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Beijing: From disinfection and street patrols to food and medicine delivery in quarantine wards, robots were being deployed at the front lines to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus, which has claimed hundreds of lives in China.…

Beijing: Doctor Li, who worked in a Wuhan hospital, was declared dead at 2.58 a.m. on Friday morning by Wuhan Central Hospital, just days after he said he was infected with coronavirus. Li was one of the whistle-blowers who alerted his…

Beijing: The death toll due to the fast-spreading novel coronavirus outbreak in China has increased to 636, authorities said on Friday, while the number of confirmed cases also rose to 31,161. Chinese health authorities said it received…

Tokyo: Japan's health ministry announced on Wednesday that at least 10 among 3,700 passengers on a cruise ship that had passed through Hong Kong and is stationed in quarantine in Yokohama had contracted a coronavirus strain that has killed…

Cuttack: The samples of the medical student from Odisha who had been suspected to have contacted the coronavirus  has returned from NIV Pune, and is negative. This comes as a major relief. It is noteworthy that, the student had written a…

Wuhan (China): A new hospital built for coronavirus patients in the Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicenter of the outbreak, is set to open on Monday, as authorities scramble to contain the fast-spreading epidemic. Built in under 10 days,…

Bhubaneswar: At least four swabs sent from Odisha to National Institute of Virology in Pune have found negative in the test for deadly Novel Coronavirus. Persons from whom the samples had been collected include three Chinese Contractors…

New Delhi: A second case of the novel coronavirus has been confirmed in Kerala, the Union Health Ministry said on Sunday. The patient has been kept in isolation and is currently stable and being closely monitored. The patient has a…

Manila: The Philippines on Sunday reported the country's first death from the novel coronavirus, making it the first country outside China to report a fatality. The victim was a 44-year-old Chinese male from the city of Wuhan, the…

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government on Friday constituted a task force for the management of suspected coronavirus cases and to take steps to ensure the prevention of the spread of the infection in the state. The high-level task force has…