Tag: covid19

17 persons, who returned to Andhra from foreign countries, test positive for COVID-1

VIJAYAWADA: A total of 17 people, who returned from foreign countries to their native places in Andhra Pradesh, tested positive for COVID-19 in the past 24 hours. Apart from these returnees, 66 others tested positive for the virus taking the total number of positive cases to 2,780. The tally includes 153 people from other states […]

US, China at ‘brink of new Cold War’: Chinese foreign minister

BEIJING: The United States is pushing relations with China to “the brink of a new Cold War”, the Chinese foreign minister said on Sunday, with tensions soaring over coronavirus, Hong Kong’s status and other issues. “It has come to our attention that some political forces in the US are taking China-US relations hostage and pushing […]

COVID-19 inside story from Telangana

COVID-19 pandemic has started to spread its wings in India and most importantly the cities are worst affected in the sub-continent. All big cities in the country are facing unimaginable times and when compared, Hyderabad is in a far better position but that is not the end of the story. It is known that the […]

Italy coronavirus death toll could be 19,000 higher than reported

ROME: Italy’s death toll from the novel coronavirus in March and April could be nearly 19,000 higher than the official figure of 32,000, the national social security agency said Thursday. The Istituto Nazionale della Previdenza Sociale (INPS), the largest social security and welfare institute in Italy, said in a new study that the official death […]

278 Maharashtra Police personnel test COVID-19 positive in last 48 hours

MUMBAI: As many as 278 police personnel have tested positive for COVID-19 in Mumbai in the last 48 hours, said Maharashtra Police on Friday. With this, the total number of positive cases among the Maharashtra Police personnel climbed to 1,666, which include 473 recovered and 16 deaths. At present, there are 1,177 active cases. Maharashtra […]

5 more die of Covid-19 in Telangana, toll mounts to 45

In the second biggest single-day jump, Telangana on Thursday reported five fatalities due to Covid-19, taking the state’s death toll to 45. The state has reported 11 deaths in three days. Two deaths occurred on Wednesday while four fatalities were reported on Tuesday. It was on March 30 that the state had reported six deaths, […]

Hyderabad woman claims husband missing, hospital says he died of Covid

Three weeks after her husband died of Covid-19 at Hyderabad’s Gandhi Hospital and was cremated by the municipal authorities, a woman claimed he is missing and insisted that the authorities show proof of his death and funeral. Not convinced by the statement of the government-run hospital that her husband died on May 1, a day […]

Finally, Google-Apple COVID app tech released, 22 countries set to build on it

Washington: Apple and Google on Wednesday released long-awaited smartphone technology to automatically notify people if they might have been exposed to the coronavirus. The companies said 22 countries and several U.S. states are already planning to build voluntary phone apps using their software. It relies on Bluetooth wireless technology to detect when someone who downloaded […]

5 Corona Cases In Kukatpally, Panic Spreads

Kukatpally is one of the busiest places in Hyderabad and is a hub for many businesses and educational institutes. This place shivered in panic as Thursday five Corona positive cases were reportedly from Kukatpally. A doctor who resides at Rainbow vista apartment, Moosapet got infected with Corona. This doctor works at Apollo hospital and after […]

COVID-19 tally in Andhra increases to 2,605 with 45 new cases

VIJAYAWADA: COVID-19 count in Andhra Pradesh went up to 2,605 with another 45 new positive cases reported across the state in the last 24 hours at 9 a.m. on Thursday. One more death in Nellore took the toll to 54 As per the media bulletin issued by the State Command Control Room (Health) on Thursday […]

COVID-19: Trump says his hydroxychloroquine regimen finishes in ‘day or two’

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump has said that the regimen of antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine that he is taking to ward off the coronavirus will finish in the next day or two. Trump disclosed on Tuesday that he was taking the drug despite medical warnings about potential serious side effects and questions about its effectiveness in […]

Hyderabad firm, US varsity developing coronavirus vaccine

HYDERABAD: Hyderabad-based vaccine maker Bharat Biotech and Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, USA, will work towards developing a new vaccine for Covid-19. The vaccine candidate was developed at the university in January using an existing deactivated rabies vaccine as a carrier for Coronavirus proteins. It recently completed preliminary tests in animal models and showed antibody […]

‘We’re expendable’: Russian doctors face hostility, mistrust amid coronavirus crisis

.MOSCOW: There are no daily public displays of gratitude for Russian doctors and nurses during the coronavirus crisis like there are in the West. Instead of applause, they face mistrust, low pay and even open hostility. Residents near the National Medical Research Center for Endocrinology, a Moscow hospital now treating virus patients, complained when they […]

Centre gives Rs 105.25 cr for Telangana ULBs

HYDERABAD: The Union Finance Ministry released `105.25 crore for the non-million plus cities in Telangana on Wednesday as per the recommendations of the Fifteenth Finance Commission (SFC). These grants should be distributed to all non-million plus urban local bodies (ULBs) by the State Finance Commission within 10 working days without any deduction. If the State […]

Tamannah Opens Up On Rs 2.5 Cr Remuneration

Tamannaah Bhatia says the remuneration an actress gets for working in a film is entirely her “prerogative to determine her financial worth”, adding that the choice to re-consider the remuneration also lies with her. “Remunerations is entirely an actresses’ prerogative to determine her financial worth and the choice of re-consideration on the remuneration rests finally […]

68 more COVID-19 cases in Andhra, ten have links to Chennai’s Koyambedu market

VIJAYAWADA: Andhra Pradesh recorded 68 more COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours of which 10 have links to Chennai’s Koyambedu market. Six people from Chittoor and four from Nellore with a travel history or contacts with those who returned from the Koyambedu market tested positive for the virus. With the new patients, the total […]

Actress Jahnavi shared that her house keeper tested positive for covid-19

Actress Janhvi Kapoor took to Instagram to share a an important alert message from her father honey Kapoor, after their house keeper tested positive for Covid-19. She also mentioned how her family would cope up with the unfortunate situation. Boney Kapoor who is a producer and film maker released a statement on social media that […]

France opposes Google, Apple setting terms, will build government-monitored COVID app

Paris: France, which has long been sceptical of the growing power of US Big Tech companies, is seeking to bypass Apple and Google for a smartphone app to help trace people infected with the novel coronavirus. The move, which leaves France relatively isolated in Europe alongside Britain and Norway, reflects differences on how such apps […]

Pakistan records 1,932 new coronavirus cases, 48 deaths

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan recorded 1,932 new cases of the novel coronavirus and 46 fatalities during the last 24 hours, taking the total number infections in the country to 45,898 with 985 deaths, the health ministry said on Wednesday. As many as 414,254 coronavirus tests have been conducted so far, it said, adding that 13,962 examinations were […]