NEW YORK: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention eased its guidelines Tuesday on the wearing of masks outdoors, saying fully vaccinated Americans don’t need to cover their faces anymore unless they are in a big crowd of strangers. And those who are unvaccinated can go outside without masks in some cases, too. The new […]
Read MoreNew Delhi: Dr. Gautam Singh dreads the daily advent of the ventilator beeps, signaling that oxygen levels are critically low, and hearing his critically ill patients start gasping for air in the New Delhi emergency ward where he works. Like other doctors across the country, which on Monday set another record for new coronavirus infections […]
Read MoreBhopal: Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Tuesday said not wearing a face mask amounts to crime and appealed to people to follow appropriate ”social behaviour” to check the spread of COVID-19. The surge in cases now is due to people lowering their guard, Chouhan said after starting a 24-hour ‘sit-in’ here to […]
Read MoreNew Delhi: North Delhi Mayor Jai Prakash on Wednesday inaugurated a ‘mask bank’ at Sadar Bazar in central Delhi, according to a statement. The mask bank at Barah Tuti Chowk has been jointly developed by the North Delhi Municipal Corporation and the Delhi Police. Anybody in need of a mask can have it for free from the […]
Read MoreNew Delhi: Delhi recorded 2,737 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, the city’s highest single-day spike in 67 days, taking the infection tally to over 1.82 lakh, while the death toll mounted to 4,500, authorities said. This is the third successive day in September in which over 2,000 new cases have been reported. According to the […]
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