A 65-year-old man from Karnataka's Chikkaballapura succumbed to COVID-19 even as 17 new patients tested positive, raising the state's tally to 277, an official said on Wednesday....
Leader of opposition Ramesh Chennithala, on Wednesday, asked Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan to break his silence and come clean on the handing over of data of Covid-19 suspects to US-based PR and marketing firm Sprinklr....
Former Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday urged the Union Government to bring back the workers stranded in the Middle East where they are left out of work. He said thousands of Indian workers are in deep distress and desperate to return home and the government should bring them back and put in mandatory quarantine....
Economist turned Kerala Finance Minister Thomas Issac reacting to the new relaxations of the lockdown norms, said on Wednesday that coronavirus is now a reality and life must go on....
The Madhya Pradesh government is worried about the rising number of novel coronavirus patients in Indore, which on Wednesday reported 117 more positive cases, taking the total count of such cases to 544 here....
With increased and intensified surveillance and testing for coronavirus infections at the hotspots in Gujarat, health authorities said 56 new positive cases were detected in the last 12 hours in the state, including Ahmedabad's 42 cases. Gujarat till now has reported 695 positive cases and 30 deaths....
Billed as the 'mother of all festivals' in Kerala -- the Thrissur Pooram -- has been cancelled for the first time on account of the Covid-19 outbreak, said a State Minister on Wednesday. ...
The number of COVID-19 cases in the United States topped 600,000, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University....
The death toll from COVID-19 in New York City (NYC) increased by some 3,700 to exceed 10,000 after including those who presumably died of the disease but never got tested for the coronavirus, according to the US media reports....
A total of 15,729 patients have succumbed to the COVID-19, including 10,129 died in hospitals and 5,600 in nursing homes, French General Director for Health Jerome Salomon said. ...