coronavirus infection

SpiceJet to operate 21 new flights from next week

SpiceJet engineer tests positive for coronavirus

10:20 pm April 28, 2020

Mumbai: Budget carrier SpiceJet on Tuesday said one of its engineers has tested positive for coronavirus and that all measures are being taken to provide appropriate medical care to the person. The employee last reported for duty on April 22 and was tested positive on April 27, an airline spokesperson told PTI. As a precautionary […]

Mumbai: 395 fresh COVID-19 cases; 15 more deaths

11:53 pm April 27, 2020

Mumbai: Mumbai on Monday reported 395 new COVID-19 cases, taking the total number of the infected patients in the country‘s financial capital to 5,589, the BMC said. The city also reported 15 new fatalities due to the COVID-19 disease, taking the death toll so far to 219, the civic body said in a release. Of […]

History-sheeter held in UP after brief encounter

Police team quarantined in UP’s Bahraich

7:52 pm April 25, 2020

Bahraich (UP): A police team which had taken a man to a quarantine facility here has been quarantined after he tested positive for COVID-19, a senior police official said on Saturday. Additional Superintendent of Police Ajay Pratap Singh said the man was quarantined on April 19 and has now been confirmed to have the coronavirus […]

Iran says no longer at ‘red’ status, reports 93 new virus deaths

7:03 pm April 24, 2020

Tehran: Iran’s health ministry said on Friday that the virus-hit country was no longer at “red” status as it announced another 93 deaths from its COVID-19 outbreak. Ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour said the novel coronavirus fatalities recorded in the past 24 hours took Iran’s overall death toll to 5,574. Jahanpour also announced 1,168 new cases […]

Gadkari disapproves Maharashtra demand to run trains for migrants

9:52 pm April 22, 2020

Mumbai: Union minister Nitin Gadkari on Wednesday disapproved the Maharashtra government’s demand to run special trains for migrant workers to take them to their native states, saying that such scenario should not become another Nizamuddin-like situation. The demand for special trains was made by Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray to the Centre. “I do understand their […]