Tag: covid19

Jagan’s ex-advisor trying his best to enter Congress party

K Rama Chandra Murthy, ex-journalist and former advisor to the Andhra Pradesh government on public policy recently resigned to his post which used to fetch him nearly 3.6 lakhs per month. Rama Chandra’s decision really surprised everyone in the media field as there is no way that any media house can hire him as the […]

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh lauds Russian scientists for developing COVID-19 vaccine

MOSCOW: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday congratulated the government and people of Russia for successfully controlling the coronavirus outbreak in the country and lauded its scientists for developing a vaccine against the deadly disease. President Vladimir Putin last month announced that Russian scientists had developed the world’s first vaccine against COVID-19, Sputnik-V. He said […]

COVID-19: Not all classrooms can reopen, concedes France Education Minister

PARIS: Not all French classrooms can safely reopen Tuesday, the education minister acknowledged Sunday, amid a persistent rise in coronavirus infections that is threatening the government’s push to get France’s 12.9 million schoolchildren back in class. “It’s being decided by a day-by-day analysis based on the health situation of each territory,” Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer […]

Dynamic director tests Covid-19 -ve, to start shoot from tomorrow

Dynamic Telugu director, Teja had tested positive for Covid-19 a couple of weeks back and has been undergoing relevant treatment. The latest we hear is that he has tested negative for Covid-19. Teja has fully recovered from coronavirus and is already geared up to start working on his current projects. It is known that Teja […]

Coronavirus: Andhra Pradesh Rises To No 2 Spot

Covid-19 cases in Andhra Pradesh crossed 4.14 lakh on Saturday as 10,548 more people tested positive while 82 fresh fatalities pushed the death toll to 3,796. With over 10,000 cases for a fourth consecutive day, the state’s tally mounted to 4,14,164. Andhra Pradesh has overtaken Tamil Nadu to become the second-worst affected state in terms […]

Atchen Granted Bail After 76 Days

Senior TDP legislator and former minister K Atchan Naidu was at last granted bail by the AP high court on Friday, in the sensational multi-crore Employees State Insurance scam. Atchan, who was arrested in connection with the multi-crore Employees State Insurance scam on June 12, has been undergoing treatment at NRI Hospitals in Mangalagiri in […]

Pranab Mukherjee In ‘deep coma’

Former President Pranab Mukherjee continued to be in a deep coma and on ventilator support, said the Army Hospital (R&R), Delhi Cantt here on Thursday. “Pranab Mukherjee continues to be in deep coma and on ventilator support. He is being treated for lung infection and renal dysfunction. He is haemodynamically stable,” read the statement by […]

People Will Rush To Theatres: Rajamouli

Theatres are all set to open and it is expected that audiences and movie lovers will be forming a queue in front of the theatres. But with the number of COVID-19 positive cases seeing a spike with each passing in India, would the public still want to come to the theatres? Will, the box office […]

WHO says plasma therapy to treat coronavirus still ‘experimental’

GENEVA: The World Health Organization says using plasma from the recovered to treat COVID-19 is still considered an “experimental” therapy and that the preliminary results showing it may work are still “inconclusive.” US President Donald Trump on Sunday approved an emergency authorization of convalescent plasma for COVID-19 patients. WHO’s chief scientist Dr. Soumya Swaminathan said […]

Row erupts over T Guv’s fresh attack on state’s Covid response

Telangana Governor, Dr Tamilisai Soundararajan’s comments on the state government’s handling of Covid-19 situation has ignited a fresh row with the ruling TRS finding fault with her and the opposition parties defending her. While the defence by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was expected, what came as a big surprise was the main opposition Congress […]

Has India Reached The Peak Of The Pandemic? – Prof K Nageshwar

India’s recovery rate has now reached 75 percent. Earlier, the State Bank of India research estimated that the daily new cases will reach the peak if the recovery rate touches 75 percent. Given this prediction, obviously the question arose on whether India has reached its pandemic peak or not. But, the SBI research is the […]

Telangana COVID-19 cases cross 1 lakh-mark; situation in districts worrisome

HYDERABAD: The need for Covid-19 testing has been stressed by various health agencies across the world. As Telangana increased testing and conducted the highest number of tests in a day on Friday (43,095), it also recorded the highest single-day spike of 2,474 new cases. On Saturday, the State conducted 40,666 tests and detected 2,384 new […]

SP Balasubrahmanyam tests negative for coronavirus

SP Charan on Monday in a statement confirmed that his father SP Balasubrahmanyam, who has been hospitalized since August 5 in Chennai, has tested negative for the coronavirus. The legendary singer was hospitalized after he tested for the coronavirus. On August 14, his health deteriorated and he had to be shifted to the intensive care […]

US nasal vaccine against COVID-19 prevents infection in mice: Study

WASHINGTON: Scientists have developed a vaccine that targets the SARS-CoV-2 virus, can be given in one dose via the nose and is effective in preventing infection in mice susceptible to the novel coronavirus. The investigators next plan to test the vaccine in nonhuman primates and humans to see if it is safe and effective in […]

1,967 new cases in Telangana; state crosses 99,000-mark

HYDERABAD: Telangana recorded 1,967 fresh Covid-19 cases on Thursday, taking the State tally to 99,391. Eight more deaths were also recorded on the day, taking the toll to 737. Over 26,767 samples were tested and 1,781 patients were discharged from hospitals, taking the number of recoveries to 79,967. The State has 21,687 active cases. Of […]