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A man walks past a statue representing a mans head wearing a facemask to raise awareness about recommended precautions in Hyderabad. (AFP)

Central team in Hyderabad to assess COVID-19 situation

The team began their assesment by inspecting the Gachibowli stadium, which has been converted into a COVID-19 hospital...

25 April 2020 4:56 PM IST

Representational Image. (AP)

Chennai Corporation declines reburial of Covid victim's body

The family was forced to bury the body in a different cemetery due to the protests by locals

25 April 2020 4:29 PM IST

Health staff screen women for influenza-like symptoms of coronavirus infection. (DC Photo: Satish B)

Karnataka begins trials of plasma therapy for Covid-19 patients

ICMR has given permission for a line of treatment that holds out some hope

25 April 2020 3:02 PM IST

Police personnel in Vizag are cracking down hard on youngsters roaming outside. Several youngsters were detained and their bikes were seized near the Jodugudulapalem junction in Visakhapatnam on Wednesday. (DC Photo)

Andhra Pradesh goes from 0 to 1,000 in six weeks

The positive sign is that cases continue to come from old clusters rather than new breakout points

25 April 2020 2:16 PM IST

The chartered flight carrying Prasad Das and family reached the airport from where he was taken to the hospital in a specially arranged ambulance. (Image released by Aster MIMS Hospital)

Kerala airlifts sick expat from UK amid lockdown

Seeking treatment became difficult for the Kozhikode native as UK hospitals are currently filled with virus emergencies

25 April 2020 1:02 PM IST

Medical staff accompany a woman (R, bottom), who was healed from the coronavirus (COVID-19) after having spend more than a month in a coma, upon her discharge from the hospital in the city of Ariana near the capital Tunis. AFP Photo

Amid rising death toll, FDA warns of the side effects of...

COVID-19 death toll in India rises to 775 as the number of cases climb to 24,506, Health Ministry says

25 April 2020 12:35 PM IST

A medic checks the temperature of a stranded student from Kota upon her arrival, during the nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus, in Indore. PTI Photo

Hot spot Indore's death rate rises to 5.25 per cent as toll reaches to...

The number of coronavirus positive patients in the city has gone up to 1,085 after 56 more people tested positive in the...

25 April 2020 12:02 PM IST

113 families have contributed 43 per cent of the overall disease load in Telangana

44 families infect 260 in Hyderabad

Health minister Etala Rajender said that the hotspots were in the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation area Suryapet,...

25 April 2020 11:52 AM IST

Representational image (PTI)

Rajasthan's Covid-19 tally mounts to 2,059

Jaipur continues to remain the worst-affected with 777 cases

25 April 2020 11:32 AM IST

Fire fighters spray disinfectants in the wake of Coronavirus pandemic. (Photo: Pritam Bandyopadhyay)

Complete shutdown for Chennai and four other cities in Tamil Nadu

Till date, Tamil Nadu has 1,755 confirmed COVID-19 cases and Chennai topped the list with 452 infected people

25 April 2020 10:42 AM IST

: People sit in painted circles maintaining social distancing as they wait for their turn to collect relief material during a nationwide lockdown in the wake of coronavirus pandemic, in Hyderabad. PTI Photo

Beneficiaries in Hyderabad selling charity grains back to shops for...

Some shops are buying such ration for paltry sums, while some are turning such people away

25 April 2020 9:09 AM IST

A biologist prepares a sample collected for COVID-19

Infant contracts coronavirus from nurse in Hyderabad

The nurse, who did not show Covid-19 symptoms, interacted with her neighbours as she was asymptomatic

25 April 2020 9:08 AM IST