United Nations: The World Health Organisation has said a recent risk assessment of the situation in India found that “resurgence and acceleration” of COVID-19 transmission in the country had several potential contributing factors, including ”several religious and political mass gathering events which increased social mixing”. The WHO, in its COVID-19 Weekly Epidemiological Update, published Wednesday, said […]
Read MoreGuwahati: The number of COVID-19 cases crossed the 2,700 mark in Assam on Monday with 95 more people testing positive, Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said. With the new cases, the state’s tally rose to 2,776, Sarma said. “Alert ~ 83 new #COVID19+ cases reported. 30 Nagaon, 16 Kamrup, 10 Darrang, 10 Kamrup (R), 6 […]
Read MoreLondon: London‘s transport authorities on Friday announced new measures to protect bus drivers from coronavirus, as colleagues held a minute’s silence for 20 who have already died. Mayor Sadiq Khan, whose father was a bus driver, led tributes to the victims as authorities said passengers would no longer be able to use the front door […]
Read MoreGeneva: The World Health Organization said on Monday that a safe and effective vaccine would be needed to fully halt the spread of COVID-19, which has killed more than 114,000 people worldwide. “Our global connectedness means the risk of re-introduction and resurgence of COVID19 will continue,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a virtual briefing […]
Read MoreNew York: New York recorded the highest single day death toll for the third consecutive day as 799 people died due to COVID19, Governor Andrew Cuomo said, but added there is “good news” that the state is “flattening the curve” and seeing a drop in hospitalisations, ICU admissions and intubations. The state recorded 799 deaths […]
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