Baby elephant rescued by villagers near Guwahati
Sep 23, 2020, at 10:48 pm
Guwahati/IBNS: A baby elephant, which was strayed out from an elephant herd, was rescued by villagers at Panbari area outskirts of Guwahati.
COVID-19: India registers 1085 new deaths
Sep 23, 2020, at 03:15 pm
New Delhi: India registered 83,347 new cases in the past 24 hours as the COVID-19 tally in the country now stands at 5,646,011.
Zimbabwe to open traditional Chinese medicine clinic
Sep 23, 2020, at 02:39 pm
Harare/Xinhua: Zimbabwe's largest referral hospital here has established a traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) clinic and is applying for an official license to open, according to the country's ministry of health and child care.
Beijing reports no new COVID-19 cases
Sep 23, 2020, at 02:32 pm
Beijing/Xinhua: No new locally transmitted confirmed, asymptomatic, or suspected cases of COVID-19 were reported in Beijing on Tuesday, the municipal health commission said Wednesday.
Around 2,500 volunteers have received 1st component of Russian COVID-19 vaccine : Gamaleya
Sep 22, 2020, at 10:54 pm
Moscow/Sputnik: Around 2,500 volunteers have received the first component of Russia's COVID-19 vaccine during the post-registration trials, and no significant complications have been registered, the head of the Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology said on Tuesday.
Millions of US citizens may have to pay for COVID-19 vaccine despite gov't Plans - Reports
Sep 22, 2020, at 10:46 pm
Moscow/Sputnik: Millions of people in the United States may have to pay for COVID-19 vaccination contrary to the plans of the authorities to make the shots free, as government-funded Medicare health insurance for the elderly does not cover the costs of drugs approved for emergency use, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) newspaper reported.
Medium intensity earthquake jolts Assam and other parts of NE
Sep 22, 2020, at 08:32 pm
Guwahati/IBNS: A medium intensity earthquake rocked Assam and other parts of the North Eastern region early on Tuesday.
Covid-19: India records over 1 lakh cured cases, recovery rate 80.86%
Sep 22, 2020, at 06:12 pm
New Delhi/UNI: India on Tuesday clocked a record number of cured or discharged cases in a single day amounting to over 1 lakh, the Health Ministry data said.
India adds 75,083 Covid-19 cases in 24 hours, tally crosses 55 lakh
Sep 22, 2020, at 04:19 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: India, which has been battered by the Novel Coronavirus pandemic despite months of lockdown, on Tuesday added 75,083 Covid-19 cases taking the tally of infections beyond 55 lakh.
Global solution to COVID-19 in sight, ‘we sink or we swim together’: WHO chief
Sep 22, 2020, at 03:45 pm
New York: COVID-19 is an “unprecedented global crisis that demands an unprecedented global response”, the chief of the UN health agency said on Monday, unveiling a plan to have two billion doses of coronavirus vaccine available by the end of 2021.
Emissions could add 15 inches to 2100 sea-level rise, NASA-led study finds
Sep 22, 2020, at 12:25 am
New York: An international effort that brought together more than 60 ice, ocean and atmosphere scientists from three dozen international institutions has generated new estimates of how much of an impact Earth’s melting ice sheets could have on global sea levels by 2100. If greenhouse gas emissions continue apace,
Bangladesh registers 1705 new COVID-19 cases, 40 fatalities
Sep 21, 2020, at 09:49 pm
Dhaka/UNI: The death toll from coronavirus has reached 4,979 as 40 more people died from the disease in the last 24 hours.
India reports more than 90,000 COVID-19 recoveries for the 3rd successive day
Sep 21, 2020, at 09:28 pm
New Delhi: India has crossed the significant landmark of more than 80% national Recovery Rate.
India reports over 86,000 Covid-19 cases, tally 54.87 lakh
Sep 21, 2020, at 05:02 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: India, the worst Covid-19-affected Asian country, on Monday reported over 86,000 fresh infections taking the tally to 54.87 lakh.
New Zealand relaxes COVID-19 restrictions
Sep 21, 2020, at 03:18 pm
Wellington/Xinhua: New Zealand's largest city Auckland will ease restrictions on gatherings at midnight Wednesday, moving down from COVID-19 Alert Level 2.5 to 2, with the rest of the country moving down from Alert Level 2 to Level 1 from midnight Monday.
