Tag Archives: News about COVID-19

Written by Amitabh Sinha | Pune | Updated: October 10, 2020 3:59:32 pm Mumbai: Central Railway (CR) installation of automated gates at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT), to access the concourse and platform area for long-distance train passengers, in Mumbai on Thursday. (PTI) For seven days in a row, the …

Written by Amitabh Sinha, edited by Explained Desk | Pune | Updated: October 9, 2020 2:39:06 pm Passengers wearing protective masks queue on a platform to get tested for coronavirus disease at New Delhi’s Nizamuddin train station. (Express photo by Amit Mehra) Sustained drops in the daily number of new …

Written by Amitabh Sinha, edited by Explained Desk | Pune | Updated: October 9, 2020 12:43:55 am Children hang their masks on the nets and play a soccer game during the Covid-19 pandemic in Kochi, Kerala, on Tuesday, Oct.6, 2020 (AP Photo: RS Iyer). Kerala and Karnataka reported more than …

Written by Amitabh Sinha, edited by Explained Desk | Pune | Updated: October 6, 2020 10:22:30 pm Shoppers in protective masks walk past vendors at the Mullick Ghat flower market in Kolkata. (Photographer: Arko Datto / Bloomberg) Coronavirus cases in India: New detection of coronavirus cases fell further on Monday, …

Written by Amitabh Sinha | Pune | Updated: October 4, 2020 12:04:20 pm A healthcare worker sorts samples for COVID-19 testing at the Pusa Institute in New Delhi on Saturday, October 3, 2020 (Express photo by Amit Mehra). The number of new detections of coronavirus infections in India dropped further …

Written by Amitabh Sinha, edited by Explained Desk | Pune | Updated: October 3, 2020 6:02:39 pm Prabhu Shisharnappa Banshette, 37, provides transportation to citizens, including Covid-19 patients, wearing personal protective equipment in Pune. (Express photo: Pavan Khengre) Coronavirus cases in India: Daily detection of new positive coronavirus cases fell …

The death toll from the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in India surpassed the 100,000 mark on Friday, a grim milestone that comes exactly seven months from the day the first batch of cases was reported in the country. India became the third country in the world to cross this milestone: only …

In just over 200 days from the day the first coronavirus disease-related death was reported in India, the national death toll surpassed the 100,000 mark on Friday. In this period of time, 717 of the 734 districts of the country have reported at least one death, while the 20 most …

Written by Amitabh Sinha | Mumbai | Updated: October 3, 2020 7:08:32 am Maharashtra accounts for more than a third of India’s deaths, having recorded nearly 38,000 deaths so far. It also has a very high CFR of 2.67 percent. (Figurative) Coronavirus-related deaths in India crossed the 1 lakh mark …

Science published a paper Wednesday based on one of the world’s largest contact tracing exercises. The study, covering 85,000 primary cases, was conducted in Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu by a team of researchers led by Ramanan Laxminarayan of the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy. The study tracked …