Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday underscored that the Covid-19 outbreak was a global affliction and said Bengal knew of no “magic spell” to keep it at bay when the number of patients was risin...

Bengal is among 13 states or Union territories performing less than 140 coronavirus disease tests per day per million population, a threshold set by the World Health Organisation for “comprehens...

As many as 24 leaders of the Bihar BJP unit tested positive for Covid-19 on Tuesday, leading the party to shut down its state headquarters in Patna and asking all leaders to quarantine themselves. So...

Rising Covid-19 cases across north Bengal and in neighbouring Sikkim have made the authorities of the two states draw up a fresh series of plans to curb the spread of the pandemic. In north Bengal, t...

Only 10 samples were collected on Tuesday from the densely populated Ganganagar, where a woman was tested novel coronavirus positive on Saturday. However, the locality has been made a containment zone...

The state health department is looking at a 100 per cent increase in sample testing capacity by mid-June with Jharkhand seeing a spurt in Covid-19 cases from May onward with the arrival of migrants.Pr...

A retired IAS officer in Uttar Pradesh has been booked by police for publicly claiming that the BJP-helmed state government was following a policy of “no test, no corona”.Surya Pratap Singh, who t...

The accompanying account, written in longhand on two pages, offers an insight into the ongoing lockdown from someone who has achingly described his status as being in “double lockdown”. The writer...

Health department officials are struggling to cope with consistent arrival of migrant workers in Malda district with allegations swirling that swab samples of most of them are not taken for tests and ...

The Mamata Banerjee government on Sunday reported further rapid improvement in Covid-19 stats with 8,668 tests in the past 24 hours, which is twice the 4,046 tests recorded a week ago on May 10.The hi...