Tag: Coronavirus Infection

Agartala/Guwahati: In the first reported death due to coronavirus infection from northeast India, a 22-year-old youth from Tripura died in a Malaysian hospital after he was reportedly infected by the dreaded virus, family sources said on Thursday. However, Tripura Health and Family Welfare Director Radha Debbarma said the government has no information about the youth’s […]

New Delhi: Air India moved into action to evacuate Indian nationals stranded in China due to novel coronavirus. An Air India 423-seater jumbo B747 plane left for Wuhan from the Delhi airport on Friday afternoon. Government officials said the plane, with five doctors belonging to the Health Ministry, is on its way to evacuate an […]

New Delhi/Beijing: India’s evacuation of its nationals who were stranded in China’s Wuhan, the epicentre of novel coronavirus epidemic, was completed on Sunday with around 650 people brought back in two phases. Official sources said as of now the evacuation process is “complete” even as six Indians down with fever and other flu-like symptoms could […]

New Delhi: The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Thursday said all evacuees from Wuhan, China, have tested negative for novel coronavirus. “All 645 evacuees from Wuhan have tested negative,” said the Health Ministry in a statement released on Thursday. In addition, 510 samples have been tested by ICMR (Indian Council of Medical […]

Beijing: China on Sunday reported 27 new deaths from coronavirus, the lowest number of fatalities in more than a month, taking the death toll to 3,097, while the COVID-19 infections for the first time fell below 50 since the disease surfaced in Hubei province in January. All the 27 deaths occurred in the virus-hit central […]

Agra: Agra district authorities have managed to trace back a suspected case of coronavirus who fled from her Bengaluru home. The 25-year-old woman from Bengaluru was traced at her home in railway colony here on Friday. Her father had told health officials that she had taken a train to New Delhi. Her disappearance caused panic, […]

Beijing: Amid the novel coronavirus scare around the globe, some good news has emerged about the COVID-19. Chinese researchers have revealed that viral infection is not transmittable from pregnant mothers to newborns at birth. The study, published in the journal Frontiers in Pediatrics, is the second out of China within the last month to confirm […]

Mumbai: Baby Doll fame Kanika Kapoor has tested positive for novel coronavirus, becoming the first Bollywood celebrity in the country to be infected by the disease. The singer’s throat and nasal swab samples were reportedly collected at the Microbiology lab of a city hospital in Lucknow. Reports claimed that the singer landed in Lucknow from […]

Hyderabad: India’s premier research and development organisation DRDO have developed a special bodysuit that can protect the doctors as well as other health workers from Coronavirus infection (COVID-19). The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) said the bodysuit can shield doctors, medical staff, sanitation workers and others. According to a DRDO statement, the bodysuit developed […]

London: Clinician-scientists have found that Irish patients admitted to hospital with severe coronavirus (COVID-19) infection are experiencing abnormal blood clotting that contributes to death in some patients. The research team from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland found that abnormal blood clotting occurs in Irish patients with severe COVID-19 infection, causing micro-clots within the […]

New York: Loss of taste or smell is now among the new coronavirus symptoms that the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has added to its official list and now, a new study says that loss of the sense of smell is most likely to occur by the third day of infection with […]

Bhubaneswar: After recording highest single-day spike in COVID-19 cases, Odisha on Monday saw 119 persons recuperating from coronavirus infection, taking the total recoveries to 1245. As per Health and Family Welfare Department, a highest of 60 persons recovered from Jajpur district, 13 from Cuttack, 12 from Kendrapara, nine from Gajapati, six from Nayagarh, five from […]

New Delhi: Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain, battling the coronavirus infection, was moved to the ICU of the private Max Hospital from a city government-run facility after his condition deteriorated on Friday, sources said. The sources indicated that the 55-year-old minister is likely to undergo plasma therapy though there was no official confirmation. Doctors at […]

New York: A team of US scientists, led by an Indian-origin researcher has found that infants under 90 days of age who tested positive for COVID-19 tend to be well, with little or no respiratory involvement. The fever was often found to be the primary or only symptom, said the study, published in the ‘Journal […]

Bhubaneswar: The COVID-19 graph in Odisha got even steeper after over 500 positive cases were reported in the last 24 hours. With 561 cases today, Odisha witnessed its highest single-day spike. What is more surprising is the fact that there has also been a rise in COVID-19 infection within several important healthcare institutions in the […]