Worldwide coronavirus death toll crosses 2 lakh-mark
World | Apr 25, 2020, 09:43 PM ISTOn Saturday, the global death toll reached the 2-lakh mark. USA continues to be the new epicentre of coronavirus pandemic.
On Saturday, the global death toll reached the 2-lakh mark. USA continues to be the new epicentre of coronavirus pandemic.
Pakistan's coronavirus cases rose to more than 6,300 on Wednesday, as a top minister said it is a "difficult situation" for the government which is fighting war at different fronts including COVID-19, poverty, hunger and weak economy.
Storms that killed more than 30 people in the Southeast, piling fresh misery atop a pandemic, spread across the eastern United States on Monday, leaving more than 1 million homes and businesses without power amid floods and mudslides.
18 fresh cases of the deadly coronavirus have been reported in West Bengal on Sunday. This brings the total tally of the state to 152. Till now, 7 people have lost their lives and 29 have been treated. Meanwhile, Kolkata had the highest number of COVID-19 cases at 29 confirmed infections.
With 2,108 coronavirus deaths in the past 24 hours, the United States became the first country to record over 2,000 fatalities in a single day. The COVID-19 death toll in America, hence, reached 18,693 on Friday.
With 183 cases reported in the last 24 hours, the highest jump so far, Delhi's tally of coronavirus cases crossed the 900-mark, while the containment zones declared by authorities to curb the spread of the disease rose to 30.
The death count from coronavirus rose to five in West Bengal. On tuesday the death of COVID-19 infected women triggered demonstrations by nurses of a state-run hospital who alleged that the authorities had refused to keep her in isolation.
A man infected with the coronavirus died at a hospital in West Bengals Howrah district, taking the total number of COVID-19 deaths to three in the state on Tuesday. The man had recently travelled to the northern part of the state.
The death toll due to COVID-19 in India rose to 16 on Thursday and the number of positive cases increased by nearly 90 to 694, according to the health ministry.
The Iraqi Health Ministry has confirmed two more deaths from COVID-19 and 30 new cases, bringing the total number of the infected to 346.
Global death toll for coronavirus has surged pass the 9,000 mark as over 220,000 cases have been reported worldwide. The virus that originated in China has now found its roots in other parts of the world. Europe has been tipped as the new epicenter for the disease. Italy, Spain, Germany and the UK have all seen growing number of coronavirus cases in the last few weeks.
Iran's Ministry of Health and Medical Education on Tuesday announced that the number of COVID-19 cases in the country has climbed to 16,169 with the death toll reaching 988, Xinhua reported.
The death toll due to the COVID-19 outbreak in China has increased to 3,226, authorities said on Tuesday, while the number of confirmed cases in the Asian country has risen to 80,881.
Five people were killed and seven injured when an avalanche hit a hill station in Pakistan's Abbottabad district. The avalanche hit on Tuesday night, reported the Xinhua news agency.
Japan on Wednesday cancelled several prayer meetings to mark the ninth anniversary of a powerful earthquake-triggered tsunami in wake of the coronovirus outbreak.
Most of the cases are in China, but its proportion is shrinking as the caseload grows elsewhere. A total of 59,905 people have been recovered from the disease in China and globally, the number is more than 60,000.
Rescuers searched through shattered Tennessee neighborhoods for bodies Tuesday, less than a day after tornadoes ripped across Nashville and other parts of the state as families slept. At least 24 people were killed, some in their beds, authorities said.
Four people were killed and five injured when their pick-up van overturned in Chhattisgarh's Bastar district on Monday, police said.
The death toll in the riot-hit northeast Delhi has surged to 46 after four people who were being treated at a hospital succumbed to injuries. As per reports, 38 people were admitted at Guru Teg Bahadur (GTB) hospital, 3 were at Lok Nayak Hospital, 1 at Jag Parvesh Chander Hospital and 4 at Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital.
The outbreak of COVID-19 in Iran has affected 987 people, of which 54 had died so far, the Ministry of Health and Medical Education announced on Sunday.
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