New Delhi, April 29 India saw a record single-day rise of 3,79,257 new coronavirus infections pushing the total tally of Covid cases to 1,83,76,524, while active cases crossed the 30-lakh mark, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Thursday. The death toll increased to 2,04,832 with a recordRead More

Chandigarh, April 27 Following a shortfall of oxygen in Punjab, the state will get 60 metric tonnes of the life-saving gas from Bokaro. To save the transit time, empty tankers will be airlifted by the Indian Air Force from the Chandigarh airport today and transported to Bokaro. The refilled containersRead More

Chandigarh, April 27 In the last one week (April 19 to 26), the number of new infections have grown by an average of 1.8% every day in the state. However, the bigger worry is high load of active cases. State’s active case ratio is 14.4 per cent and the numberRead More

New York, April 27 US health officials say fully vaccinated Americans don’t need to wear masks outdoors anymore unless they are in a big crowd of strangers, and those who are unvaccinated can go without a face covering outside in some cases, too. The Centres for Disease Control and PreventionRead More

Toronto, April 27 The government of Ontario will be getting help from Canada’s military in dealing with a surge of Covid infections, while several other Canadian provinces are tightening health restrictions in hope of avoiding a similar situation. Ontario’s solicitor general says resources are coming from the Canadian armed forcesRead More

Washington, April 28 The United States is sending a whole series of help that India needs in its battle against Covid, President Joe Biden said here, reiterating that New Delhi had done the same when his country was in need last year. Biden had spoken at length with Prime MinisterRead More

New Delhi, April 28 India saw a record single-day rise of 3,60,960 coronavirus cases, which pushed the total tally to 1,79,97,267, while the death toll crossed two lakh following 3,293 fresh fatalities, according to Union health ministry data updated on Wednesday. The number of people who have recuperated from theRead More

Washington, April 28 Covaxin, India’s home-grown Covid vaccine, has been found to neutralise the 617 variant of the deadly virus, White House chief medical adviser and America’s top pandemic expert Dr Anthony Fauci has said. Fauci was speaking to reporters during a conference call on Tuesday. “This is something whereRead More

Chandigarh, April 25 Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh has ordered the state’s health department to order 30 lakh Covishield doses for vaccinating people from 18 to 45 years, with directions to use CM Covid Relief Fund for meeting vaccine requirements of the poor. The chief minister asked the Department toRead More

Baghdad, April 25 Iraq’s Interior Ministry said Sunday that 82 people died and 110 were injured in a catastrophic fire that broke out in the intensive care unit of a Baghdad hospital tending to severe coronavirus patients. Negligence on the part of hospital authorities has been blamed for the SaturdayRead More