HEALTH

India fighting Covid with all its might: PM Modi

India cases up as scientists appeal to Modi to release data

2:39 pm April 30, 2021

NEW DELHI: Indian scientists appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to publicly release virus data that would allow them to save lives as coronavirus cases climbed again Friday, prompting the army to open its hospitals in a desperate bid to control a massive humanitarian crisis. With 386,452 new cases, India now has reported more than […]

Plan prepared to vaccinate all adults in 3 months: CM Kejriwal

10:29 pm April 29, 2021

New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal announced on Thursday that a plan had been formulated to vaccinate all adults against coronavirus within the next three months. Kejriwal said vaccination centres would be set up on a large scale and those eligible must come forward to take the jab. “Had a meeting with the officials […]

AAP: Power Minister Satyendar Jain accepts Goa counterpart's 'challenge' for debating Delhi's electricity model

Declining COVID positivity rate is a certain ray of hope for us: Jain

6:27 pm April 29, 2021

New Delhi: Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain on Thursday said that the COVID positivity rate has been declining is a certain ray of hope for the government. Four days ago, the positivity rate in Delhi had touched the 35 per cent mark, which has come down to 31.76 per cent now, he added. He said […]

India grieves 200,000 dead with many more probably uncounted

11:10 pm April 28, 2021

New Delhi: Three days after his coronavirus symptoms appeared, Rajendra Karan struggled to breathe. Instead of waiting for an ambulance, his son drove him to a government hospital in Lucknow, the capital of India’s largest state. But the hospital wouldn’t let him in without a registration slip from the district’s chief medical officer. By the […]

Nobody expected a tsunami: Khattar on rising COVID-19 cases

11:01 pm April 28, 2021

Chandigarh: Calling the huge surge in COVID-19 cases an “unexpected tsunami”, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Wednesday said the state government is putting all its might to tackle the crisis. “One expects that floods can come during rainy season, but no one expects a tsunami,” he said on the rising cases of the […]