China Says Indian Criticism Of Covid-19 Test Kits Is “Irresponsible”
China has criticised India’s decision to stop using Chinese testing kits for the novel coronavirus because of quality issues as...
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Pandemic “Far From Over”, Worried About Children: WHO Chief
The coronavirus pandemic is “far from over” and is still disrupting normal health services, especially life-saving immunisation for children in...
India Looks To Ease Coronavirus Lockdown
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has held talks with the chief ministers of the country’s 28 states to decide on what...
COVID-19: India Debates An Easing Of Restrictions
In India, calls for an easing of the nationwide lockdown which has caused deep economic pain are growing. While a...
PM Urges Citizens To Follow Lockdown As Covid-19 Spreads
Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged Indians to comply with a nationwide lockdown and social distancing measures on Sunday, a day...
Cured COVID-19 Patient Using Plasma Therapy: Delhi Hospital
A private hospital in Delhi has claimed that a coronavirus patient, who was administered plasma therapy for the first time...
Govt. Brushes Off Proposal For Covid-19 Tax On Super Rich
A group of Indian Revenue Service officers have recommended taxing the super rich, and foreign companies, to help pay for...
“No Evidence” That Recovered COVID-19 Patients Cannot Be Reinfected: WHO
The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Saturday that there was currently “no evidence” that people who have recovered from...
Migrant Workers Bear The Brunt Of The Lockdown
Most days, you can find Dayaram Kushwaha and his wife, Gyanvati, hauling bricks for stonemasons in a booming northern suburb...
Amid Lockdown, Curbs On Small Businesses Eased
The government allowed a limited reopening of shops in neighbourhoods and residential areas from Saturday, more than a month after...
At 51,000, US Records Over 1/4 Of Global Covid-19 Deaths
The United States accounts for more than one fourth of the global Covid-19 deaths and over one-third of the total...
Trump’s COVID-19 Disinfectant Ideas Horrify Health Experts
U.S. President Donald Trump’s musings on whether injecting disinfectants might treat COVID-19 horrified medical professionals on Friday and raised fresh...
Truckers In Crisis: Police Checks, No Food, Covid-19 Fears
Truck driver Arju Yadav says he was on a 30-40 km (20-25 mile) journey earlier this month to deliver a...
People Try To Flee Overcrowded Quarantine Centres
Thousands of people in overcrowded coronavirus quarantine centres in government buildings across India are complaining of poor food and sanitation...
Covid-19 Mortality Rates Drop Sharply In India
Parts of India have recorded dramatic falls in the number of deaths at a time when funeral parlours were bracing...
“Like Injecting Disinfectant”: Trump’s Covid-19 Cure Idea Goes Viral
An observation by a top US official that the coronavirus is quickly destroyed by sunlight led President Donald Trump to...
South Asia Coronavirus Cases Top 37,000
South Asia’s coronavirus infections have crossed 37,000, with more than half in India, official data showed on Thursday, complicating the...
No Salary Rises For Over 11mn To Combat Covid-19
India on Thursday froze inflation-linked increases in salaries and pensions for more than 11 million Central government employees and pensioners...
Facebook Bets On India With $5.7bn Reliance Deal
Facebook is set to spend $5.7 billion to buy a 9.99% stake in Reliance Industries’ digital arm, as it looks...
U.S. Was Attacked: Trump On Coronavirus Pandemic
Struggling to restore normalcy in the U.S. where COVID-19 has claimed the lives of more than 47,000 people and infected...
‘I Do Feel Afraid’: Workers Who Disinfect Covid-19 Hotspots
One recent morning in his two-room New Delhi home, sanitation worker Dev Dutt Sharma drank tea before putting on an...
Covid-19 Lockdown Deepens Holocaust Survivors’ Loneliness
On Tuesday, Elias Feinzilberg, a 102-year-old Holocaust survivor, had to commemorate Israel’s annual memorial day -- for the six million...
Supply Snags In Race For Affordable Ventilators
Indian medical device makers, racing to churn out ventilators as domestic COVID-19 cases spike, have been beset by supply bottlenecks,...
Coronavirus Antibody Tests Paused After Questions Over Reliability
India has ordered a pause in testing for antibodies to the coronavirus because of concern over accuracy, health officials said...
Coronavirus Cases In India Near 20,000
With 1,383 fresh coronavirus cases reported in the past 24 hours, the total number of cases in India has gone...
