Nurses prepare for work in a Covid-19 intensive care unit (ICU) at the Ambroise Pare Clinic (Photographer: Nathan Laine/Bloomberg) The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in its recent Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), analysed hospitalisation data from 13 sites in the […]
AHMEDABAD: Former Gujarat chief minister Keshubhai Patel died here on Thursday after prolonged illness, family sources said. Patel (92) had recovered from COVID-19 recently and was rushed to a hospital in Ahmedabad Thursday morning morning following health complications, the sources said. The BJP veteran was […]
COVID-19 is having a detrimental impact on urban population health. The virus has caused hundreds of thousands of deaths. At the same time, public health and social measures to prevent virus transmission are having wider health consequences. Loss of employment and income has exacerbated food […]
BENGALURU: An Indian junior hockey player has tested positive for COVID-19. The midfielder, along with other junior players, had reached the Sports Authority of India in Bengaluru on Sunday for a camp. Around 36 players, on arrival, were tested with the RT-PCR test and the […]
BENGALURU: Job seekers’ interest in ‘contract or temporary jobs’ jumped by 150 per cent, while postings for these jobs increased by 119 per cent between January and July 2020, a flow-on effect of pandemic-induced economic shutdowns across industries, according to data from job site ‘Indeed’. […]
Karnataka on Wednesday reported 3,146 fresh COVID-19 infections and 55 deaths, taking the total tally and cumulative fatalities to 8,12,784 and 11,046 respectively. According to the health department, a total of 7,384 people were discharged, taking the total recoveries to 7,33,558 and the active cases […]
Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and colleagues outlined how face coverings can help prevent Covid-19 in a commentary in the Journal of the American Medical Association. He said Wednesday that overcoming politically driven biases around their use […]
Maharashtra on Wednesday reported 6,738 fresh COVID-19 cases, taking the total tally to 16,60,766. The state witnessed 8,430 recoveries. With this, the number of recoveries climbed to 14,86,926. According to Maharashtra’s Public Health Department, the state registered 91 deaths on Wednesday. With this, the death […]
New Delhi, Oct 29: With 49,881 new COVID-19 infections, India’s total cases surge to 80,40,203. With 517 new deaths, the toll mounts to 1,20,527. Total active cases are 6,03,687 after a decrease of 7,116 in the last 24 hours. Total cured cases are 73,15,989 with […]
Washington: The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 44.4 million, while the deaths have surged to 1,173,270, according to the Johns Hopkins University. As of Thursday morning, the total caseload and death toll stood at 44,400,318 and 1,173,270, respectively, the University’s Center for […]
