India reported 437 new Covid-19 cases between March 31 and April 1. The Covid-19 death toll in India climbed to 50 on Thursday, the health ministry stated. The total number of coronavirus cases in the country to now stands at 1965 including 1764 active cases, 150 recoveries and 50 deaths. While Maharashtra […]
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Stopped from distributing food during Covid-19 lockdown, Bengal BJP leaders target TMC
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Sabyasachi Dutta has accused the ruling Trinamool Congress of not letting the opposition help people after he was stopped by the police from distributing food during the Covid-19 lockdown, saying chief minister Mamata Banerjee was doing the same. Dutta, a former mayor of Salt Lake, […]
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Covid-19: Donald Trump resists national shutdown, leaving it up to states
President Donald Trump is resisting calls to issue a national stay-at-home order to stem the spread of the new coronavirus despite his administration’s projections that tens of thousands of Americans are likely to be killed by the disease. One by one, though, states are increasingly pushing shutdown orders of their […]
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Coronavirus update: Canadian PM Justin Trudeau calls emergency Parliament session to pass legislation on Covid-19
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has sought an emergency session of the country’s Parliament to pass legislation required for measures to counter the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. The focus of the session will be on a stimulus package to help workers and businesses survive the devastating blow from the […]
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Coronavirus update: US agrees to buy ventilators, medical supplies from Russia
The US has agreed to buy from Russia ventilators, medical supplies and other personal protection equipment needed to treat patients infected with Covid-19, a top official has said, as the country wrestles with the coronavirus pandemic that the White House has warned could kill up to two lakh people during […]
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Coronavirus Update: Six-week-old infant dies of Covid-19 in US
A six-week-old infant has died of complications relating to COVID-19, the governor of the US state of Connecticut said Wednesday, in one of the youngest recorded deaths from the virus. Governor Ned Lamont tweeted that the newborn was “brought unresponsive to a hospital late last week and could not be […]
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Coronavirus pandemic could shrink global economy almost 1% in 2020: UN Report
The global economy could shrink almost 1% this year due to the new coronavirus, a sharp reversal from the pre-pandemic forecast of 2.5% growth, the United Nations said Wednesday. The U.N. Department of Economic and Social Affairs warned in a report that the decline could be even deeper if restrictions […]
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Aggressive testing to begin near Nizamuddin
Nizamuddin, in the heart of Delhi, will see health workers from the integrated diseases surveillance programme start going door-to-door from Thursday as they seek to track and contain cases of Covid-19 in what has emerged the latest and biggest cluster of the coronavirus disease in the country. Cases of Covid-19 […]
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Covid-19 update: RBI steps up relief measures
The central bank on Wednesday announced steps to help states cope with the fallout of the covid-19 pandemic, including allowing a higher borrowing limit. This also acknowledges the states’ frontline role in mitigating the impact of the pandemic. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has increased the borrowing limit of […]
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Covid-19 update: Railways plans isolation, quarantine units with 80,000 beds
As part of efforts to scale up the medical infrastructure across the country in view of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, the railways is setting up isolation and quarantine facilities with 80,000 beds for positive and suspected cases of the disease, the government said on Wednesday. The announcement came amid fears […]
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China shielding top cities from 2nd wave
Facing a second wave of Covid-19 infections, China has taken strong steps to shield Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou from the disease by enforcing a compulsory quarantine of 14 days on people entering these cities; cancelling all visa and residence permits; and allowing only one inbound flight per foreign airline every […]
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Dargah Aala Hazrat seeks ban on Tablighi Jamaat
Dargah Aala Hazrat seeks ban on Tablighi Jamaat Bareilly (Uttar Pradesh), April 1 (IANS) The Dargah Aala Hazrat Trust has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Ministers for Home and External Affairs and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, demanding immediate ban on Tablighi Jamaat for continuing with its Markaz […]
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Tablighi Jamaat attendees misbehave with staffers, spit at doctors at Delhi quarantine units
Some of the 160-odd Tablighi Jamaat attendees quarantined at a railway facility in southeast Delhi “misbehaved” with and “even spit” at doctors and healthcare personnel attending to them, a railway spokesperson said on Wednesday. A total of 167 attendees were taken to the makeshift quarantine centres set up on the […]
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Here is your horoscope for 2 April, 2020
Aries With the Moon in your solar fourth house in the first part of the day, dear Aries, it’s best to enjoy some release of ambitions, tension, or pressure. The trick is to allow yourself the luxury! In the second half of the day, the Moon enters the area of […]
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Protective equipment scarcity a concern as Covid-19 infects 7 doctors
Five more doctors tested positive for Covid-19 in the past week in the national capital, taking the total to seven, and underscoring how leading the war against the virus from the front is coming at a huge personal cost for doctors and health workers who often operate with inadequate protective […]