Day: May 6, 2020

Lockdown extended in Delhi, Haryana, Rajasthan

Delhi Police registers first COVID-19 death

7:44 pm May 6, 2020

New Delhi: A 31-year-old Delhi Police constable who died after falling sick on Tuesday evening had tested positive for coronavirus, registering the first death in the city police due to the infection, officials said on Wednesday. The constable’s sample was sent for COVID-19 test and the reports came as positive on Wednesday, they said. This […]

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Team of senior doctors may visit worst-hit Ahmedabad

7:39 pm May 6, 2020

Ahmedabad: A team of three senior doctors from Mumbai and Delhi, including AIIMS director Dr Randeep Guleria, is likely to visit Ahmedabad, which has recorded a higher COVID-19 death rate, the Gujarat government said on Wednesday. A request for sending a team of highly-experienced medical experts has been made by Chief Minister Vijay Rupani to […]

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Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts to be blocked until inauguration, says Zuckerberg

Admin of Instagram group ‘Bois Locker Room’ arrested

7:34 pm May 6, 2020

New Delhi: Delhi Police’s Cyber cell has arrested the admin of the Instagram group which was being used to share obscene messages and morphed pictures of underage girls on the social media site, officials said on Wednesday. Police said the 18-year-old admin of the group, known as “Bois Locker Room”, appeared for his class 12 […]

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Four more die of Covid-19 in West Bengal; toll now 72

7:23 pm May 6, 2020

Kolkata: West Bengal reported four Covid-19 deaths in the last 24 hours, taking the toll to 72 in the state, Home Secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay said on Wednesday. These patients died directly because of Covid-19, he said. Bandyopadhyay said 72 others succumbed to various concurrent ailments and the novel coronavirus infection in them was “incidental”. He […]

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1,118 fresh COVID-19 cases; 26 more deaths in Delhi

COVID-19 death toll touches 1,694; cases rise to 49,391

7:16 pm May 6, 2020

New Delhi: The death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 1,694 and the number of cases climbed to 49,391 in the country on Wednesday, registering an increase of 126 deaths and 2,958 cases in the last 24 hours, the Union Health Ministry said. The number of active COVID-19 cases is 33,514. A total of 13,160 […]

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