Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Aug 18 (ANI): Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday asked officials to increase testing in the state and take the count of count of RT-PCR and antigen tests for COVID-19 to 1.25 lakh every day.
Guwahati (Assam) [India], August 18 (ANI): With no new deaths reported in Assam due to the floods in the past three days, the number of people who have lost their lives to the deluge stands at 112. However, the number of affected people has increased in as many days to 56,91,694.
Brasilia [Brazil], Aug 18 (ANI/Sputnik): Brazil's number of COVID-19 cases has increased by more than 19,000 over the past 24 hours, down from some 23,000 the day before, with over 600 deaths, the country's health ministry said in a statement.
New Delhi [India], Aug 18 (ANI): The Indian Railways on Tuesday clarified that the increase in the cost of platform tickets by Pune junction has been done to dissuade people from coming unnecessarily onto the platforms and to ensure social distancing is followed amid the ongoing COVID-19 cri
Washington D.C. [USA], Aug 18 (ANI): A team of researchers discovered that use of antibiotics with a greater spectrum of microbial coverage may be associated with an increased risk of new-onset inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and its subtypes ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease.
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], Aug 18 (ANI): Expressing possibility that large scale cultivation will take place during this rainy season, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao instructed the Agriculture department to keep adequate stock of fertilisers to meet the increase in its dema
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], Aug 17 (ANI): Odisha government has ramped up COVID-19 testing to more than 50,000 tests per day and intended to further increase the testing number in a phased manner.
New Delhi [India], August 17 (ANI): Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan on Monday expressed confidence that the government will achieve the goal of tuberculosis (TB) free India by 2025 as resource allocation for the disease has witnessed a four-fold increase in the last five years.
Brasilia [Brazil], August 17 (ANI/Sputnik): More than 23,000 new coronavirus cases were confirmed in Brazil in the past 24 hours, while the death toll increased by over 600 in that period, according to the latest data from the Health Ministry.
New Delhi [India], Aug 16 (ANI): To transport fly ash to cement plants located at distance, NTPC Limited has developed infrastructure at Rihand project in Uttar Pradesh, informed the central public sector unit (PSU) on Sunday.
Idukki (Kerala) [India], Aug 16 (ANI): The death toll in the Rajamala landslide has increased to 58 after two more bodies were recovered on Sunday, according to an official statement of the Idukki District Information Office.