Health

A coronavirus-positive doctor in Jammu whose father and wife seem to have caught the infection from him has had his suffering compounded by what some have suggested is a smear campaign with communal o...

The number of confirmed novel coronavirus cases in Jharkhand rose to two on Thursday with a 52-year-old man who had hitchhiked from Asansol in Bengal to his village in Hazaribagh district, a distance ...

Only a handful of ATM kiosks are offering sanitisers in the steel city at a time hand hygiene is paramount to ward off Covid-19.Most of the 250-plus ATM kiosks functioning in the city don’t have san...

Twenty-two samples, including those of 10 Indonesian religious preachers evacuated from a site in Govindpur, tested negative for Covid-19 on Thursday, a big relief for residents of Dhanbad.All 22 samp...

Golaghat district is on its toes after eight persons tested positive for Covid-19, the first case in Upper Assam, on Wednesday night.As those who tested positive had attended the Nizamuddin congregati...

Around 35 outsourced health workers, deputed at the Covid-19 centre at RIMS here, on Wednesday shouted slogans against the hospital management for deputing them to handle patients with coronavirus-lik...

One of the four persons who tested positive in Assam on Wednesday is an inhabitant of Uttar Pradesh and had reached the state along with 10 others from Nizamuddin in Delhi for some “religious matter...

Mizoram health minister R. Lalthangliana on Tuesday cautioned people of the state against taking chloroquine hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin without prescription.The health minister said he came t...

Around 11,000 international passengers have arrived in the city between March 9 and March 26, and tracking a number of them has turned out to be impossible, sources in the state government said on Tue...

Japan’s capital recorded more than 70 new coronavirus infections on Tuesday for its highest tally in a single day, as pressure mounted on the prime minister to order a lockdown.Japanese cases topped...