As the number of global coronavirus cases surpassed 300,000 and the death toll rose to more than 13,000, the World Health Organisation’s top emergency expert said on Sunday that countries could not ...

Young people should not consider themselves safe from the novel coronavirus, World Health Organisation (WHO) director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has said amid evidence and perceptions that the...

Hundreds of millions of people worldwide kicked off the weekend under a coronavirus lockdown, as the global death toll accelerated sharply and the World Health Organization warned young people they we...

The number of novel coronavirus cases in the country rose to 137 on Tuesday after fresh cases were reported from several states, the Union health ministry said on Tuesday, adding that these included 2...

US President Donald Trump late on Thursday praised Tokyo’s Olympic preparations and their “magnificent” venue just hours after he suggested delaying the Summer Games for up to a year due to the ...

Europe has now become the epicentre of a coronavirus pandemic that has claimed 5,000 lives around the world, the World Health Organisation said on Friday.The UN agency called it a “a tragic mileston...

The health department has obtained from the airport authorities a list of passengers who reached Bengal in the past few days from countries hit by the coronavirus. Efforts are on to trace them to thei...

The government is taking all steps to prevent spread of coronavirus and the scale of interventions has been increased in alignment with the evolving situation in India where 28,529 persons have been b...

Arnav, the seven-year-old son of a Mumbai police constable, suffered serious bites on his face and body by a rabid dog in 2018. He was taken to four different hospitals before being properly diagnosed...

In a new set of guidelines, the World Health Organisation said that infants under 1 year old should not be exposed to electronic screens and that children between the ages of 2 and 4 should not have m...