Geneva, September 15 (AP): The WHO said there were about 4 million coronavirus cases reported globally last week, marking the first major drop in new infections in more than two months.
In recent weeks, ther
New Delhi, February 12 (IANS): Continuing its streak of low numbers of single-day coronavirus cases, India reported 9,309 new infections and 87 deaths in the last 24 hours, second-lowest this year so far, as pe
MUMBAI, October 31 (Reuters): India’s coronavirus caseload stood at 8.1 million on Saturday, with 48,268 new cases being recorded in the last 24 hours, data from the health ministry showed.
India
Washington, October 30 (Reuters): A record surge of coronavirus cases in the United States is pushing hospitals to the brink of capacity and killing up to 1,000 people a day, the latest figures show, with much
WARSAW, October 17 (Reuters): Poland reported a record 9,622 new coronavirus infections on Saturday, according to health ministry data published on Twitter, as fitness workers gathered in the capital to pr
YANGON, October 10 (Reuters): Myanmar's health ministry reported 2,158 new cases of coronavirus on Saturday in a record daily rise, along with 32 new deaths.
The Southeast Asian nation has locked do
NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 2 (IANS): With a spike of 81,214 coronavirus cases and 1,095 deaths in 24 hours, India's tally on Friday mounted to 63,94,069 cases.
Out of the total cases, 9,42,217 are currently acti
YANGON, September 21 (Reuters): Myanmar plans to push ahead with a November general election despite calls from opposition parties to postpone it because of a surge in novel coronavirus cases, officials sa
TEL AVIV, September 18 (Reuters): Israel entered a second nationwide lockdown on Friday at the onset of the Jewish high-holiday season, forcing residents to stay mostly at home amid a resurgence in new cor
MUMBAI, September 11 (Reuters) - Millions of coronavirus cases may have gone undetected in India earlier this year, a research paper estimates, saying that for every confirmed case in May, there were 82 to
YANGON, September 10 (Reuters): Myanmar increased lockdown measures in its biggest city on Thursday after reporting another record daily rise in coronavirus cases, with 120 new infections taking its o
MUMBAI, September 9 (Reuters): India reported 89,706 new coronavirus infections on Wednesday, taking its total caseload to 4.3 million, data from the health ministry showed.
The South Asian nation has t
MUMBAI, September 8 (Reuters): India recorded its highest daily deaths from the coronavirus in more than a month on Tuesday, even as new infections slowed, data from the health ministry showed.
The heal
JAKARTA, September 3 (Reuters): Indonesia posted another day of record high coronavirus cases on Thursday, with 3,622 new infections as the world's fourth-most populous nation grapples to contain a spr
MEXICO CITY, August 17 (Reuters): Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Monday he would volunteer to be among the first to try a Russian vaccine for the novel coronavirus if it proved effec
New Delhi, August 12 (IANS): All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Director Randeep Guleria, one of India's leading medical experts, has asserted that the coronavirus cases in the country hav
HONG KONG, July 31 (Reuters): Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam on Friday postponed a Sept. 6 election to the Chinese-ruled city's legislature by a year because of a rise in coronavirus cases, dealing a blow
HANOI, July 30 (Reuters): There had been so few coronavirus cases in Vietnam that every patient was known by a number: Patient 17 brought the virus back from Europe after an initial wave of infections from
RANCHI, JULY 28 (IANS): Jharkhand is witnessing an increase in the number of coronavirus cases due to neighbouring states of Bihar and West Bengal, a senior officer said on Tuesday.
Health Secretary Nitin Ma
BERLIN, July 28 (Reuters): Negligence is behind a steady rise in new coronavirus infections in Germany, the head of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for infectious diseases said on Tuesday, adding that it w