World Bank fast-tracks $1 billion Coronavirus support for India
Apr 03, 2020, at 09:26 am
Washington/IBNS: The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors today approved a fast-track $1 billion India COVID-19 Emergency Response and Health Systems Preparedness Project to help India prevent, detect, and respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and strengthen its public health preparedness. This is the largest ever health sector support from the Bank to India.
New video helps Asian rheumatology patients stay safe from COVID-19
Apr 02, 2020, at 08:27 pm
Birmingham (UK)/IBNS: Experts from the Universities of Birmingham and Oxford have joined the UK-based National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society (NRAS) in reaching out to Asian people living with inflammatory forms of arthritis (IA) - in particular, Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) - with information on how to keep themselves and their families safe from coronavirus.
Apr 02, 2020, at 06:14 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: According to health practitioners, people with underlying conditions are often critically vulnerable to Covid-19 attack.
Thirteen Tablighi Jamaat people quarantined in Uttar Pradesh
Apr 02, 2020, at 03:15 pm
Auraiyya/UNI: As many as 13 people of Tablighi Jamaat have been quarantined following a medical check-up in a vacant building in this district of Uttar Pradesh.
Suspected Coronavirus patient commits suicide in UP
Apr 02, 2020, at 03:14 pm
Shamli/UNI: A suspected Novel Coronavirus patient committed suicide at a hospital in this Uttar Pradesh district on Thursday.
West Bengal reports another death due to COVID-19, confusion over official toll
Apr 01, 2020, at 11:52 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: A 66-year-old man from Kolkata's Nayabad area, who had earlier tested positive for novel coronavirus and was undergoing treatment at a private health facility at Panchasayar area, died on Wednesday evening, taking the COVID-19 death toll in the state to seven, reports said. However, the state has officially confirmed only three deaths due to novel coronavirus infection so far.
Four new COVID-19 positive cases reported in Assam, total count reaches 5
Apr 01, 2020, at 04:25 pm
Guwahati/IBNS: Four more positive cases for COVID-19 have been reported in Assam on Wednesday and with this total number of Coronavirus infected cases have increased to five in the state so far.
Coronavirus cases continue to jump in India amid hunt for Delhi mosque attendees
Apr 01, 2020, at 01:57 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: India continued to witness a huge jump in positive Novel Coronavirus cases on Wednesday, the eighth day of the nationwide lockdown, while various state governments are toiling to track the attendees of a Delhi mosque event which has triggered a fear of further surge in the pandemic virus.
Assam CM Sarbananda Sonowal reviews preparedness of Covid -19 in Dhubri and Kokrajhar
Apr 01, 2020, at 12:59 pm
Guwahati/IBNS: Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Tuesday visited Dhubri district to take stock of the measures taken by the district administration and health department to prevent coronavirus outbreak in the region.
West Bengal reports sixth Covid-19 death
Apr 01, 2020, at 12:54 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: A 57-year-old man from Belgharia in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, who had earlier tested positive for novel coronavirus, died at a local private health facility on Wednesday morning, taking the Covid-19 death toll in the state to six, officials said.
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Coronavirus poses latest threat to battered health system in DR Congo
Apr 01, 2020, at 12:51 pm
New York/IBNS: The looming threat of the new coronavirus disease COVID-19 is just the latest challenge to the beleaguered health care system in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which is struggling with deadly measles and cholera epidemics that have killed thousands of children over the past year, the UN children’s fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday.
Germany registers over 4,600 new COVID-19 cases, 128 fatalities over past 24 hours
Apr 01, 2020, at 12:48 pm
Moscow/Sputnik/UNI: The number of confirmed cases of the coronavirus infection has increased by 4,615 to 61,913 in Germany while the death toll has risen by 128 to 583 in the past 24 hours, the Robert Koch Institute said on Tuesday.
New Zealand extends emergency state over COVID-19 by 7 days until April 8
Apr 01, 2020, at 12:43 pm
Wellington/Sputnik/UNI: New Zealand has extended the state of the national emergency giving the authorities extra powers to combat the spread of coronavirus by another seven days as the number of cases neared 650, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Tuesday.
Sweden to expand coronavirus testing as death toll rises to 180
Apr 01, 2020, at 12:39 pm
Stockholm/Xinhua/UNI: The number of COVID-19 fatalities continues to rise in Sweden, where the government introduced on Tuesday a ban on visits to elderly homes and vowed to expand testing.
