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Read more about Arunachal Pradesh reports 28 new Covid-19 cases in 24 hrs, tally at 16,948 on Business Standard. At least 28 more people, including three security personnel, tested positive for Covid-19 in Arunachal Pradesh, which took the tally in the state to 16,948, a senior official said on Saturday

The family from Ganjam in Odisha, lost four bread winners to COVID in 2020

Prime Minister Narendra Modi. File   | Photo Credit: PTI Top officers from various ministries will participate in the meeting scheduled for 8 pm on Saturday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called a review meeting with top officials over the COVID-19 situation and the ongoing vaccination exercise in the country, government sources said on Saturday. Top officers from various ministries will participate in the meeting scheduled for 8 pm on Saturday. The meeting comes amid a huge surge in COV...

Coronavirus | India conducts the highest number of daily tests Updated: Updated: 14.95 lakh samples studied; 2.10 lakh fresh cases and 1,070 deaths reported. Share Article AAA A health worker collects swab sample form a woman at a testing centre in Bhubaneswar. File   | Photo Credit: Biswaranjan Rout 14.95 lakh samples studied; 2.10 lakh fresh cases and 1,070 deaths reported. As many as 14,95,397 samples were tested in India on Friday (results of which were made available on Saturday), the h...

The Sahus from Ganjam lost four bread winners to COVID in 2020. As a second wave of COVID sweeps through the country, a family in remote Angargaon in Odisha is haunted by the tragedy that the virus visited on them last year. The Sahu family in Ganjam district had little notice of the disease that was to wipe out an entire generation — four brothers who fell victim to the coronavirus, three within days of each other. In the months that followed the women forged bonds to help each other throug...

Read more about From exporter of vaccine to importer: Priyanka Gandhi taks dig at govt on Business Standard. Amid unprecedented surge in Covid cases, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Saturday attacked the government for exporting vaccine without having sufficient stock

Updated: April 16, 2021 21:53 IST The team reviewed published research and identified 10 lines of evidence to support the predominance of the airborne route. Share Article AAA A health worker talking to people about coronavirus RT-PCR testing in New Delhi. File   | Photo Credit: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar The team reviewed published research and identified 10 lines of evidence to support the predominance of the airborne route. There is consistent, strong evidence to prove that the SARS-CoV-2 virus,...

Facing a sudden surge in coronavirus infections, India is once again home to the world’s second-largest outbreak, overtaking Brazil after the latter moved ahead in March. But behind the bleak statistical jockeying is an epidemiological enigma over why the Latin American country has been far more devastated by the pathogen. When it comes to the scale of infections, the two nations are similarly matched, with cases hovering around 14 million and hospitals from Mumbai to Sao Paulo under increa...

A COVID-19 isolation centre, in Surat on April 16, 2021.   | Photo Credit: PTI Concealment will lead to panic among public, says division bench of Chief Justice Vikram Nath and Justice Bhargav Karia. A day after raising doubts about the actual number of COVID-19 cases and the numbers given by the State government during its hearing on the suo motu petition initiated by it, the Gujarat High Court on Friday asked the State to publish actual data on RT-PCR tests and people found positive for COV...

Coronavirus | PM Modi calls for increasing production of medical grade oxygen Updated: Updated: April 16, 2021 15:42 IST The PMO said that an overview of district-level situation in these States was presented to the Prime Minister. Share Article Prime Minister Narendra Modi. File   | Photo Credit: PTI The PMO said that an overview of district-level situation in these States was presented to the Prime Minister. Amid a steep rise in coronavirus cases, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday unde...