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India coronavirus dispatch: Patients coming in with cardiac, gastro issues

India may have had community transmission in April, AIIMS starts tele-consultation, and what trials on plasma therapy are underway? - a roundup of news on how India is dealing with the pandemic

Enhancing global cooperation needed to effectively tackle Covid-19: Prez

Asserting that India was at the forefront of the ongoing international efforts to defeat coronavirus, Prez Kovind said enhancing global cooperation to effectively tackle pandemic was need of the hour

ADB raises $4 billion via bonds to help nations fight coronavirus

Manila-based lender plans to raise around $30 billion to $35 billion from the capital markets in 2020

'Desperation science' slows the hunt for coronavirus drugs

Desperate to solve the deadly conundrum of Covid-19, the world is clamouring for fast answers and solutions from a research system not built for haste

Puducherry coronavirus update: Hghest surge of 112 Covid-19 cases

Puducherry registered its highest ever single day spurt of 112 COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, taking the aggregate number of those infected in the Union Territory to 1,151

Bihar govt allows home isolation for Covid-19 patients with ample space

As per the health ministry, Bihar currently has 12,570 confirmed cases

Covid-19: Jair Bolsonaro tests positive; India adds 22,752 cases in a day

Washington has formally begun the process of leaving the World Health Organisation

India may see 287,000 Covid-19 cases a day by winter 2021: MIT study

In absence of Covid-19 vaccine or drugs, researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology have warned that India might record 287,000 coronavirus cases per day by the end of winter 2021

Delhi coronavirus update: Kejriwal seeks report from health secy on deaths

Arvind Kejriwal has sought a detailed analytical report from the Delhi government's health secretary on factors responsible for Covid-19 deaths in the city in the last fortnight, officials said

Maharashtra coronavirus update: Nine more die in Nashik, 133 test positive

Maharashtra's Nashik district registered nine more coronavirus deaths, taking the toll near the 300-mark on Tuesday, while the case count increased to 5,796 after 133 persons tested positive

Telangana coronavirus update: 1,879 new cases push tally to over 27,000

The spike in the number of Covid-19 cases continued in Telangana with 1,879 new infections pushing the states tally to over 27,000

West Bengal update: State records highest single-day deaths of 25 patients

West Bengal reported its highest single-day Covid-19 deaths on Tuesday with 25 patients succumbing to the disease, the state health department bulletin said.

Covid-19 update: 33 containment zones in Kolkata, 219 in North 24 Parganas

Kolkata city has 33 containment zones, while in neighbouring South 24 Parganas and North 24 Parganas districts of West Bengal, there are 155 and 219 such zones, respectively

Assam coronavirus update: Death toll at 16, total cases jump to 13,336

Assam reported two Covid-19 deaths on Tuesday, taking the toll to 16, while 814 new positive cases pushed the state's tally to 13,336, Minister for Health and Family Welfare Himanta Biswa Sarma said.

Coronavirus LIVE: WHO says peak yet to come; Europe deaths top 200,000

Coronavirus latest news: US has a tally of 3,041,035 Covid-19 cases and 132,981 deaths, Brazil has 1,626,071 cases, and India 723,185 cases and 20,184 deaths. Stay tuned for coronavirus LIVE updates

Telangana coronavirus update: State reports 1,879 new cases, 7 deaths

As many as 1,879 new coronavirus cases and 7 deaths were reported in Telangana on Tuesday, according to the Director of Public Health and Family Welfare

Covid-19 Factoid: Delhi has reported fall in new cases for 4 days running

The capital city has more than 100,000 cases, but its recovery rate has gone past 70 per cent now

Debate on drug to treat Covid-19 politicised; India uses it: White House

The idea that hydroxychloroquine is a dangerous drug is 'just silly', says Peter Navarro, White House Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy Director.

Pune coronavirus update: 1,134 new Covid-19 cases, 29 deaths reported

As many as 1,134 new Covid-19 cases and 29 deaths were reported in last 24 hours in the Pune

Covid-19 crisis: WHO acknowledges 'emerging evidence' of airborne spread

A comprehensive package of intervention is required to stop transmission (of the virus)," said Benedetta Allegranzi, technical lead, WHO infection prevention and control hub and task force