The football fans all around the globe were in for a treat after live action resumed on Saturday with Borussia Dortmund taking on Schalke in the first Bundesliga match in two months. But with the coronavirus restrictions and protocols in place, the football was not much the same as the […]
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Odisha tribal walks 160 kilometres with two kids on sling amid Covid-19 lockdown
Daily wage labourer Rupaya Tudu left his home in Odisha’s Mayurbhanj district to work in a brick kiln in Jajpur district, 160 kilometres away with his family. When he walked back home following the Covid-19 lockdown, Tudu shouldered not just the burden of feeding his family but his two sons on […]
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India’s Covid-19 tally crosses 90,000-mark; death toll at 2,872
India recorded the highest single-day spike in Covid-19 infections with 4,987 new cases in the last 24 hours as the national tally crossed the 90,000-mark on Saturday, according to the Union health ministry. The jump in the number of Covid-19 cases comes on the last day of the third round […]
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Highest single day spike as Gujarat crosses 10,000 mark, amid slow response
Gujarat became on Saturday the third Indian state to record 10,000 Covid-19 infections, reaching the milestone in 58 days. According to state health department data, 350 cases on an average have been reported every day in May as compared with 143 infections a day in April. On Saturday night, the […]
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Gujarat Chief Minister formulates action plan for Ahmedabad amid Covid-19 crisis
Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani on Saturday held a high-level meeting via video conferencing after which it was decided to carry out health check-ups and surveillance in 10 wards of the Covid-19 containment zones in Ahmedabad within the next 15 days. “Following the increasing cases of Covid-19 in Ahmedabad, the chief minister […]
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Mathematical modeling suggests containment of Covid-19 possible
Mathematical modeling studies suggest containment of Covid-19 might be possible but success of containment operations “cannot be guaranteed” since there is efficient human to human transmission, the Union health ministry said on Saturday. It also said there is no approved drug or vaccine for the treatment of Covid-19 as of […]
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US FDA suspends Bill Gates-backed at-home Covid-19 testing program
An at-home coronavirus testing project in Seattle backed in part by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation said on Saturday it was working with U.S. regulators to resume the program after being suspended by the Food and Drug Administration. The Seattle Coronavirus Assessment Network (SCAN), which aims to monitor the […]
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87 from Tripura stranded abroad due to Covid-19 to be brought back to India
Eighty-seven people from Tripura, who are stranded in Russia, Ukraine and Bangladesh due to the ban on international travel amid the coronavirus pandemic, would be among the nearly 400 people from different northeastern states to be brought back to India, Tripura’s law minister Ratan Lal Nath said on Saturday. Among […]
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Italy taking calculated risk in rolling back Covid lockdown, says PM Conte
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said on Saturday Italy was taking a calculated risk in rolling back lockdown measures from next week as the daily death toll from the Covid-19 pandemic fell to its lowest since March 9. “We’re facing a calculated risk, knowing that the epidemiological curve could rise […]
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Covid-19: Brazil overtakes Spain, becomes the fourth-most infected country
Brazil added more cases after a record number of infections Friday, overtaking Spain as the nation with the world’s fourth-highest number of confirmed Covid-19 patients. The country added 14,919 cases, according to government data on Saturday, bringing its total to 233,142. It trails the U.S., Russia, and UK The numbers […]
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6 more COVID-19 cases in Uttarakhand, taking total number of cases to 88
With six new corna cases reported on Saturday, the count of positive cases in Uttarakhand has climbed to 88, said the Health Department.According to the health bulletin, of these 88 COVID cases, there are 36 active cases. So far, 51 have recovered and been discharged.At present, 49,176 people are under […]
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Palestinians look to a digital future to connect with their past
Virtual reality tours have replaced flag-waving rallies as Palestinians facing coronavirus restrictions create digital spaces to lament the loss of their physical homeland in 1948. Cellphone apps and Zoom video chats are among the other online tools Palestinians are using to mark the Nakba, or “Catastrophe”, when they and their […]
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Uttarakhand floriculturists suffer heavy losses due to coronavirus lockdown and bad weather
The floriculture sector in Uttarakhand sector has suffered a loss of around Rs 250 crore owing to bad weather, said state Agriculture Minister Subodh Uniyal on Saturday. “People from the floriculture sector have submitted their issues. According to market value, a loss of Rs 250 crores has occurred due to bad weather. Their proposal has been […]
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Covid-19: Italy to allow travel to and from abroad from June 3
Italy’s government on Saturday approved a decree which will allow travel to and from abroad from June 3, in a major development as it moves to unwind one of the world’s most rigid coronavirus lockdowns. The government will allow free travel across the country from that same day. Some regions […]
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10 more die of Covid-19 in West Bengal; 84 fresh cases reported
West Bengal registered 10 more Covid-19 fatalities in the last 24 hours, raising the death toll in the state to 153, a health bulletin said on Friday. Of them five were from the city, three from North 24 Parganas district and two from Howrah, it said. The deaths were directly […]