COVID-19 recovery rate in India improves to 63.92 %

This has taken the total number of recovered cases to 8,85,576. Union Health Ministry said, the recovery rate has reached 63.92 per cent. The gap between recovered patients and active COVID-19 cases has further increased to over 4,17,000. The recovered cases are 1.89 times the active cases.  The Ministry has advised all State and Union … Read more

First container train from India reaches Bangladesh

The arrival of the container train is the culmination of the process that started in 2017 when an MoU was signed between Container Corporation of India and the Bangladesh Container Company Ltd. The trial run of the first container train from Kolkata to Bangabandhusetu West station (BBW) took place in April 2018. India and Bangladesh have … Read more

Number of confirmed Coronavirus cases worldwide cross 16 million mark

Russia has recorded 5,765 new Coronavirus cases and 77 more deaths today. Russia’s Coronavirus crisis response center said, the nationwide tally of infections has risen to 8,12,485.  In France, the health authorities are making COVID-19 tests available free of charge without preion as they closely monitor an uptick in infections after the lifting of lockdown … Read more

Prime Minister Narendra Modi to launch high throughput COVID-19 testing facilities tomorrow

These three high-throughput testing facilities have been set up strategically at ICMR-National Institute of Cancer Prevention and Research, Noida, ICMR-National Institute for Research in Reproductive Health, Mumbai and ICMR-National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, Kolkata. They will be able to test over 10,000 samples a day.   These labs will also reduce turn-around-time and … Read more