COVID-19

Formulate ‘staggered’ exit strategy from lockdown: PM to CMs

11:20 pm April 2, 2020

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday told chief ministers to focus on COVID-19 containment measures — testing, tracing, isolation and quarantine — in the next few weeks with a common goal to ensure minimum loss of life, and pitched for formulating a staggered exit strategy from the ongoing lockdown. As the country witnessed […]

Coronavirus: IIT-Roorkee develops low-cost ventilator

10:40 pm April 2, 2020

Dehradun: IIT-Roorkee has developed a low-cost portable ventilator that can be useful in the fight against COVID-19. The closed-loop ventilator does not require compressed air and is useful when hospital wards and open areas are converted into ICUs, a press release from the premier institute said. The ventilator named ‘Prana-Vayu’ has been developed in collaboration […]

Maharashtra COVID-19 tally jumps to 416, death toll rises to 19

10:28 pm April 2, 2020

Mumbai: As many as 81 people tested positive for COVID-19 in Maharashtra on Thursday, taking the tally to 416, while two more patients succumbed to the infection, raising the toll to 19, said a health official. At 57, Mumbai city topped in the number of fresh cases in Maharashtra, which is leading the nation-wide coronavirus […]

Delhi-based Kashmiri scribes, over 25 people from Valley were potential spying targets: Report

Curfew clamped in Medo after man tests COVID-19 positive

10:03 pm April 2, 2020

Itanagar: Curfew was clamped in Medo area of Lohit district in Arunachal Pradesh on Thursday for 24-hours after a man tests positive for COVID-19, an official said. The 24-hour curfew which has been clamped at Medo area since 12 PM on Thursday would be in force till Friday noon, Lohit Deputy Commissioner Prince Dhawan said. […]

Delhi-based CRPF doctor tests positive for coronavirus

8:18 pm April 2, 2020

New Delhi: A senior CRPF doctor based in Delhi has tested positive for COVID-19, officials said on Thursday. They said the doctor has been admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Haryana’s Jhajjar. The doctor, in the rank of chief medical officer, was posted in the office of the Additional Director […]