DCGI approves Tata Group's low cost CRISPR Covid-19 test 'Feluda'
Sep 21, 2020, at 07:55 am
Delhi/IBNS: The Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) has given its approval for the commercial launch of India's first Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR), Covid-19 test 'Feluda' developed by the Tata Group and CSIR-IGIB (Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology).
106-yr-old woman beats coronavirus in Maharashtra
Sep 21, 2020, at 01:44 am
Thane/UNI: Maharashtra Tourism Minister Aaditya Thackeray on Sunday praised the Kalyan Dombivli Municipal Corporation(KDMC) for successfully curing a 106-year-old woman of COVID-19.
Covid-19: Bangladesh reports 1,544 fresh cases of nCoV, 26 deaths
Sep 21, 2020, at 01:36 am
Dhaka: Bangladesh recorded 1,544 new cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours, taking the COVID tally to 3,48,916, the Directorate General of Health Services said in a statement on Sunday.
New Zealand reported 4 new cases of COVID-19
Sep 21, 2020, at 01:06 am
Wellington/Xinhua: New Zealand reported four new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, the Ministry of Health said in a statement.
COVID-19 pandemic situation in Europe worsening: WHO
Sep 21, 2020, at 12:17 am
Belgrade/UNI: The World Health Organization (WHO) has said that the epidemiological situation in Europe, particularly the Balkans is worsening due to the failure of the public to comply with the measures adopted against COVID-19.
Assam registers 2,595 fresh COVID-19 cases in last 24 hours
Sep 20, 2020, at 05:59 pm
Guwahati/IBNS: Assam has registerd 2,595 fresh positive cases for COVID-19 in last 24 hours.
With 92,605 new coronavirus cases, India's tally crosses 54-lakh mark
Sep 20, 2020, at 04:56 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: India has recorded more recoveries than the number of fresh cases of coronavirus for the second consecutive day, the Union Health Ministry bulletin informed on Sunday.
Coronavirus: Over 95,000 patients recover in 24 hours, Covid-19 tally crosses 53 lakh
Sep 19, 2020, at 04:29 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: In a ray of light for the country of 1.3 billion amid the Covid-19 pandemic, a record 95,880 people who were infected with the virus have recovered in the last 24 hours.
COVID-19 illustrates 'woefully under prepared' world: UN health chief
Sep 19, 2020, at 03:02 pm
New York: Despite efforts to break the global cycle of panic and neglect seen throughout multiple disease outbreaks, the UN health agency chief said on Friday that the new coronavirus has shown that the world was “woefully under prepared”.
Amid COVID-19 horror, Brucellosis outbreak hits thousands after factory leak in China
Sep 19, 2020, at 02:33 am
Beijing: The horror of COVID-19 pandemic is still not over and in such a scenario a new report has emerged that several people in northwest China have tested positive for a bacterial disease.
WHO chief makes last push for countries to join multilateral COVID-19 vaccine effort
Sep 18, 2020, at 11:41 pm
New York: Countries which have not signed on to a global mechanism that has pledged to provide fair and timely access to a COVID-19 vaccine, are urged to do so before Friday, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) told a virtual meeting of Member States, held on the eve of the deadline.
Reversing land degradation can ‘pre-empt and manage’ conflicts
Sep 18, 2020, at 10:32 pm
New York: To help prevent conflicts and at the same time protect the planet, “we all must tackle environmental degradation”, a top UN official told the Security Council on Thursday.
New Zealand reports zero coronavirus cases for 1st time in over a month
Sep 18, 2020, at 10:13 pm
Wellington/UNI: New Zealand has reported no new cases of coronavirus on Friday, the first time since early August.
Protect health workers to save patients, WHO reiterates on World Patient Safety Day
Sep 18, 2020, at 10:08 pm
New York: COVID-19 has reminded the world of the vital role health workers play in relieving suffering and saving lives, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) has said, underlining the need to ensure their safety and protection.
China leading in COVID-19 vaccine development, has no need to steal foreign data, claims Beijing
Sep 18, 2020, at 09:51 pm
Beijing/Sputnik: China is leading in the development of a vaccine against COVID-19 and thus Beijing does not need to steal vaccine-related data from other countries, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said on Friday, commenting on media reports claiming that Chinese hackers had allegedly stolen data on coronavirus vaccine development from Spain.