Tag: Coronavirus Outbreak

New Delhi: Death toll due to coronavirus across the globe crossed 5,000 mark today. As per data released by worldometers.info, total number of deaths across the world were recorded to be 5,082 out of 138,275 total cases. While, a total of 3,177 deaths have been recorded in China, Italy recorded 1,016 deaths. The first coronavirus […]

Mumbai/Chandigarh: Maharashtra government on Friday ordered closure of cinema theaters, gymnasiums, swimming pools and public parks in cities of Mumbai, Thane, Navi Mumbai, Nagpur, Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad till March 30 after the State reported 17 confirmed coronavirus patients. The closure order will come into effect from Friday midnight, Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray said, announcing that […]

Mumbai: Megastar Amitabh Bachchan has written a poem to warn his fans against coronavirus, saying washing hands was the way to beat the spread of the disease. Bachchan chose his mother tongue, the Awadhi dialect, to recite the poem on social media. “There are many discussions on coronavirus around us. It has done a lot […]

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 […]

New Delhi: The government on Friday declared face masks and hand sanitizers as essential commodities for the next 100 days as it stepped up efforts to boost supply and prevent hoarding of these items in its fight to check spread of coronavirus disease. The Centre has also invoked Disaster Management Act to ensure price regulation […]

New York: US President Donald Trump has declared a state of emergency over the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in order to make more funds available for fighting the fallout of the disease while reflecting symbolically the seriousness of the situation. Trump said on Friday that upto $50 billion will be available to states and territories to […]

Hyderabad: A software engineer, who was tested positive for COVID-19 early this month, was discharged from government-run Gandhi Hospital on Friday. Doctors said the 24-year-old was allowed to go home as he had fully recovered. However, he has been advised for strict home isolation for two weeks. The techie, the lone COVID-19 positive case from […]

New Delhi: Europe is now the “epicentre” of the global coronavirus pandemic, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday. His comments came as several countries in Europe reported steep rises in the number of infections and deaths. Spain is now the worst affected after Italy. On Friday, Spain […]

Gold Coast: Hollywood actor Tom Hanks has shared his first coronavirus update along with a photograph that features him in quarantine with his wife, Rita Wilson. With the photograph, which Hanks posted on Twitter as well as Instagram, he also wrote a long caption note thanking everyone Down Under who was taking care of the […]

Mumbai: Many makers of several high-profile films have rescheduled release dates of their respective movies in the wake of coronavirus outbreak. Among them are Ranveer Singh’s ‘Jayeshbhai Jordaar’, Farhan Akhtar’s ‘Toofaan’ and Vicky Kausal-starrer ‘Sardar Udham Singh’. “Jayeshbhai Jordaar” is now slated to release on October 2, which was the initial release date of “Toofaan”. […]

New York: US President Donald Trump has tested negative for COVID-19, according to his doctor Sean Conley. “Last night after an in-depth discussion with the president about Covid-19 testing he elected to proceed,” Conley said in a memorandum released through Trump’s Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham on Saturday evening. “This evening I received confirmation that the […]

Sydney: The remaining two ODIs of the ongoing Chappell-Hadlee Series between Australia and New Zealand has been postponed amid growing concerns surrounding the coronavirus threat. The first ODI of the three-match series was played behind closed doors in an empty Sydney Cricket Ground on Friday which the hosts had won by 71 runs. The teams […]

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, […]

Nabarangpur: Despite rigorous mass awareness by the government to prevent & dispel hoax and misinformation on Coronavirus infection, a newly-wed woman from Umerkote area today alleged that her in-laws tortured and ostracized her on suspicion of being infected by the deadly virus. According to sources, one Puja Sarkar of Murtuma village had married to Jayant […]

New Delhi: People lined up for their share of the “miracle liquid” being poured from kettles into ‘kulhads’, believing that it will protect them from coronavirus or cure them in case they have already been infected. It was not a medicine or herbal concoction being served in the clay cups but cow urine. After consuming […]