Ranchi (Jharkhand) [India], March 20 (ANI): The Jharkhand Health Department has decided to give a month's extra pay to frontline health workers who have been working round the clock since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, said Jharkhand Health Minister Banna Gupta on Friday.
Manila [The Philippines], March 19 (ANI/Xinhua): The Philippines' Department of Health (DOH) reported on Friday 7,103 new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) infections, the highest daily jump since the disease emerged in the Southeast Asian country in January 2020, raising the total to 648,066.
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], March 19 (ANI/PNN): Since last year, a lot of highly-anticipated films got derailed due to the corona pandemic crisis the Covid-19 Pandemic and this includes the country's first Indo-Polish action thriller, No Means No directed by Indian filmmaker Vikash Verma.
New Delhi [India], March 16 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Bangladesh on March 26 and 27 on his first visit to a foreign country since the outbreak of the COVID pandemic.
Tokyo [Japan], March 14 (ANI/Sputnik): Some 77,000 chickens will be culled in the Japanese prefecture of Tochigi due to a new outbreak of highly pathogenic bird flu, Japanese media reported on Saturday.
Addis Ababa [Ethopia], March 12 (ANI/Sputnik): There are widespread concerns that overcrowding at refugee centers and lack of health facilities will drive disease outbreaks in Ethiopia's conflict-torn Tigray region, a UNICEF spokesman told Sputnik.
Tokyo [Japan], March 10 (ANI/Xinhua): Tokyo on Wednesday reported 340 new daily COVID-19 cases, bringing the capital's tally since the outbreak of the pandemic here to 114,201.
New Delhi [India], March 10 (ANI): Almost a year after the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic which saw several lockdowns, Bharatiya Janata Party will hold a meeting of its parliamentary party on Wednesday.
Sao Paulo [Brazil], March 8 (ANI/Xinhua): Brazil reported an accumulative 11,019,344 COVID-19 cases as of Sunday amid a second wave of the outbreak of the disease, the Brazilian Ministry of Health said.
New Delhi [India], March 1 (ANI/NewsVoir): As a huge number of street dogs died due to the canine Parvovirus in West Bengal, the New Delhi-based Company Panav Bio-Tech which is the importer and marketer of 'Canglob P', hyperimmune immunoglobulins for Parvovirus, said there is a sudden increa
Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradesh) [India], March 1 (ANI): Private and government primary schools across Uttar Pradesh greeted students of Classes 1 to 5 with balloons and flowers as they reopened on Monday, nearly a year after they were closed due to the outbreak of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], February 27 (ANI): Amid the COVID-19 outbreak, lakhs of devotees took part in the auspicious Attukal Pongala on Saturday.