Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], April 4 (ANI): Actor Akshay Kumar on Sunday informed that he has contracted COVID-19 and is currently 'under home quarantine'.
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], March 25 (ANI): AICC National Spokesperson Sravan Dasoju on Thursday alleged that exorbitant rates are being charged by private hospitals and diagnostics centres for COVID-19 tests and demanded Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao to immediately curtail them.
Washington [US], March 25 (ANI): American stand-up comedian Dave Chappelle is heading to Connecticut for a set of shows and the comedian is requiring audience members to get rapid COVID-19 tests before entry.
New Delhi [India], March 25 (ANI): Actor R Madhavan has tested positive for COVID-19. The actor shared the news on social media with a hillarious post mentioning his hit film '3 Idiots'.
New Delhi [India], March 18 (ANI): As country witnessing a continuous surge in COVID-19 cases in many of its states, India has tested over 23 crores coronavirus samples till Thursday.
Patna (Bihar) [India], March 17 (ANI): Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday said that the state government has decided to increase the number of daily COVID-19 tests to 70,000 again.
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], March 17 (ANI): Amid the rising COVID-19 cases across the country, the Karnataka government on Wednesday informed that the daily tests of COVID-19 will be increased to one lakh in the state.
Birmingham [UK], March 17 (ANI): The start of All England Open Badminton Championships 2021 has been delayed after several COVID-19 tests conducted were deemed "inconclusive", the Badminton World Federation (BWF) said on Wednesday.
Washington DC [US], March 10 (ANI): 340 different coronavirus tests have so far won emergency use authorisation (EUA), including one that can be used at home without a prescription to detect the virus, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has said.
Tokyo [Japan], March 2 (ANI): Expressing concerns over the coronavirus testing methods, Japan has requested China not to subject Japanese citizens to anal COVID-19 tests after receiving complaints of "psychological distress" from some of them.
New Delhi [India], February 22 (ANI): India on Monday crossed a record number of 21.15 COVID-19 tests in the country, with the addition of 6,20,216 tests conducted in the last 24 hours.
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], February 12 (ANI): Punjab Health and Family Welfare Minister Balbir Singh Sidhu on Friday issued instructions to all civil surgeons to implement strictly COVID appropriate behaviours and keep testing for COVID-19 at least 1000 per million populations.