Coronavirus India lockdown Day 74 live updates | India now has the sixth highest number of cases in the world
As parts of the economy opens up, a question mark remains over the future of India's education system. India has…
No new schemes for a year, says finance ministry amid rise in Covid-19 cases
Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman (File photo)NEW DELHI: The finance ministry has asked all ministries and departments not to initiate…
At 14,500, Delhi is now second only to Maharashtra in terms of active Covid-19 cases
NEW DELHI: After Maharashtra, Delhi has maximum active cases of Covid-19. According to the data shared by states, while Maharashtra…
Coronavirus live updates: India’s Covid-19 tally rises to 2,26,770 cases, death toll over 6,300
TIMES OF INDIATHE TIMES OF INDIA | Jun 05, 2020, 13:20:06 ISTIndia reported 9,851 new Covid-19 cases and 273 deaths…
Coronavirus live updates: Delhi has highest active cases after Maharashtra
TIMES OF INDIATHE TIMES OF INDIA | Jun 05, 2020, 05:52:16 ISTNew Covid-19 cases in India crossed 9,000 for the…
Data | Major uptick in COVID-19 cases in the past week and it’s not just the usual suspects
A health worker collecting a sample for COVID-19 testing, in Bengaluru. File | Photo Credit: K. MURALI KUMAR States such…
Coronavirus | India closes in on Italy, U.K. and Spain on number of confirmed cases
India on June 3 registered a massive spike of 9,577 new COVID-19 cases and 253 fatalities, according to data from…
Coronavirus live updates: Record single-day spike of 8,909 Covid-19 cases in India
TIMES OF INDIATHE TIMES OF INDIA | Jun 03, 2020, 16:06:28 ISTThe nationwide tally of confirmed Covid-19 cases crossed the…
Coronavirus India lockdown Day 71 live updates | Highest spike of 1,298 COVID cases takes tally to over 22K in Delhi
Escalating coronavirus cases, threat of Cyclone Nisarga — there is no dearth of crises in Maharashtra, which accounts for 35%…
Coronavirus live updates: India reports 8,171 new Covid cases and 204 deaths in last 24 hours
TIMES OF INDIATHE TIMES OF INDIA | Jun 02, 2020, 10:14:54 ISTThe death toll due to Covid-19 rose to 5,598…
Covid-19: Fatality rate dips amid rising cases and deaths
NEW DELHI: With a larger proportion of Covid-19 patients getting cured, the case fatality rate, or the percentage of deaths…
Coronavirus | Nearly 2 lakh COVID-19 cases in India
Medical staff seen guiding the patients outside the Special Covid Ward at the LNJP hospital, which is treating most of…
Delhi’s borders to be sealed for a week due to rising coronavirus cases: Kejriwal
A scene at Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border near Ghazipur on March 26, 2020. | Photo Credit: Sandeep Saxena The decision to…
Covid-19: 8,000+ fresh cases in a day, toll crosses 5,000
NEW DELHI: India’s Covid-19 caseload went past 1.75 lakh on Saturday, three days after crossing the 1.5 lakh milestone, as…
Coronavirus India lockdown Day 67 live updates | Over 7,500 cases in 24 hours
India registered its highest single-day increase in new COVID-19 cases with 7,964 cases and 265 deaths reported in the past…
Saturated hospitals, airlifts as California border region virus cases surge
MEXICALI, Mexico/EL CENTRO, Calif., (Reuters) - Coronavirus cases are surging in a scorching hot desert region straddling south California and…
India registers biggest single-day spike of 7,466 Covid-19 cases
File imageNEW DELHI: The death toll due to Covid-19 rose to 4,706 in the country, while the number of cases…
Coronavirus live updates: India now No. 9 among Covid-hit nations as cases cross 1.6 lakh
India’s Covid-19 count crossed the 1.6 lakh mark, with fresh cases surging to another s
Coronavirus live updates: Tripura reports 23 new Covid-19 positive cases
TIMES OF INDIATHE TIMES OF INDIA | May 27, 2020, 05:08:04 ISTTotal number of cases in India crossed 1.45 lakh.…
India’s Covid count set to cross 1.5 lakh, fresh cases dip to 5.5k
NEW DELHI: India’s count of Covid-19 cases was set to cross the 1.5 lakh mark, even as the number of…
China’s Hong Kong law set to bar foreign judges from national security cases: sources
BEIJING (Reuters) - Beijing’s planned national security legislation for Hong Kong is set to block its foreign judges from handling…
ICMR sits on proposal to try Rs 5 arthritis drug in Covid cases
Representative imageCHENNAI: The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) is sitting on a proposal for a clinical trial of an…
Batting for free speech: On filing of disparagement cases against press
May 26, 2020 00:02 IST Updated: May 26, 2020 00:40 IST May 26, 2020 00:02 IST Updated: May 26, 2020…
US bans entry from Brazil over Covid-19 fears, despite having four times as many cases amid partying Americans
In this May 23, 2020 file photo people gather on the beach for the Memorial Day weekend in Port Aransas,…
China decides to evacuate citizens from India amid rise in coronavirus cases
NEW DELHI: China has decided to evacuate its citizens, including students, tourists and businessmen, from India who are facing "difficulties"…
