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COVID-19: In India cases rise to 49,391
COVID-19: In India cases rise to 49,391

Wed May 06 2020 | By Cobrapost Desk

In India the death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 1,694 and the number of cases climbed to 49,391 on Wednesday, registering an increase of 126 deaths and 2,958 cases in the last 24 h...

Maharashtra  seeks Central facilities to ramp up ICU beds
Maharashtra seeks Central facilities to ramp up ICU beds

Wed May 06 2020 | By Cobrapost Desk

Maharashtra government has requested the hospitals under the Railways, the Army and other Central undertakings to make their facilities in the state available to the government whi...

Italians claim world's first coronavirus vaccine
Italians claim world's first coronavirus vaccine

Wed May 06 2020 | By Cobrapost Desk

Italians are claiming they have made the world's first coronavirus vaccine that work on humans, Science Times reported on Tuesday."According to the tests carried out at Rome's infe...

India records its biggest single-day spike in coronavirus cases
India records its biggest single-day spike in coronavirus cases

Tue May 05 2020 | By Cobrapost Desk

India has seen its largest ever one-day jump in Covid-19, both in terms of cases and fatalities, with 195 people succumbing to the illness in the space of 24 hours and 3,900 new in...

Israel isolates coronavirus antibody
Israel isolates coronavirus antibody

Tue May 05 2020 | By Cobrapost Desk

Israel has isolated a key coronavirus antibody at its main biological research laboratory, the Israeli defence minister said on Monday, calling the step a “significant breakthrough...

Chinese report warns Beijing faces Tiananmen-like global backlash over virus
Chinese report warns Beijing faces Tiananmen-like global backlash over virus

Tue May 05 2020 | By Cobrapost Desk

An internal Chinese report warns that Beijing faces a rising wave of hostility in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak that could tip relations with the United States into confront...

COVID-19: Three Russian doctors fall from hospital windows
COVID-19: Three Russian doctors fall from hospital windows

Tue May 05 2020 | By Cobrapost Desk

Three frontline health care workers have mysteriously fallen out of hospital windows in Russia over the past two weeks, heightening public attention to the working conditions for d...

COVID-19 causes blood clots harming organs
COVID-19 causes blood clots harming organs

Tue May 05 2020 | By Cobrapost Desk

An undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, yellow, emerging from the sur...

Delhi should allow only minimum relaxations: Dr Harsh Vardhan
Delhi should allow only minimum relaxations: Dr Harsh Vardhan

Mon May 04 2020 | By Cobrapost Desk

Delhi should allow "only minimum relaxations" and stringent measures are required to tackle the highly contagious coronavirus in the city, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said ...

Reliance to sell $750 million stake in unit to Silver Lake
Reliance to sell $750 million stake in unit to Silver Lake

Mon May 04 2020 | By Cobrapost Desk

Reliance Industries Ltd said on Monday private equity firm Silver Lake will invest nearly $750 million in its digital arm, days after securing a $5.7 billion investment from Facebo...

Queue for liquor as Delhi eases some coronavirus curbs
Queue for liquor as Delhi eases some coronavirus curbs

Mon May 04 2020 | By Cobrapost Desk

In New Delhi hundreds of people queued outside liquor stores on Monday as the Indian capital began easing some curbs after a 40-day lockdown against the coronavirus, while some off...

COVID-19: CIA & MI6 put together 'scientific' dossier
COVID-19: CIA & MI6 put together 'scientific' dossier

Mon May 04 2020 | By Cobrapost Desk

As per news report of RT.COM, The West’s wish to pin the blame on China for the Covid-19 pandemic has been reportedly incarnated in a 15-page dossier compiled by intelligence agenc...

COVID-19 : Tanzanian president promises to import herbal tonic
COVID-19 : Tanzanian president promises to import herbal tonic

Mon May 04 2020 | By Cobrapost Desk

The president of Tanzania, John Magufuli, is sending a plane to Madagascar to fetch a herbal tonic touted as a cure for Covid-19 even as the World Health Organization (WHO) warned ...

COVID-19: Biggest 24-Hour Spike In Coronavirus Deaths
COVID-19: Biggest 24-Hour Spike In Coronavirus Deaths

Sun May 03 2020 | By Cobrapost Desk

India reported the biggest single-day jump in the number of coronavirus patients with 2,644 new cases in the last 24 hours, including 83 deaths - also the highest - taking the tota...

J&K : Colonel, Major among 5 personnel martyred in encounter
J&K : Colonel, Major among 5 personnel martyred in encounter

Sun May 03 2020 | By Cobrapost Desk

An Army Colonel and a Major were among five security personnel martyred in an encounter at a village in Handwara in north Kashmir that also saw the elimination of two terrorists, o...

Tablighi Jamaat role was most condemnable: Yogi
Tablighi Jamaat role was most condemnable: Yogi

Sun May 03 2020 | By Cobrapost Desk

Holding the Tablighi Jamaat responsible for the spread of COVID-19, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday said that being infected with a virus is not a crime bu...

To help fight coronavirus 88 medical staff to be flown from India to UAE
To help fight coronavirus 88 medical staff to be flown from India to UAE

Sun May 03 2020 | By Cobrapost Desk

The UAE Embassy in India announced on Saturday that Indian authorities had permitted 88 doctors and nurses to travel to the UAE to help with efforts to beat coronavirus....

Aarogya Setu App Must For All Employees
Aarogya Setu App Must For All Employees

Sat May 02 2020 | By Cobrapost Desk

The Home Ministry has clarified on making the coronavirus tracker app Aarogya Setu mandatory for all private and government employees across the country. Anyone attending office an...

Countries must be ready for virus to jump back: WHO
Countries must be ready for virus to jump back: WHO

Sat May 02 2020 | By Cobrapost Desk

Countries must lift lockdowns gradually, while still being “on the look-out” for COVID-19 and ready to restore restrictions if the virus jumps back, the World Health Organization (...

UAE sends medical aid to India
UAE sends medical aid to India

Sat May 02 2020 | By Cobrapost Desk

The UAE has sent an aid plane containing seven metric tons of medical supplies to India to bolster the country’s efforts to curb the spread of COVID-19, Emirates News Agency report...