Stop using rapid test kits for 2 days: ICMR
22 April 2020 12:51 AM ISTNew Delhi: At a time when almost 1,000 positive cases of COVID-19 are reported every day in the country, the faulty Chinese rapid testing kits...
Maharashtra's IPS officer uses geo-fencing to make Osmanabad Corona-free district
22 April 2020 12:29 AM ISTNew Delhi: When Maharashtra is hitting the headlines for all wrong reasons, including maximum number of COVID-19 positive cases, the Osmanabad...
Govt decision to review spread of virus in 11 distts under scanner
21 April 2020 12:02 AM ISTNew Delhi: The Centre's decision to identify only 11 districts for fast-tracking COVID-19 management strategies has come under the scanner as the...
Isolate Corona positive cases from non-COVID centres: Health Ministry
20 April 2020 11:57 PM ISTNew Delhi: Taking note of incidents of hospitals having closed down after healthcare workers contracting coronavirus, the Ministry of Health and...
Scientists banking upon drugs for SARS-CoV as COVID-19 remedy
20 April 2020 12:31 AM ISTNew Delhi: As scientists' community across the world are still clueless about the possible treatment procedure for the life-taking coronavirus, a...
252 recoveries in last 24 hrs, India's highest ever
17 April 2020 11:47 PM ISTNew Delhi: Even though the death tally of COVID-19 patients rose to 452 on Friday, the experts have claimed that the death rate would not increase...
'Hong Kong contained COVID-19 spread sans lockdown'
17 April 2020 11:46 PM ISTNew Delhi: A lesson that many states in India can learn from the experiences of countries like Hong Kong, Taiwan, etc that contained the spread of the...
Lockdown impact: Recovery rate rises to 11% from 8% in last 22 days
16 April 2020 1:00 AM ISTNew Delhi: At a time when confirmed cases of Coronavirus have climbed to 11,933, the good news is that containment and management strategies of the...
170 districts declared as hotspots: Centre
16 April 2020 12:41 AM ISTNew Delhi: With India entering the 22nd day of a nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Union Health ministry, in its...
ICMR claims 'enough' testing kits; figures tell different tale
15 April 2020 12:34 AM ISTNew Delhi: If we go by the words of Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) officials, there are enough testing kits available in the country and it...
Foot-operated handwashing units in slums as positive cases rise to 55 in Dharavi
14 April 2020 11:09 PM ISTNew Delhi: As COVID-19 cases in India's largest slum Dharavi climbed to 55, including 7 deaths, the Centre on Tuesday released a guideline for...
No new COVID-19 cases from 25 districts in 15 states in last 14 days
14 April 2020 12:14 AM ISTNew Delhi: Even as the number of COVID-19 cases continues to surge in India, there seems to be a silver lining coming our way. At least 25 districts...
