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[ad_1] Image for representation: Reuters The world has a “long, long way to go” to control the coronavirus pandemic, despite tentative steps in many countries to start restarting normal life, the WHO’s leading emergency expert warned. Reuters Geneva Last update: May 14, 2020 8:34 AM IST Mike Ryan, head of …

[ad_1] GENEVA: The coronavirus causing Covid-19 could become endemic like HIV, the World Health Organization said Wednesday, warning against any attempt to predict how long it would continue to circulate and calling for a “massive effort” to counter it. “It is important to put this on the table: this virus …

[ad_1] Written by Krishn Kaushik The | New Delhi | Updated: May 14, 2020 7:54:16 am A medical officer stamps the hand of a man who returned to Agartala on a special train from Bangalore. Express Photo Abhishek Saha The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the country nearly doubled …

[ad_1] Opposition parties expressed their disappointment with the special Covid-19 stimulus package announced by the Center on Wednesday with Congress alleging that it has nothing for migrant workers returning to their home states. Congress sent former finance minister P Chidambaram to counter government announcements. “There is nothing in what the …

[ad_1] Six migrant workers were hit by a UP government bus in the Muzaffarnagar district Highlight Workers walking to their hometown in Bihar from Punjab The accident happened at 11pm on Wednesday “The bus was empty and the driver is running away”: Police Muzaffarnagar: Six migrant workers were hit by …

[ad_1] Odisha recorded a triple digit jump in a single day by adding 101 new COVID-19 Positive cases Wednesday, bringing their total to 538, the State Department of Family Health and Welfare said. The number of cases in the state has increased more than twice in less than a week, …

[ad_1] Mamata Banerjee said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s economic package was a bluff. Calcutta West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee criticized the central government’s COVID-19 economic package on Wednesday, calling it “a big zero” without any help to the states. Ms. Banerjee alleged that the central government was “misleading …

[ad_1] The number of coronavirus disease (Covid-19) cases reported in one day has seen an increase of almost four times in the past month, with 990 cases reporting positive on April 15 compared to 3,525 cases reported on May 13, according to data. Collated by the Association of Indian Health …

[ad_1] Written by Sunny Verma , Aanchal Magazine Anil Sasi The | New Delhi | Updated: May 14, 2020 6:55:25 am Nirmala Sitharaman at the press conference. Anil Sharma UNION Minister of Finance Nirmala Sitharaman announced on Wednesday the first tranche of a financial aid plan whose main objective was …

[ad_1] On April 7, exactly four weeks after the first Covid-19 case was detected in Maharashtra on March 9, the count crossed 1000 to 1018. That day, the death toll in the state was 64 (India’s overall toll was 160 that day), and the mortality rate stood at 6.29% (more …