NEW DELHI: India’s COVID-19 tally breached the three-lakh mark on Saturday with a record single-day spike of 11,458 infections, while the death toll rose to 8,884 with 386 new fatalities, the Union Health Ministry said. With a COVID-19 caseload of 3,08,993, India is now the fourth worst-hit nation by the pandemic, according to the Worldometer, […]
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday reviewed the country’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic with senior ministers and top bureaucrats. He took stock of the pandemic situation in different states and union territories, including Delhi, the Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement. During the meet, it was observed that two-thirds of India’s […]
NEW DELHI: The Union Health Ministry has recommended use of anti-viral drug remdesivir under emergency use authorization, off-label application of immunomodulator tocilizumab and convalescent plasma therapy for treating COVID-19 patients in moderate stage of criticality. Backtracking from its earlier stance, the ministry in its revised ‘Clinical Management Protocols for COVID-19’, released on Saturday, said anti-malarial […]
JAIPUR: The six-year BJP rule has been of “mismanagement, immense despair and agony” and the country today stands at a stage where the common people are suffering from the wounds inflicted by the government, Congress’s chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said on Saturday. Addressing Congress MLAs and legislators supporting the partyled government in Rajasthan at a […]
NEW DELHI: Amid a surge in coronavirus cases during the ‘Unlock 1’ phase, the Union Health Ministry on Friday issued guidelines on “COVID-appropriate behaviour” to be followed at restaurants, hotels, religious places, shopping malls and offices in a pictorial format to emphasise on precautions such as staggering of visitors and allowing only asymptomatic people in […]
NEW DELHI : The Supreme Court Friday termed as “horrific” the state of affairs in Delhi hospitals with bodies of the dead being stacked next to COVID-19 patients, and sought responses from the Centre and different states on its plea taking suo motu (on its own) cognisance on the treatment being meted out to patients […]
NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday said the DNA of openness and tolerance that India and the US were known for has “disappeared”, and those creating divisions and weakening their country are now claiming to be nationalists. He also attacked the current dispensation saying an “atmosphere of fear” is prevailing in India with […]
Patna/Kathmandu: The Nepalese border guarding force on Friday opened fire on a crowd killing a 22-year-old Indian man and injuring two others following an altercation, sparking tension on the Indo-Nepal Border along Bihar’s Sitamarhi district. The border guarding force – Nepalese Armed Police Force – has also detained a person identified as 45-year-old Lagan Yadav […]
NEW DELHI: The government is mulling to include sudden loss of taste and smell as a criteria for COVID-19 testing, sources said on Friday as India witnessed a surge in coronavirus instances with total caseload racing towards the three lakh mark. The issue was discussed in a meeting of the National Task Force on COVID-19 […]
NEW DELHI: The death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 8,102 and the number of cases climbed to 2,86,579 in the country after it registered the highest single-day spike of 357 fatalities and 9,996 cases till Thursday 8am, according to the Union health ministry data. The number of recoveries remained more than the active novel […]