Singapore, May 19, (ANI): Singapore's Ministry of Health (MOH) on Tuesday said that there is no truth in the references in reports in a section of Indian media about the presence of a new variant of coronavirus in the country, adding that there is no "Singapore variant".
Muscat [Oman], May 18 (ANI/Xinhua): The Omani health ministry on Tuesday announced 812 new COVID-19 cases, raising the total confirmed number in the sultanate to 207,109, the official Oman News Agency (ONA) reported.
Jakarta [Indonesia], May 18 (ANI/Xinhua): The COVID-19 cases in Indonesia rose by 4,185 within one day to 1,748,230, with the death toll adding by 172 to 48,477, the Health Ministry said on Tuesday.
New Delhi [India], May 18 (ANI): Delhi continued to see a drop in COVID-19 cases with the city seeing 4,482 new cases in the last 24 hours. This is the lowest number of new cases since April 5 when the metropolis had reported 3,548 new cases.
Tel Aviv [Israel], May 18 (ANI/Sputnik): The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on Tuesday that there was an attempted attack against Israeli servicemen in the West Bank city of Hebron, with the assailant subsequently neutralized.
Washington [US], May 18 (ANI): American singer and Priyanka Chopra's husband Nick Jonas shared his health update on the recent episode of the reality show 'The Voice' after reports of him getting hospitalised due to a severe injury on the sets of a shoot broke on Saturday.
Tokyo [Japan], May 18 (ANI): Japan's economy contracted in the first quarter of this year as a resurgence in Covid-19 infections and second state of emergency undercut consumer spending, reports said on Tuesday.
Indore (Madhya Pradesh) [India], May 17 (ANI): Amid the rising cases of black fungus infection in Indore, there is an acute shortage of Amphotericin injections in the city.
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], May 17 (ANI): Amid reports of stone pelting by TMC workers who gathered outside the CBI office after the arrest of ministers Firhad Hakim, Subrata Mukherjee, and MLA Madan Mitra by the CBI in connection with the Narada scam, West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhan
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], May 17 (ANI): Colgate Palmolive India on Monday reported 54 per cent growth in its net profit at Rs 315 crore for the quarter ended March as compared to Rs 204 crore in the same quarter of the previous fiscal.
New Delhi [India], May 17 (ANI): Amid reports of oxygen shortage during the second wave of COVID-19, the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) said it will procure one lakh oxygen concentrators based on its understanding of global supply chain and logistics.