Kolkata, Two hundred eight persons including 14 confirmed COVID-19 patients - one of them a nine month old baby girl, the country's youngest Coronavirus positive case - are admitted in the isolation wards of various hospitals in West Bengal where one person has died of the disease so far.

According to the stat

Panaji, Nearly 19,000 registered construction workers in Goa will get a monetary package as well as a one-time relief in view of the ongoing Covid-19 crisis, Goa's Labour Minister Jennifer Monserrate said here on Saturday.

"As an emergency measure, all registered construction workers will get 15-day wages

London, Researchers at the University of Oxford are looking for over 500 healthy volunteers to test if their vaccine, called 'ChAdOx1 nCoV-19', can prevent the novel coronavirus.

The team at Oxford will enroll healthy volunteers aged between 18–55, who, if pass screening, will be the first humans to

London, A shrimp seller at the wet market in the Chinese city of Wuhan believed to be the centre of the coronavirus pandemic, may be the first person to have tested positive for the disease, a media report said on Saturday.

The report by the London-based Metro newspaper said that 57-year-old woman, named by the Wa

Washington, The total number of global coronavirus cases has increased to 601,478, while the death toll stood at 27,862, the latest update by the Washington-based Johns Hopkins University revealed on Saturday.

Besides the cases and deaths, a total of 131,826 people have recovered from the disease, Xinhua news agen

Bengaluru, Leading digital healthcare platform Practo on Saturday said it has partnered with diagnostic lab chain Thyrocare to conduct Covid-19 detection tests authorised by the government and the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).

Starting Saturday, the test is available for Mumbai residents for Rs 4,500,

Mumbai, Actress Shikha Malhotra, who worked with Sanjay Mishra in "Kaanchli Life in a Slough", is currently working as a volunteer at a hospital in Mumbai to fight against coronavirus.

For the uninitiated, Shikha has a degree in nursing from Delhi's Vardhaman Mahavir Medical College and Safrdarjung H

New Delhi, Punjab chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Saturday urged foreign affairs minister S. Jaishankar to bring stranded Sikh families back from war-ravaged Afghanistan to India.

The chief minister tweeted: "Dear @DrSJaishankar, there are a large number of Sikh families who want to be flown out of Afg

Hyderabad, Amid a frightening picture being painted by coronavirus concerns across the world, there's a ray of hope emerging from the University of Hyderabad (UoH). In what could be a welcome breakthrough for the country and even the world, a faculty member of the biochemistry department has developed a possible vaccine agai

Ranchi,  Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren is making all out efforts to help the people of the state now under lockdown due to the coronavirus crisis.

Hemant Soren is holding regular meetings with officials and keeping track of the situation. He is also extending a helping hand through his Twitter ha