Syrian checkpoint. Tensions have been rising in northeastern Syria in recent months as the Syrian military has cut off American access to several areas. […]

Safety, efficacy main concerns with Russia’s COVID-19 vaccine: Nobel laureate Peter Doherty

2:55 pm August 17, 2020

Kolkata: Echoing the scientific community’s scepticism over Russia’s COVID-19 vaccine rolled out for emergency use, Nobel laureate Peter Charles Doherty says his “big worry” is there could be refusals for other vaccines if doubts over its safety turn out to be true. Russian President Vladimir Putin last week announced that his country has developed the world’s first vaccine against COVID-19, […]