India now No. 10 among Covid-hit nations; 6,500+ cases on Sunday
NEW DELHI: As the country's Covid-19 count continued to surge, India overtook Iran on Sunday in total recorded cases of…
COVID-19 cases: India now in top 10
India on Sunday reported the highest single-day spike so far of 7,097 COVID-19 cases, taking the overall tally to 1,38,526,…
Tape 6,767 new COVID-19 cases in last 24 hr, says Health Ministry
India must gear for at least two more months of COVID-19, a summary of a meeting on Saturday involving top…
Covid-19: New cases rise to 6,378; day’s toll 144
NEW DELHI: India reported 6,378 new Covid-19 infections on Saturday, the highest single-day jump in cases so far. This was…
Coronavirus live updates: India’s count nears 1.3 L, fifth day-to-day cases record in as many days
11 areas with 70% of cases asked to scale up Covid fightThe 11 areas with high caseload are in seven…
South America a brand-new COVID center, Africa reaches 100,000 cases
Gravediggers wearing protective suits prepare to bury the coffin of a person who died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) during…
WHO tape-records greatest everyday variety of COVID-19 cases
The World Health Organization said Wednesday it had registered a new daily record number of COVID-19 cases as it quickly…
Brazil coronavirus break out worsens as country could quickly be No. 2 in cases
RIO DE JANEIRO/SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil’s coronavirus outbreak worsened on Wednesday and the South American nation could soon have…
Coronavirus | India says its recovery rate is 40% while recording new daily high in number of cases
After a gap of nine days, the Union Health Ministry held its daily press briefing on COVID-19 on May 20,…
Devices used for screening drug-resistant TB can be now used for confirmation of COVID-19 cases
According to the guidelines, all samples of suspect COVID-19 should be first tested by the E gene screening assay. Diagnostic…
In biggest single day spike, India records over 5,200 Covid cases
NEW DELHI: A day after India’s Covid-19 count crossed the 1 lakh mark, more than 5,200 fresh cases were reported…
Coronavirus India lockdown Day 56 live updates | Positive cases cross 1 lakh
India’s tally of COVID-19 cases crossed the one lakh mark on Monday, with 5,079 new cases taking the total to…
Covid-19: For first time, new cases top 5,000; deaths up by 154
NEW DELHI: Covid-19 infections continued to surge in the country on the last day of lockdown 3.0, with the number…
Coronavirus | India records over 5,000 cases on May 17
Maharashtra registered its highest single-day increase of 2,347 COVID-19 cases to take its overall tally to 33,053 and 1,198 deaths.…
Coronavirus | Surge disproves NITI Aayog’s ‘zero cases by May 16’ prediction
The number of COVID-19 positive cases in India nearing the six-digit mark has disproved an assessment by V.K. Paul, NITI…
Brazil passes Italy and Spain in confirmed coronavirus cases
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil’s confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus rose on Saturday past those of Spain and Italy, which…
Coronavirus count tops 75,000; 2nd biggest jump in new cases, deaths
NEW DELHI: India on Wednesday became the 12th nation to register over 75,000 Covid-19 cases, crossing the milestone on a…
No new Covid-19 cases in 9 states, UTs in last 24 hrs; rate of doubling of cases 12.6 days: Vardhan
Union health minister Harsh Vardhan (ANI photo)NEW DELHI: Nine states and union territories have not reported any new Covid-19 patients…
Coronavirus: A first, 4,000+ cases in a day
NEW DELHI: India recorded its highest single-day jump in Covid-19 cases with the number crossing 4,000 for the first time,…
No plans to separate Trump, Pence despite White House coronavirus cases: source
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration has no plans to keep President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence apart,…
South Korea’s Moon warns of COVID-19 second wave as cases rebound
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea warned of a second wave of the new coronavirus on Sunday as infections rebounded to…
Hyderabad: Birthday party trigger for 45 coronavirus cases in LB Nagar
HYDERABAD: A birthday party thrown by a shop owner was the trigger for 45 Covid-19 positive cases and 15 new…
Coronavirus India lockdown Day 46 live updates | 216 districts with no reported cases till date, says Health Ministry
As Gujarat continues to report large number of coronavirus cases, medical experts from AIIMS, including its Director, have rushed to…
Coronavirus | 216 districts record no cases till date; recovery rate hits 29.36%
With a recovery rate now standing at 29.36 %, India on Friday registered 3,390 new COVID-19 positive cases with 103…
7 zones in Chennai represent most cases
Chennai Corporation special nodal officer J.Radhakrishnan inspecting a containment zone in Adyar on Thursday. 96 infected on one street in…