coronavirus

Thousands without heat, water after tornadoes kill dozens

Unlock 3: No schools, metro, cinema till Aug 31; night curfew lifted

9:22 pm July 29, 2020

New Delhi: The nationwide Unlock 3 guidelines were on Wednesday issued by the government, opening up more activities outside the containment zones, but schools, colleges, metro rail service, cinema halls along with bars will continue to remain shut till August 31 and political and religious gatherings will also remain prohibited. For the first time since […]

China, S Korea, Japan see upticks in COVID cases

1:27 pm July 29, 2020

Beijing: China reported more than 100 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday as the country continues to battle an outbreak in Xinjiang. The 101 new cases was China’s highest daily increase in weeks. The northwestern region of Xinjiang accounted for 89, with another eight in the northeastern province of Liaoning and one in Beijing. Another […]

Around 400 new COVID-19 cases in Delhi: Kejriwal

Delhi CM Kejriwal launches job portal

8:59 pm July 27, 2020

New Delhi: Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal launched a job portal on Monday and appealed to the traders, industrialists and people to join hands to revive Delhi’s economy. The portal — jobs.delhi.gov.in — will serve as a “Rozgar Bazaar” for the recruiters and job aspirants, Kejriwal said, highlighting that many people had lost their jobs and businesses were […]

Plea in HC to direct CBSE affiliated schools to publish docs on criteria to calculate class 10 marks

Why continue rapid antigen tests when false negatives so high: HC to Delhi govt

8:52 pm July 27, 2020

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Monday asked the AAP government why it was going with Rapid Antigen Testing (RAT), which has a high rate of false negative results, as the primary test of COVID-19 infection. It also made it clear to the Delhi government to “strictly” follow the guidelines on COVID-19 testing as […]

US: COVID-19 vaccine put to final test in thousands of volunteers

6:31 pm July 27, 2020

New York: The world’s biggest COVID-19 vaccine study got underway Monday with the first of 30,000 planned volunteers helping to test shots created by the U.S. government — one of several candidates in the final stretch of the global vaccine race. There’s still no guarantee that the experimental vaccine, developed by the National Institutes of […]