The global coronavirus death toll approached 200,000 on Saturday as the United Nations launched an international push for a vaccine to defeat the pandemic. Governments around the world are struggling to limit the economic devastation unleashed by the virus, which has infected nearly 2.8 million people and left […]
NEW DELHI — India’s government is blaming an Islamic missionary meeting for a surge in coronavirus cases, triggering a wave of violence, business boycotts and hate speech toward Muslims that experts warn could worsen the pandemic in the world’s second-most populous country. The stigma faced by India’s Muslims, […]
WASHINGTON — What President Donald Trump says and does often flies in the face of mainstream science. Coronavirus and the idea of injecting disinfectants is only the latest episode. When a rare solar eclipse happened in 2017, astronomers and eye doctors repeatedly warned people not to stare directly […]
open view news desk NEW DELHI, APRIL 25: Ministry of Home Affairs issued an Order yesterday on amendments in the consolidated revised guidelines on lockdown measures to allow opening of shops. (https://pib.gov.in/PressReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=1618049) This Order implies that: In rural areas, all shops, except those in shopping malls are allowed to […]
Union HRD Minister felicitates the team of scientists from IIT Delhi involved in the development of Probe-free COVID-19 detection assay The testing kit will empower healthcare services and support government efforts to deal with Covid 19: HRD Minister Testing kit is the first ever probe-free assay for COVID-19 […]
New Delhi, Apr 25: Former prime minister Manmohan Singh has slammed the government over freezing of dearness allowance, asserting that it was not necessary at this stage to impose hardships on government servants and armed forces personnel. The finance ministry on Thursday froze inflation-linked allowance for 50 lakh central […]
New Delhi, Apr 25: The death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 775 and the number of cases climbed to 24,506 in the country on Saturday, according to the Union Health Ministry The number of active COVID-19 cases stood at 18,668 while 5,062 people were cured and discharged, […]
Testing of an experimental COVID-19 vaccine began in healthy volunteers in Britain Thursday, the latest in a cluster of early-stage studies in search of protection against the coronavirus. University of Oxford researchers gave injections to volunteers in a study that eventually aims to include hundreds in hopes of […]
The Latest on the coronavirus pandemic. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. TOP OF THE HOUR: — Pandemic job losses hit new high, antiviral tests disappoint. — […]
WASHINGTON — The parent company of Lysol and another disinfectant warned Friday that its products should not be used as an internal treatment for the coronavirus after President Donald Trump wondered about the prospect during a White House briefing. Trump noted Thursday that researchers were looking at the effects of […]
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