With widespread testing, contact tracing and population behavioural changes Hong Kong appears to have managed to contain the first wave of COVID-19 without resorting to drastic measures like complete lockdown which now threaten to damage economies of several countries around the world, say scientists in a Lancet study....
Coronavirus cases in Bihar rose to 85 on Saturday, with Begusarai and Nalanda reporting fresh cases. ...
Karnataka registered 12 new Covid positive cases in the past 19 hours, comprising a teenager boy among 11 male patients, raising the state's tally to 371, an official said on Saturday. Discharges rose by four in the past 19 hours from 88 to 92....
Kerala Health Minister K.K.Shailaja on Saturday stated that the death of a 85-year-old man, who was a former Covid-19 patient from Malappuram, is not due to the coronavirus but due to a renal complication he developed....
With the surge in COVID-19 cases continuing in Telangana and Hyderabad and seven other districts being the hotspots, the state is not likely to go for any relaxations in the ongoing lockdown despite the guidelines issued by the Centre to open up come sectors from April 20....
Extensive parts of north and some localities in central Kolkata including a number of slums have been sealed by the police with the areas reporting a number of Corona virus cases....
In a shocker, at least 21 serving Indian Navy personnel have tested positive for COVID -19, all within the naval premises at Mumbai, officials said here in Saturday. ...
Iranian authorities have said that they were closer to the contain the COVID-19 pandemic in most of the country, while, Turkey was poised to overtake Iran as the hardest-hit country in the Middle East due to rapid growth of new cases....
A total of 3,35,123 samples, taken from 3,18,449 individuals, were tested for coronavirus till Friday evening, said the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)....
The West Bengal government on Friday shunted out Ajeet Singh Yadav from the post of Murshidabad police superintendent, a week after a controversy erupted over a 1,000-strong gathering during Friday prayers at a mosque in defiance of the ongoing COVID-19 lockdown. ...
