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Given the size of India's population, coronavirus testing needs to be scaled up in a manner that can be sustained, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan has said, asserting that the lockdown and social distancing are the most effective social vaccines available to fight the pandemic.At the same...
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The Maharashtra government has not allowed any vendor to sell liquor online or deliver it home and people should not fall for misleading advertisementsmaking such promises, the state excise department said on Saturday.A statement said all such news on social media about home delivery of liquor...
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1.1 million-pupil public school system will be closed for the rest of the school year as the city struggles to contain the coronavirus outbreak, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Saturday, according to a report in AP.Public schools in New York City, the US epicenter of the virus outbreak, have been...
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Police registered 200 cases and detained 3,515 people in Delhi on Saturday for violating government orders during the coronavirus lockdown, officials said. According to the data shared by the police, the cases were registered till 5 pm under IPC section 188 (for disobedience to order duly...
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The Uttar Pradesh police has declared rewards for those helping in tracing the Tablighi Jamaat members who are yet to report to the authorities here, police said on Saturday. The Jamaat members had attended a religious congregation in Delhi's Nizamuddin last month against the social distancing...
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All central ministers have been asked to resume work in ministries from Monday and put together plans for post-lockdown period to kick-start the economy, sources said on Saturday. All ministries have been directed that joint secretary and above rank officers will resume work in respective...
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A further 823 people have died in hospital in England after testing positive for coronavirus, NHS England said on Saturday.It brings the total deaths in England to 8,937.The patients were aged between 11 and 102 years old, according to NHS England, and 33 had no known underlying health conditions.
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Rahul Shewale, the MP from Mumbai South Central, has joined a team of doctors from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation and Mumbai police to help them conduct door-to-door screening. Dharavi, which falls in Shewale's constituency has emerged as a hotspot for COVID-19 positive patients. With...
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Justice V Kanagaraj, a retired judge of the Madras High Court, on Saturday assumed charge as the State Election Commissioner of Andhra Pradesh.The swift developments that began on Friday evening with the promulgation of an Ordinance amending Section 200 of the AP Panchayat Raj Act, 1994, leading...
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Greeting people on Easter eve, Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Saturday said everyone must derive courage and optimism from the spirit of the festival as the world strives to overcome the challenge posed by coronavirus. As we celebrate Easter at home with our loved ones, let us pray that our...
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Door-to-door screening of people living in Dharavi, Asia's largest slum, began on Saturday amid rising coronavirus cases in the area.A team of 150 doctors from Maharashtra Medical Association is helping the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation workers in the screening process. The total number of...
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Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray has confirmed that the state will be extending its lockdown beyond April 14 to April 30. He said, I told PM Modi that Maharashtra will continue lockdownafter April 14. Lockdown in Maharashtra will continue till April 30.He also added that a decision for...
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Services at the Delhi State Cancer Institute have been suspended till further notice in view of 21 people testing positive at the facility, officials said on Saturday. The Delhi government-run facility was sanitised during the day and another round of sanitisation will take place on Monday, a...
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The Union health ministry is having its daily Coronavirus press conference.Here are the highlights from the presser.>> India?s response to COVID-19 has been proactive. We have followed a graded approach. There are 587 COVID19 dedicated hospitals and more than 1 lakh isolation beds in the...
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The Centre is considering a request made by most states to extend the ongoing nationwide lockdown by two more weeks beyond April 14, government sources said on Saturday after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's interaction with chief ministers. Most states requested to extend the lockdown by two...
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The daily death toll has dropped significantly in Spain- with 100 fewer deaths reported on Saturday than on Friday.Although 510 people died from coronavirus in the past 24 hours, according to the health ministry, it is much lower than at the height of the outbreak.On Friday, the death toll was...
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Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has lauded Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his leadership in the fight against coronavirus. After the meeting with the PM where the decision to extend the lockdown was discussed, Kejriwal tweeted, PM has taken the correct decision to extend lockdown. Today,...
