COVID-19 toll

Danish Siddiqui, three others win Pulitzer for harrowing pictures of India's Covid deaths

Reuters photographer Danish Siddiqui was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer along with Adnan Abidi, Sanna Irshad Mattoo, and Amit Dave for their images of Covid's toll on India

May 10, 2022, 07:51 AM IST

Don't make data of children orphaned due to COVID-19 public: UP child right's body

According to data received from various states, at least 9346 children have lost at least one of their parents to the deadly virus, including over 1700 who have lost both their parents. 

Jun 03, 2021, 19:32 PM IST

WHO hopes COVID-19 pandemic ends within 2 years, says chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus described COVID-19 as a once-in-a-century health crisis and said that while globalisation had allowed the virus to spread quicker than the flu did in 1918, there was also now the technology to stop it that hadn't been available a century ago.

Aug 22, 2020, 06:34 AM IST