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India Coronavirus Dispatch: Pvt hospitals overcharge despite govt orders

Foreign study goes for a toss, migrants left out of govt schemes, and five things India must do before it has a vaccine--news on how the country is dealing with the pandemic

World Coronavirus Dispatch: UK to send contact tracers door to door

Infections stabilise in Australia's epicentre, big US firms to boost hiring of minorities, UK job losses worst since 2009 and other pandemic-related across the globe

Ban on passenger flights to Kolkata from six cities extended till Aug 31

Earlier, the temporary restriction on the arrival of flights to Kolkata airport from Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Chennai, Nagpur and Ahmedabad was extended till August 15

Russia registers first Covid-19 vaccine, Putin's daughter administered dose

Putin said that one of his two daughters has received a shot of the vaccine and is feeling well

Tamil Nadu asks Centre for special Rs 9,000 crore grant to combat Covid-19

Since both central and state tax revenues will fall short of the Budget Estimates, grant will help, says Palaniswami

Rajasthan Covid-19 cases up 620 to 54,290; reports 10 more deaths

Rajasthan has reported 620 new Covid-19 cases till 10:30 am on Tuesday, pushing the state's Covid-19 tally to 54,290 cases

Covid-19: 'Focused testing' strategy paying dividends, says AP CM

A "focused testing" strategy to detect Covid-19 cases early was paying dividends as Andhra Pradesh succeeded in keeping the peak positivity rate below 20 per cent, said CM Reddy

Covid updates: 'World's first vaccine', India single-day cases below 55,000

The WHO's chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus gave examples of New Zealand and Rwanda, as the countries had successfully stamped away the notorious virus

'Experiment on me first': Duterte accepts Russia's Covid-19 vaccine offer

Philippine president says Manila can assist Moscow in clinical trials and local production of the vaccine.

Bhutan govt imposes nationwide lockdown to curb coronavirus spread

The Bhutan government has imposed a nationwide lockdown starting from Tuesday after a locally transmitted COVID-19 case was reported.

Karnataka issues revised guidelines for home isolation of Covid-19 patients

Only those who are asymptomatic or mild symptomatic shall be allowed to be in-home care

Poet Rahat Indori admitted to hospital after testing positive for Covid-19

Renowned poet Rahat Indori on Tuesday confirmed that he has tested positive for COVID-19

Gargling with mouthwash might lower spread of coronavirus: Study

The researchers believe the study's findings might help reduce the risk of this form of transmission, and potentially help develop protocols for dental treatments

Expert committee on Covid-19 vaccine administration to meet on Wednesday

The Serum Institute of India, Pune has also been permitted for conducting Phase 2 and 3 human clinical trials of the Oxford University-developed Covid-19 vaccine

Single-day Covid-19 cases dip below 55,000, recovery rate rises to 69.80%

The case fatality rate dropped below 2 per cent and was recorded at 1.99 per cent as on date

Over 97,000 kids in US tested positive for Covid-19 in last 2 weeks of July

While children represented only 8.8 per cent of all cases in states reporting cases by age, over 338,000 kids have tested positive for COVID-19 since the onset of the pandemic

Yogi Adityanath sends additional officers to coronavirus-prone districts

Yogi Adityanath has sent two special secretary-level officials to assist the District Magistrates in controlling coronavirus in Kanpur and Lucknow

Punjab ramps up viral testing of coronavirus to 20,000 tests per day

Countering the surge in Covid-19 cases upfront, Punjab government has upgraded the viral testing of infection in the state to 20,000 tests per day

Coronavirus: Flights suspended from six cities to Kolkata till August 31

According to the Union Health Ministry, West Bengal has so far recorded 26,375 number of Covid-19 cases

Coronavirus LIVE: Tamil Nadu tally breaches 300,000, toll surges past 5,000

Coronavirus latest news: Globally, the cases of the deadly infection rose to 20,071,857, with the figure crossing 5.2 million in the United States alone. Stay tuned for coronavirus LIVE updates