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BJP leader Kirit Somaiya on Saturday demanded strict action by the CBI against DHFL promoters Kapil and Dheeraj Wadhawan, both facing non-bailable warrants in a Yes Bank-related case, who are currently under quarantine for travelling during the coronavirus lockdown period.Somaiya said he spoke...
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Another Covid-19 death in Dharavi on Saturday, an 80-year-old, stoked the fear of what possibly lies ahead for Mumbai, India's financial capital, as health officials desperately track the trajectory of an outbreak that has claimed over 200 lives across the country so far.Saturday's death is the...
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Famously an ardent reader of all kinds of literature, Camilla has long championed the written word as a transformative tool to help better lives.And now, during one of the most disruptive and upsetting periods in recent history, the duchess has shared a selection of books near and dear to her...
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Pharmaceutical industry has significantly increased the production of hydroxychloroquine, Pankaj Patel, CEO of Zydus Cadila in Ahmedabad said, adding that 20 crore tablets of HCQ have been produced by the industry this month alone. The drug is in high demand globally and essential in treating...
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At least 20 employees of the Afghan Presidential Palace have tested positive for the coronavirus on Friday.Sources from the palace informed Tolo News that medics from the public health ministry have begun taking samples from other officials and staff members of the Presidential Palace after the...
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The national lockdown should be extended by at least a fortnight, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh suggested during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's interaction with chief ministers on Saturday. As India battles the COVID-19 crisis, the prime minister held a video conference with chief...
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The DMK in Tamil Nadu on Saturday urged the state government to take a cue from Punjab and Odisha and extend the ongoing lockdown enforced in the state to stem the spread of coronavirus till April-end.DMK President M K Stalin's demand came on a day when the state cabinet under Chief Minister K...
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Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today asked the Centre to extend the pan-India lockdown amid the COVID-19 pandemic till April 30. Kejriwal was among several chief ministers who participated in a video conference with Prime Minister Narendra Modi this afternoon to discuss whether the lockdown...
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In a bid to contain the spread of coronavirus, the number of containment zones in the national capital rose to 30 with the government sealing six new areas.The new areas include -- Nabi Karim, E pocket GTB enclave, Street no 18 to 22 of Zakir Nagar and nearby area of Abu Bakar Masjid, Zakir...
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As 92 more cases of COVID-19 have emerged in Maharashtra, the number of such patients in the state reached 1,666 on Saturday, the state health departmentsaid.Seventy-two of these new cases were detected in Mumbai, it said.Five others tested positive in Malegaon, four in Thane, two eachin Panvel...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has begun his video conference with the chief ministers of India where a call would be taken on whether the 21-day lockdown to check spread of coronavirus, ending next week, should be extended.The video conference comes amid indications that the central government may...
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Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's meeting with chief ministers, senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Saturday urged CMs of states where the party is in power to unanimously demand for transfer of cash to every poor family.He said the poor have lost their jobs and have exhausted their...
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If China is considered a developing country, make the United States too a developing one, US President Donald Trump said on Friday, alleging that Beijing has taken advantage of his country. China has been unbelievably taken advantage of us and other countries. You know, for instance, they are...
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China has reported 46 new coronavirus cases, including four local and 34 asymptomatic infections, while three more people have died due to the global pandemic, taking the death toll in the country to 3,339, health officials said here on Saturday. According to China's National Health...
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Turkey has imposed a 48-hour curfew in 31 provinces beginning on Friday midnight as part of measures to stem the spread of COVID-19, the country's interior ministry announced.The curfew is ordered in the capital Ankara, Adana, Antalya, Aydin, Balikesir, Bursa, Denizli, Diyarbakir, Erzurum,...
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The highly infectious coronavirus has killed 239 people in the country, with 40 new deaths reported in the last 24 hours. The total number of positive cases is now 7,447.While the number of active COVID-19 cases stood at 6,565, as many as 643 people have been cured and discharged, and one had...
