COVID-19 infections

TN reports 1,904 COVID-19 infections, 30 deaths

11:50 pm July 20, 2021

Chennai: Tamil Nadu reported 1,904 new COVID-19 cases, including three returnees from Andhra Pradesh, taking the tally to 25.39 lakh, while 30 more deaths took the toll to 33,782. Recoveries continued to outnumber new infections with 2,439 people getting discharged, pushing the cumulative to 24,78,778, leaving 26,717 active cases, a health department bulletin said. As […]

Restaurants wait anxiously for Delhi govt to lift curbs

8:56 pm May 28, 2021

New Delhi: Home-style cooked meals and ‘in-house delivery’ ecosystem might have saved the day for some restaurants in Delhi, but with dine-ins contributing “70-80 per cent” of the total revenue, owners wait anxiously for the city government to lift curbs after a six-week gruelling lockdown. Dine-in facility has not been allowed in Delhi since April […]

2 Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine doses 85-90 per cent effective, real-world study finds

3:26 pm May 21, 2021

London: Two doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine have shown to prevent around 85 to 90 per cent of symptomatic COVID-19 infections, the first real-world data from Public Health England (PHE) has found. The method used for the ‘COVID-19 Vaccine Surveillance Report’ by PHE for analysing the approximate number of deaths and hospitalisations prevented by the vaccine programme was able to take into […]

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

Focus on COVID-19 testing, tracing, Delhi HC tells AAP govt

2:49 pm December 3, 2020

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court Thursday directed the AAP government to “focus on testing and tracing” to deal with the COVID-19 infections numbers in the national capital. A bench of Justices Hima Kohli and Subramonium Prasad also said that the time to declare results should be brought down to within 24 hours from 48 hours or […]

British PM forced to defend India travel ban timing over Delta variant in Parliament

UK minister warns of tough fines as England enters second lockdown

6:38 pm November 5, 2020

London: The UK government on Thursday reminded people about the tough fines in place over severe breaches as England entered its second stay-at-home lockdown in order to try and control the rapid spread of COVID-19 infections, expected to last at least until December 2. UK Justice Secretary Robert Buckland said that while the police forces of the […]

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