India’s healthcare workers are risking their lives as they battle Coronavirus infections at the frontline. Overburdened with work, several doctors and medical staff are also putting themselves at risk of virus infections. While medical professionals have raised multiple concerns over the lack of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), hygienic quarantine facilities, and mental health support as ...

On Wednesday Government of India issued guidelines for Unlock 3.0 as a part of reopening of country. Guidelines allow the gymnasiums and yoga centres to reopen from August 5. Also, the regulations of night curfew have been revoked despite of other restrictions being continued to be implemented. Among the activities and provisions that remain prohibited ...

Four months and coronavirus infection has spread in India to every nook and corner, not sparing any state or Union Territory, except for Lakshadweep islands. More than 1.1 million people have been engulfed by the novel coronavirus in India alone. Andaman & Nicobar Islands has the lowest count in India with over 150 cases now. ...

Karnataka, especially Bengaluru, has seen a spurge in coronavirus cases and experts have predicted that by August the cases will cross five million with nearly 9,000 deaths. Initially, Karnataka was one of the states that had controlled the spread of virus well and was lauded for the strict implementations of the guidelines set by the ...

The Coronavirus pandemic has affected millions of lives across the world with health officials globally stressing the public to wear face masks or coverings to protect themselves and others from virus transmission. As the COVID-19 outbreak began around the world, demand for N95 masks also increased across all sections of society leading to a global ...

Andhra Pradesh saw yet another single day spike so far as state’s overall tally of the coronavirus cases reached 38,044, and 40 deaths were reported in 24 hours on Thursday, The Hindu reported. According to the Health Department, 1,015 patients got discharged from the hospital in 24 hours. Around 19,393 recovered, and 18,159 cases were ...

International Olympic Committee member, Dick Pound says that if the Tokyo summer olympics is cancelled next year, it will also mean that winter olympics will also be cancelled in Beijing scheduled for later in the year 2022. After being pushed back by a year due the outbreak of coronavirus, the Olympics is scheduled to be ...

The trials of the world’s first coronavirus vaccine on volunteers at Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University have been effectively completed. Elena Smolyarchuk, the chief researcher at the university, told Tass news on Sunday that the research and the final results of the vaccine came out effective. In the month of March, the World Health Organization (WHO) ...

In an unprecedented development, World Health Organisation (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus hailed the efforts of Mumbai authorities in containing the COVID-19 outbreak in Dharavi – Asia’s largest slum. Speaking at a virtual press conference in Geneva on Saturday, the WHO chief lauded the efforts of the authorities in ensuring the basics of testing, tracing, ...

The Asia Cup scheduled to take place in September in Sri Lanka has been cancelled as of 2020 in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic. The Asian Cricket Council (ACC) is looking at a window in June 2021 to host the tournament. The officials have also raised eyebrows on Indian Premier League(IPL) being considered to take ...