New Delhi: India is in a much better position than other countries in the fight against COVID-19 as a result of “right decisions taken at the right time”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday, asserting that the country has expanded its health infrastructure at a rapid pace to deal with the pandemic. Speaking after […]
Read MorePort Blair: Twenty-four persons were arrested in Andaman and Nicobar Islands for organising a party at a hotel, violating the guidelines related to COVID-19, police said on Monday. Acting on a tip-off, police raided hotel TSG Emerald in Phoenix Bay area of Port Blair on Sunday night, they said. It was found that total 91 […]
Read MoreHanoi: Vietnam announced Friday that it was banning wildlife imports and would close wildlife markets in response to renewed concerns about the threat from diseases that can jump from animals to humans, such as the virus that causes COVID-19. An order signed by Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on Thursday bans all imports of wildlife […]
Read MoreKarimnagar (Telangana): A government official here allegedly committed suicide thinking he had contracted COVID-19, police said on Friday. Mamidala Raja Venkata Ramana (54) was a superintendent in the Education Department in Mancherial which is over 80 km from Karimnagar. He suffered from cough and cold recently, and thought he had been infected with the virus. […]
Read MoreMelbourne: Home-made cloth face masks may need a minimum of two layers, and preferably three, to prevent the dispersal of viral droplets associated with COVID-19, according to a study. Researchers, including those from the University of New South Wales in Australia, noted that viral droplets are generated by those infected with the novel coronavirus when they cough, sneeze, […]
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