Page 18 - Latest Updates on Covid-19

World Coronavirus Dispatch: Infection spike in Asia spurs warnings

China orders regular tests at wholesale markets, J&J vaccine results on monkeys, Can coronavirus spread through air, and other pandemic-related news across the globe

Coronavirus death toll in the US surpasses 150,000-mark: Johns Hopkins

California on Wednesday reported 197 Covid-related deaths in a single day

India Coronavirus Dispatch: Why you should shun so-called immunity boosters

Cases in West Bengal cross 65,000, few sanitation workers getting training, info on health checkups, and making sense of sero-survey results-news on how India is dealing with the pandemic

Covid-19: Indian Red Cross Society to buy 180,000 face masks from KVIC

The execution of this order will require over 20,000 meters of fabric which will generate 9,000 additional man-days

India's FMCG sector to see flat growth in 2020 due to Covid-19: Nielsen

Though the FMCG industry has shown some sign of improvements in June, but in the first half of the year the industry growth slipped to negative with 6% decline

Housing sales reviving, end-user demand may strengthen: Mahindra Lifespace

Housing sales as well as enquiries from prospective homebuyers, which were badly hit during April-June due to the COVID-19 pandemic, have started to revive gradually and end-user demand is likely to strengthen in coming months, a top official of Mahindra Lifespace said on Thursday. In an interview with PTI, Mahindra Lifespace Developers MD & CEO Arvind Subramanian said the company did not witness much cancellation of apartments booked by customers as widely feared after the outbreak of COVID-19 and subsequent lockdown. "Just like the economy, businesses were severely challenged in the first quarter of this fiscal year. There was almost a standstill in housing sales and construction activities," he said. However, Subramanian said, "The good news is that our existing customers are committed to their bookings. We are not seeing a large cancellation which could have been one of the outcomes." He said the sales bookings and enquiries from customers in July increased as compared to the .

As vacationers throw caution to the wind, France sees new wave of Covid-19

Among the nightspots where now-infected people congregated, is one that skirted a national coronavirus ban on nightclubbing by converting itself into a late-night watering hole

1 million Covid-19 tests per day in India in next two months: Harsh Vardhan

Vardhan asserted that while global efforts are on to find a vaccine against the novel coronavirus, India is not behind

AstraZeneca betters estimates amid strong sales, Covid-19 vaccine hopes

The company reiterated that it was on track with late-stage trials for its coronavirus vaccine, which could be rolled out by the year-end

Germany's Covid-induced Q2 GDP plunge wiped off 10 years of growth: Report

The GDP index adjusted for inflation, seasonally and calendar effects decreased to 94.26 in the second quarter

Covid-19 updates: Unlock 3.0 guidelines, 105-year-old recovers, and more

According to the ICMR, a cumulative total of 1,81,90,382 samples have been tested up to July 29 with 4,46,642 samples being tested on Wednesday

Puducherry coronavirus update: 122 new Covid-19 cases, 1 more death reported

A 51-year-old man succumbed to Covid-19 in Puducherry, while 122 fresh cases were reported on Thursday, taking the total infection count in the Union territory to 3,293

China coronavirus update: Over 100 new cases reported for 2nd straight day

China has seen more than 100 new cases being reported for a second consecutive day, belying the hopes that the country managed to contain the deadly contagion

Brazil coronavirus update: Covid-19 death toll goes past 90,000 mark

Brazil's novel coronavirus outbreak has marked another grim milestones, with the death toll surpassing 90,000, and the number of people testing positive going over 2.5 million

US coronavirus update: Death toll from the Covid-19 exceeds 150,000

The death toll from the coronavirus in the US hit 150,000, by far the highest in the world, according to the tally kept by Johns Hopkins University

Agra coronavirus update: 29 new cases take city's corona tally to 1,730

The spurt in fresh cases in the past two weeks continues to worry the district health task force battling Covid-19 in the Taj city

Mizoram coronavirus update: State's Covid-19 tally reaches 398

The total number of Covid-19-positive cases in Mizoram is 398 on Thursday, the Department of Information and Public Relations of Mizoram government informed

Manipur coronavirus update: Toll mounts to 2 as 48-yr-old man dies of Covid

Manipur registered its second Covid-19 death on Thursday as a 48-year-old patient succumbed to the infection at a state-run hospital

Pakistan coronavirus update: Tally reaches 277,402 with 1,114 new cases

Pakistan's coronavirus tally reached 277,402 with the detection of 1,114 new cases in the last 24 hours

Odisha coronavirus update: Covid deaths touch 169, cases cross 30,000 mark

The Covid-19 death toll in Odisha rose to 169 as 10 more people succumbed to the virus in the last 24 hours