Taiwan adds 16 more COVID-19 patients
Apr 01, 2020, at 12:35 pm
Taipei/Xinhua/UNI: The total number of novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases in Taiwan has increased by 16 to 322, the island's epidemic monitoring agency said on Tuesday.
COVID-19 expected to kill up to 200,000 in US: White House Official
Apr 01, 2020, at 12:34 pm
Washington/UNI: The US authorities forecast that the coronavirus outbreak might kill 100,000-200,000 Americans but hope the actual figure will be much lower, the White House response coordinator Deborah Birx told reporters.
Brazil's Coronavirus death toll rises by 42 to 201: Health Ministry
Apr 01, 2020, at 12:32 pm
Rio de Janeiro/Sputnik/UNI: Brazil's death toll from the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has risen over the past 24 hours by 42 to 201, the Health Ministry said in a statement.
Shanghai reports seven new imported COVID-19 cases
Apr 01, 2020, at 12:29 pm
Shanghai/Xinhua/UNI: Shanghai reported seven new confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) from overseas, the municipal health commission said on Wednesday.
US Coronavirus death toll may vary between a hundred thousand to 2.2 m, says White House
Apr 01, 2020, at 11:43 am
Washington/UNI: The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) death toll in the United States may range from 1,00,000 people in the good and up to 2.2 million people in the worst-case scenario, according to expert materials released on Tuesday by the White House.
Global coronavirus cases tops 754,000, alerts WHO
Apr 01, 2020, at 11:37 am
Moscow/UNI: The World Health Organization estimates that 754,948 people worldwide have been infected with the new coronavirus, and 36,571 have died from it.
Number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in South Korea rises to 9,887 : KCDC
Apr 01, 2020, at 11:35 am
Seoul/Sputnik/UNI: South Korea has registered 101 new cases of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), 159 people have recovered over the past 24 hours, the overall number of confirmed cases has risen to 9,887, the Health Ministry's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) said.
Odisha reports fourth COVID-19 positive case
Apr 01, 2020, at 11:33 am
Bhubaneswar/UNI: One more person in Odisha tested COVID- 19 positive taking the total number of Coronavirus positive cases to four in the state.
West Bengal reports eight fresh active Covid-19 cases amid two more deaths
Apr 01, 2020, at 02:09 am
Kolkata/IBNS: The total number of Covid-19 cases in West Bengal has mounted to 37 as swab samples of eight persons, who are currently undergoing treatment at different hospitals, were found Covid-19 positive, officials said on Tuesday late night. Two persons died during the day taking the death toll in the state to five.
Coronavirus necessitates global increase in protective equipment, medical supplies: UN health chief
Mar 31, 2020, at 04:40 pm
New York/IBNS: The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) is calling for stepped-up production of medical equipment and supplies as health facilities and health workers in many countries struggle with increasing and urgent demands brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.
India witnesses steep rise in COVID-19 cases amid lockdown
Mar 31, 2020, at 01:36 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: India is witnessing a steep rise in the number of Novel Coronavirus cases, which has already crossed 1,400, as the vast country of 28 states and eight union territories entered the seventh day of a massive three-week lockdown on Tuesday.
COVID-19 death toll in US tops 3,000: Johns Hopkins University
Mar 31, 2020, at 12:17 pm
Washington/Xinhua/UNI: The death toll from COVID-19 in the United States has topped 3,000, according to the latest tally from Johns Hopkins University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE).
Number of COVID-19 cases in Canada tops 7,400, death toll stands at 89 - Health Ministry
Mar 31, 2020, at 12:10 pm
Moscow/Sputnik/UNI: Canada’s total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases has risen to 7,424, while the death toll stands at 89, the country's Health Ministry said.
US to send medical equipment worth $100Mln to Italy: Donald Trump
Mar 31, 2020, at 12:09 pm
Washington/uni: US President Donald Trump has said that the United States is sending $100 million worth of protective medical equipment to Italy as the deal with the severe outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).
24 people in Delhi test positive for COVID-19 after a mosque event, 7 die
Mar 31, 2020, at 12:08 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: Twenty-four people have tested positive for Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) while seven died in the national capital of India following a mass gathering of Tableeghi Jamaat preachers at a religious event which was held at Alami Markaz Banglewali Masjid in Nizamuddin here, media reports said.
Five more from Delhi’s Nizamuddin prayer meet die in Telangana
Mar 31, 2020, at 12:07 pm
Hyderabad/UNI: Five more people from Telangana, who attended a religious prayer meeting at Markaz in Delhi’s Nizamuddin area from March 13-15, died of coronavirus on Monday alone to take the toll in the state to six in the last 48 hours.