Day: April 23, 2020

Have cut transmission, minimised spread, increased COVID-19 doubling time during lockdown: Govt

11:58 pm April 23, 2020

New Delhi: The government said on Thursday that it has been able to “cut coronavirus transmission“, minimise its spread and increase the doubling time of COVID-19 cases in the country during the 30-day period of the nationwide lockdown. While asserting that the growth of coronavirus cases in the country has been more or less linear […]

China claims coronavirus broke out in world’s various parts last year; it only reported first

China could have had 2.32 lakh coronavirus cases by mid-February: Study

11:57 pm April 23, 2020

Beijing: China could have reported over 2.32 lakh COVID-19 cases by mid-February — more than four times of what was officially announced — if it had followed a broader criterion to count the total number of infections, a study has said. “We estimated that there were at least 2,32,000 infections in the first epidemic wave […]

Africa’s 43% jump in COVID-19 cases in week worries experts

11:49 pm April 23, 2020

Cape Town: Africa has registered a 43 per cent jump in reported COVID-19 cases in the last week, highlighting a warning from the World Health Organization that the continent of 1.3 billion could become the next epicentre of the global outbreak. Africa also has a “very, very limited” and very, very strained testing capacity, John […]

PMC bank: Wadhawans bail rejected, offence grave says court

Wadhawans shifted to home quarantine in Mahabaleshwar

11:43 pm April 23, 2020

Pune: DHFL promoters Kapil Wadhawan and Dheeraj Wadhawan and 21 others including their family members have been now placed in home quarantine at their property in Mahabaleshwar in western Maharashtra, a police official said. The Wadhawan brothers and others were placed in institutional quarantine at Panchgani on April 9 after it was found that they […]

Terror hideout busted in J-K's Poonch; arms, ammo seized

Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist arrested in J-K’s Kulgam

11:39 pm April 23, 2020

Srinagar: A terrorist belonging to banned outfit Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) was arrested from Kulgam district of Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday, police said. Arms and ammunition were recovered from him, they said. “(Based) on a specific input, police have arrested an active terrorist of proscribed terror outfit Hizbul Mujahideen in Kulgam,” a police spokesperson said. […]

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