Neha Arora NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India reported 76,472 new coronavirus cases on Saturday, slightly lower than the record breaking numbers of the past couple of days, but extending a run that has made the country’s outbreak currently the world’s worst. India has reported a total of 3.46 million cases during the pandemic, a tally […]
Lisa Shumaker Activists stand with American flags at sunrise to memorialize victims of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, near the Washington Monument in Washington, U.S., August 27, 2020. REUTERS/Tom Brenner (Reuters) – U.S. deaths from the novel coronavirus topped 180,000 on Thursday after a surge of new cases in June and July, particularly in hotspots […]
Elizabeth Pineau, Sudip Kar-Gupta PARIS (Reuters) – Face masks must be worn everywhere in the French capital Paris from Friday morning in order to curb a surge in coronavirus infections, police said on Thursday. The measure applies to all pedestrians as well as cyclists in Paris and its suburbs in an area that includes three neighbouring […]
LAW The petition claimed that a majority of the country’s population belong to financially weaker sections, wherein only one person is an earning member and others in the family are solely depend on that income for their sustenance. PTI GOVERNMENT HEALTH LAW New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a plea seeking formulation […]
MUMBAI (Reuters) – The number of coronavirus infections in India crossed the 3 million mark with 69,239 new cases reported on Sunday even as the country opened up various sectors from a lockdown that ground businesses to a halt and hurt economic growth. With the fifth straight day of more than 60,000 new cases, India’s […]
PARIS (Reuters) – The new coronavirus is circulating four times more among people under 40 in France than over among 65-year-olds, France’s health minister said, though he warned that contamination was on the rise among the elderly and more vulnerable too. “We’re in a risky situation,” Olivier Veran said in an interview with France’s Journal […]
Soutik Biswas India correspondent Coronavirus pandemic India has registered more than 50,000 Covid-19 deaths, overtaking the UK to become the fourth-worst-affected country for fatalities. But the number of deaths per million people stands at 34 – far lower than what has been reported in Europe or North America. The case fatality rate or CFR, which […]
Three pop concerts are being staged on one day in Germany to enable scientists to investigate the risks of such mass indoor events during the pandemic. Some 4,000 healthy volunteers aged between 18 and 50 were urged to sign up for Saturday’s study in Leipzig, carried out by Halle University. Singer-songwriter Tim Bendzko agreed to […]
Coronavirus will be present “forever in some form or another”, a member of the government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) has said. Sir Mark Walport said people would need to be vaccinated at regular intervals. His comments come after the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said he hoped the pandemic would be over […]
Madhurima Dhanuka, who works on prison reforms, says the focus should also have been on the inmates still inside the prison and the staff. By Akshita Jain AMIT DAVE / REUTERS Prisoners stand in a queue after they were released on parole at the Sabarmati Central Jail in Ahmedabad, March 30, 2020. Since the Covid-19 outbreak began […]
