Day: April 20, 2020

Costa Rica seeks unity for COVID fight as WHO assembly looms

WHO chief insists ‘nothing hidden from US’ on coronavirus

11:58 pm April 20, 2020

Geneva: World Health Organisation (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus insisted on Monday that the UN agency had not hidden from the United States any information it had about the coronavirus pandemic. He said the presence of embedded US government secondees working at the WHO headquarters in Geneva “means there is nothing hidden from the US, […]

Delhi man killed for informing owner about people drinking on building rooftop

11:54 pm April 20, 2020

New Delhi: A 40-year-old man was stabbed to death on Monday allegedly after he informed the owner of a house about some people drinking on his building rooftop in central Delhi’s Patel Nagar area, police said. The deceased man has been identified as Krishna Shah, a resident of Prem Nagar in Patel Nagar, they said. […]

France fast-tracks citizenship for foreign virus fighters

France virus toll tops 20,000 after 547 new deaths: official

11:49 pm April 20, 2020

Paris: France on Monday announced that more than 20,000 people had now died from the coronavirus in the country after 547 new deaths, even as tentative signs grew that the epidemic was steadying. “Tonight, our country has passed a barrier that is symbolic and particularly painful,” top health official Jerome Salomon told reporters, announcing a […]

Police: 13-year-old girl dragged by stolen vehicle dies

Policemen save life of pregnant woman in Southeast Delhi

11:47 pm April 20, 2020

New Delhi: A pregnant woman, whose baby died inside the womb, was saved by police who rushed her to a clinic in southeast Delhi‘s Zakir Nagar area, officials said on Monday. Nirmala was seven months pregnant and was having extreme pain since past few days. Three days ago, she got an ultrasound done at Badarpur, […]

TN govt prepares list of donors for plasma therapy

11:26 pm April 20, 2020

Chennai: The Tamil Nadu health department is preparing a list of donors for the convalescent plasma therapy to treat COVID-19 patients, even as the government is awaiting the final nod from the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) to commence the trials. The health authorities have already identified five people who have expressed their willingness […]

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