coronavirus

PATNA—A school in Bihar has been shut after its principal was found infected with COVID-19 within four days of the education institutions getting opened in the state. Education department authorities said a high school in Bihar’s Gaya…
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PATNA—The state health department in Bihar has sought helps from the police to trace out the missing returnees from United Kingdom where a new strain of coronavirus was found. “Our officials found it difficult to trace some passengers…
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NEW DELHI—The Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) on Sunday granted approval to two COVID vaccines for their emergency use. With this, India has become the first country in the world to give approval for two vaccines at a time. The…
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PATNA—Bihar health minister Mangal Pandey on Saturday said all arrangements for COVID-19 vaccination had been completed and the vaccination process could start any day on centre’s instruction. He said the people willing vaccination would…
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PATNA—The Bihar health department is looking for 96 persons who returned to Patna in the last one month from United Kingdom which has reported a new highly contagious strain of COVID-19. A health department official has told the local…
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PATNA—Union minister of state for health and family welfare Ashwini Kumar Choubey has tested positive for COVID-19. The minister who represents Buxur LS seat in Bihar himself announced this through his Twitter handle and asked all those…
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PATNA—The Bihar government has decided to reopen education institutions and coaching institutes shut for the past nine months in the new year. They will be start functioning from January 4. A decision to this effect was taken at a…
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PATNA, INDIA—COVID-19 fears have cast its dark shadow over the world-famous Sonepur cattle fair of Bihar as well. It's for the first time after the Independence that the famous cattle fair won’t be organized in Sonepur at the confluence…
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PATNA—The state government in Bihar on Thursday issued fresh guidelines for organizing wedding and such events in view of the rising coronavirus cases in the state. As per the new guideline, a maximum of 100 persons can attend a wedding…
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PATNA—When the Opposition parties sought for postponement of assembly elections in Bihar in August this year citing how this could prove disastrous for the state in view of corona pandemic, the ruling NDA mocked them. They alleged the…
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