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Tihar Jail. (Photo: File)

Bombay High Court directs Maharashtra govt to conduct random COVID-19...

The Court also asked the authorities to notify details of nearly 35 temporary jails it has formed across nearly 27...

3 July 2020 12:38 PM IST

A health worker checks sanitises the hand of a man in Mumbai. (PTI)

With over 20K cases in a day, India's coronavirus cases now stand at...

The country recorded 20,903 coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours.

3 July 2020 11:56 AM IST

The Mumbai police has restricted movement of people for essential purposes to a radius of 2 km. (PTI Photo)

Maharashtra's COVID-19 nightmare: State added over 1 lakh cases in...

At the start of June, there were 70,013 COVID-19 cases in Maharashtra, which soared to 1,74,761 lakh by the end of June.

3 July 2020 2:38 AM IST

Gurugram under lockdown. (PTI)

India's coronavirus tally crosses 6 lakh mark in a span of just five...

The COVID-19 case load increased to 6,04,641 while 434 people have succumbed to the disease in the last 24 hours

2 July 2020 11:08 AM IST

A health worker collects swab samples of a man for COVID-19 testing in a containment zone amid lockdown in Guwahati. PTI

Centre asks states to ramp up testing as India's COVID-19 struggle...

India on Wednesday registered 18,653 fresh cases of the coronavirus, taking its overall tally to 5,85,493

2 July 2020 10:40 AM IST

Maharashtra tops the list of positive cases and deaths as it has 7 lakh cases and 23,000 deaths respectively.

Centre urges 140 tests per million in all districts as coronavirus...

The meeting was convened at a time when coronavirus pandemic cases have refused to show a downward trend

28 Aug 2020 12:34 PM IST

Nurses collect the data of people about to get tested for COVID-19 at a testing center in the capital Kigali, Rwanda. (AP)

Limited testing supplies? Rwandan researchers make use of pool testing

Some experts, and even the researchers, had initially noted concerns that the complexity of the approach could deter its...

13 Aug 2020 2:38 PM IST

PM Narendra Modi (AFP)

Modi to CMs in video conference: Defeat coronavirus in your states so...

Modi said the recovery rate has gone up which, he added, meant that government efforts have proved to be effective.

11 Aug 2020 3:11 PM IST

A police man appeals residents to follow all restrictions in a COVID-19 containment zone, as the number of coronavirus cases rises in Patuli area, in Kolkata, Monday. (PTI)

For the first time in five days, coronavirus single-day tally dips...

There are 6,39,929 active cases of coronavirus infection in the country presently

11 Aug 2020 12:08 PM IST

Wear mask and stay safe. (PTI)

COVID-19 pandemic: India crosses 17-lakh cases mark after record surge...

Recoveries, meanwhile, crossed the 11-lakh mark

1 Aug 2020 12:13 PM IST

The new test, based on the design of a DNA test developed by professor Christofer Toumazou at Imperial College London, received approval for clinical use at the end of April after successful trials.

90-minute British DnaNudge COVID-19 test is accurate, Lancet study...

The ability to correctly identify positive cases is at 94.4% and a specificity correctly identifying those without the...

18 Sept 2020 3:58 PM IST

A medic collects a swab sample of a woman for COVID-19 test at Civil Hospital, in Amritsar, Wednesday. (PTI)

Centre tells states, UTs to retest all symptomatic negative cases of...

The Union ministry stated that such symptomatic negative cases could remain RT-PCT untested and spread the disease among...

10 Sept 2020 2:17 PM IST