Tag: Coronavirus Death Toll

Titlagarh: A couple who arrived in Titlagarh in Bolangir district from Canada has been kept under isolation at the Bhima Bhoi Medical College and Hospital for Coronavirus testing. According to sources, the couple arrived at Titlagarh from Canada to attend the last rites of one of their relatives. Based on the fact that Canada has […]

New Delhi: India reported its second death due to coronavirus on Friday as a 68-year-old woman from west Delhi who had tested positive for COVID-19 died at a hospital here, the Union Ministry for Health and Family Welfare said on Friday. According to the ministry, the deceased woman had a history of contact with a […]

Cuttack: It is now testing times for the family members of Cuttack youth who is reportedly stranded in Iran, one of the countries worst affected by COVID-19. The youth Sayed Mufizur Rahman, who hails from Nimchouri area in Cuttack, has been in Iran since September last year. While he was reportedly engaged in MV Behdokt […]

New Delhi: The number of novel coronavirus cases in the country rose to 107 on Sunday, with 12 fresh cases in Maharashtra, the Union Health Ministry said. The number of cases include two persons who died in Delhi and Karnataka. While a 76-year-old man from Kalaburagi who had recently returned from Saudi Arabia died on […]

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Beijing: The death toll due to the COVID-19 outbreak in China has increased to 3,237, authorities said on Wednesday, while the number of confirmed cases in the Asian country has risen to 80,894. Chinese health authorities reported 11 deaths and 13 newly confirmed cases of novel coronavirus infection on the Chinese mainland on Tuesday, Xinhua […]

Bhubaneswar: Novel Coronavirus or Covid-19 has infected nearly 217 persons in India. Several State governments across the country have stepped up measures to tackle the situation arising out of the Coronavirus outbreak. In Odisha, two persons have been tested positive for Coronavirus infection while the results of four others are awaited. The State government is […]

Beijing/ Washington: China reported no domestically transmitted coronavirus cases for the third consecutive day even as seven more fatalities have been confirmed, taking the death toll in the country to 3255. No new domestically transmitted cases of COVID-19 were reported on the Chinese mainland for the third day in a row on Friday, China’s National […]

Bhubaneswar:  Amid the rising coronavirus cases in the country, a voluntary shutdown following Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s clarion call for ‘Janta Curfew’ has begun today. All the commercial and business establishments baring essential services are closed in Odisha. Extending support to the Janta curfew, all the public transport vehicles including buses, taxis, autorickhaws have also […]

Madrid: Spain on Sunday reported 394 new Covid-19-related deaths, bringing the coronavirus death toll to 1,720 and propelling it beyond Iran to the third in the list of most fatalities. The number of confirmed cases as of Saturday stood at 25,496 and had reported 324 new deaths. Only Italy (4,825) and China (3,144) have reported […]

New York: The number of coronavirus cases worldwide topped 500,000 as of Thursday noon, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University in the US. The fresh figure reached 510,108 cases with 22,993 deaths. Outside China, the countries that reported over 10,000 COVID-19 cases included Italy, the US, Spain, […]

Rome: Coronavirus-ravaged Italy on Saturday saw its death toll cross 10,000 – well over a third of the global toll which has crossed 29,000. The country saw 889 deaths in 24 hours, taking the total number of fatalities to 10,023, the BBC reported. Meanwhile, the number of coronavirus cases across the world rose to 640,589 […]

New Delhi: With fresh deaths in six states, the death toll from COVID-19 climbed to 25 and the total number of cases to 979 on Sunday, according to the Union Health Ministry. The ministry reported one death each from Delhi, Gurjarat, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra and Telengana. In its updated data at 10 a.m.,the ministry said […]

New York: More than 40,000 people have been killed in the coronavirus pandemic as the disease barrels across the globe, with the US bracing for its darkest hours after its death toll eclipsed China’s on Tuesday. In a matter of months, the virus has infected more than 800,000 people in a crisis redrawing political powers, […]

New Delhi: With India in the third week of its 21-day lockdown, the total number of confirmed cases of novel coronavirus surged to 5,194, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said on Wednesday. Of these, 4643 are active cases of COVID-19, 401 individuals have recovered and discharged from the hospital, one person migrated to […]