Day: April 17, 2020

UK's Lords condemns Brexit bill as UK-EU talks stay stalled

London buses step up virus measures after 20 drivers die

7:41 pm April 17, 2020

London: London‘s transport authorities on Friday announced new measures to protect bus drivers from coronavirus, as colleagues held a minute’s silence for 20 who have already died. Mayor Sadiq Khan, whose father was a bus driver, led tributes to the victims as authorities said passengers would no longer be able to use the front door […]

Expert says UK likely has Europe’s highest virus death rate

7:34 pm April 17, 2020

London: A leading public health expert said Friday that Britain likely has the highest coronavirus death rate in Europe due to what he described as system errors, while the government defended its record in responding to the pandemic. Anthony Costello, director of the Institute for Global Health at University College London, said the U.K. could […]

Isolation hitting mental health of COVID-19 patients: Experts

MP: Four nabbed after escaping from isolation facility

7:22 pm April 17, 2020

Indore: Four persons, including two COVID-19 patients, who had escaped from an isolation facility in Madhya Pradesh’s Indore city in a truck, were nabbed at Morena district, police said on Friday. Eight people, including six coronavirus patients and two suspects, had escaped from an isolation facility set up at a hotel in Indore on Wednesday, […]

Coronavirus-hit Chinese economy shrinks 6.8 pct in Q1, worst since 1976

3:46 pm April 17, 2020

Beijing: China’s GDP took the worst hit since the disastrous Cultural Revolution in 1976, plummeting by 6.8 per cent in the first quarter of 2020 as the country took unprecedented measures to fight the coronavirus pandemic that brought the world’s second largest economy to a standstill. China’s gross domestic product stood at 20.65 trillion yuan […]

5,000 cases registered in Mumbai for lockdown violation

MP: Cop runs fitness challenge for lockdown violators

3:39 pm April 17, 2020

Betul (MP): A policeman in Madhya Pradesh’s Betul city ran a fitness challenge for three lockdown violators who allegedly claimed that they had stepped out of their homes for a walk as they had put on weight during the lockdown. Trainee deputy superintendent of police Santosh Patel caught three youngsters strolling around College Road in […]