- Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Britain’s overall death toll from the coronavirus outbreak rose by 739 to 27,510 on Friday, as new data indicated that people in disadvantaged areas were worse hit. The increase came as health secretary Matt Hancock announced the country had met its goal of achieving 100,000 tests a day by the…
The world’s biggest coronavirus lockdown will be extended for two weeks beyond May 4, the Indian government said Friday but with some easing of restrictions — including for alcohol. The lockdown imposed near the end of March has caused misery for millions of workers in India’s vast informal sector and…
INDIA has recorded 2,293 new COVID-19 cases and 71 deaths in the last 24 hours, said the health ministry. With this the total number of cases now stand at 37,336, and the virus claimed 1,218 lives as on Saturday (2). Maharashtra continued to remain the most-affected Indian state with a…
THE focus during the coronavirus crisis has been on the shortage of gowns, masks and other personal protective equipment (PPE) for frontline health workers, but the boss of one pharmaceutical company said it is becoming harder getting all the raw materials he needs for making generic drugs such as paracetamol.…
Indian authorities plan to make a contact-tracing mobile app mandatory for everything from taking public transit to going to work, raising concerns among digital rights experts about privacy and increased surveillance. Aarogya Setu, the app launched by the Indian government earlier this month to stem the novel coronavirus outbreak, evaluates…
The Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) has given the nod for clinical trials of Glenmark Pharmaceuticals’ Favipiravir antiviral tablets on COVID-19 patients, the company said on Thursday (30). Glenmark is the first company in India to receive such an approval from the drug controller, a statement said. It further…
The UK has announced seven further charter flights to repatriate over 2,000 stranded British travellers stranded in India due to the lockdown. All the new flights are between Amritsar and London to cater to the thousands still stranded in Punjab, with a daily flight planned every day between May 5…
THE death toll due to the novel coronavirus pandemic rose to 1,147 with 72 more fatalities and the number of cases climbed to 35,043 in India on Friday (1), the health ministry said. The ongoing lockdown in the country is set to end on Sunday (3). The active COVID-19 cases stood…
US secretary of state Mike Pompeo on Wednesday (29) praised India for lifting export bans on critical medical supplies including pharmaceuticals used to treat COVID-19 patients, saying it was an example of working together with partner countries to tackle the challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic. “We’re working with our…
Indian-origin historian Dr. Prashant Kidambi has been shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2020 for his book ‘Cricket Country: An Indian Odyssey in the Age of Empire’. Six authors were included in the list, for the £60,000 book prize which is the most valuable non-fiction writing prize in the UK,…
