Current smokers and people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) have an increased risk of severe complications and higher mortality with COVID-19 infection, warn researchers. ...
Five new cases took the number of active Covid-19 cases in Kerala to 32 on Tuesday. Of the new cases, four had came from abroad and one from Chennai, said Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, here on Tuesday....
Almost 48 days after suspension of all passenger train services amid the coronavirus pandemic, the first special air conditioned train for Bilaspur departed from here at 4 p.m. with 1,177 passengers....
The Vice President first of all has been tested and he's negative and he was tested yesterday, tested today and he is negative," Xinhua news agency quoted Trump as saying at a White House press conference on Monday....
Indian fugitive diamantaire Nirav Modi used 13 companies in the UAE and six in Hong Kong for the purpose of round tripping money, the prosecution told a London court on the first day of the five-day trial on his extradition....
A total of 2,107 anti-Semitic incidents were reported in the US in 2019, hitting the highest annual tally in over four decades, a New York City-based Jewish civil rights group reported on Tuesday. ...
Wuhan, the capital of China's Hubei province where the COVID-19 pandemic emerged last December, was drawing up plans to test the city's entire population of 11 million people for the deadly disease, state media reported on Tuesday....
Researchers, including one of Indian-origin, have revealed that children, teenagers and young adults are at greater risk for severe complications from COVID-19 and those with underlying health conditions are at even greater risk of death....
The number of coronavirus cases in Russia has increased to 232,243 on Tuesday, the 2nd highest number of infections in the world surpassing the tallies in Spain and the UK, the country's anti-coronavirus crisis centre said....
The Congress has asked the Prime Minister to meet the Chief Ministers on a regular basis to strengthen the federal structure of the country, said party Treasurer and close Sonia Gandhi aide Ahmed Patel, adding this system should continue after the pandemic....