Andhra Pradesh

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Priority is close monitoring, guiding containment work in areas with high infection rate: PM Modi

8:41 pm July 11, 2020

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday appreciated the efforts of the Centre, state and the local authorities in containing the COVID-19 situation in Delhi, and directed that a similar approach be replicated in checking the pandemic in the entire NCR area. “Priority is close monitoring and guiding the containment works in regions where the infection rate is high,” […]

India registers highest single-day spike of nearly 23K COVID cases

11:14 pm July 4, 2020

New Delhi: India’s COVID-19 tally neared 6.5 lakh cases on Saturday with a record single-day spike of 22,771 new infections, even as the recovery rate further improved to 60.81 per cent. The government said several people-centric measures taken as part of the “test, trace, treat” strategy have removed the impediments for COVID-19 testing. Facilitation of […]

COVID-19 spread in AP at ‘manageable’ level now: Govt

3:32 pm July 4, 2020

Amaravati : Coronavirus cases may have shot up by a whopping 14,000 in just over a month in Andhra Pradesh, but the state government said the pandemic spread is at a “manageable” level right now. ‘R naught’, which indicates the scale of transmission of infection in AP is now 1.2 to 1.3, indicating that the “numbers […]

‘Super spreader’ family infects 87 people in Odisha village

11:13 pm July 3, 2020

Bhubaneshwar: A family of three is being termed a COVID-19 “super spreader” in Odisha’s Rayagada district as it is being said to be the source of infection to 87 people in a village, a senior official said Friday. The family — a man, his wife and their daughter – had returned to their village, called […]

India’s COVID-19 tally rises to 5.66 lakh; 66 pc cases in June alone; PM says increasing ‘negligence’ by people a cause of worry

10:35 pm June 30, 2020

New Delhi: As the month-long ‘Unlock-1’ ends on Tuesday, India reported nearly 66 per cent of its COVID-19 cases in June alone, and a concerned Prime Minister Narendra Modi said people not strictly adhering to rules and precautions as they did during the lockdown was a cause of worry. India’s COVID-19 tally climbed to 5,66,840 with a […]