Over 4,000 Dead Due To Coronavirus In US, Donald Trump Says Country Headed For ‘Tough Two Weeks’
The total US death toll from the coronavirus pandemic topped 4,000 early Wednesday, more than double the number from three days earlier, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University. The number of deaths was 4,076 — more than twice the 2,010 recorded late Saturday, Johns Hopkins data showed. The US is headed for a […]
Struggling To Get Your Medicine Due To Corona Lockdown? Try These Five Options
A week into the nationwide lockdown, there are reports that essential medicine are short in supply. Patients have complained that they have not been able to find their medicine in the market due to a number of reasons. Here’s what you can do: (1) Call 011-23062487: The Centre has set-up a control room to monitor […]
Islamic missionary at centre of India’s Covid-19 outbreak
By early March, coronavirus disease (Covid-19 )cases were surging across the world. In India, where their number had just begun to rise, there was an air of caution though a lockdown was still several days away. Ignoring the pandemic, an estimated 2,500 Sunni Muslim men belonging to several nationalities, each identically dressed in a white […]
HIV drugs junked: Malaria drug, antibiotic combo now on treatment list
Anti-HIV drugs Lopinavir and Ritonavir are no longer India’s drugs of choice against the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Instead, a combination of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), used for treatment of auto-immune disorders, and the antibitoic azithromycin has now been recommended for use in severe patients in new clinical management guidelines issued late on Tuesday night. The earlier guidelines, dated March 17, […]
Centre defines new domicile rule for J&K, includes those who have lived in UT for 15 years
A person residing in Jammu and Kashmir for at least fifteen years will now be eligible to be a domicile of the union territory, according to the new rule issued by the Centre Tuesday. In the latest gazette notification, Section 3A of the J&K Reorganisation (Adaptation of State Laws) Order 2020, under the J&K civil […]
Cases rise to 1,397, death toll at 35; Govt says 6 lakh migrants housed in 61,000 shelters
Coronavirus India Latest Update: Fresh cases were reported in Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday as India entered its seventh day of lockdown. On Monday, India registered the sharpest spike in coronavirus cases — 227 people tested positive over the last 24 hours, taking the total to 1,397. Of these 102 people have been cured and […]
Worldwide coronavirus cases surpass 800,000 : Live updates
Spain has reported 849 new deaths from the coronavirus, the highest overnight jump since the start of the pandemic, bringing the total number of fatalities in the country to 8,189. The death toll in the United Kingdom also jumped to 1,789 fatalities with a daily record of 381 new coronavirus deaths confirmed. In the United States, further restrictions […]
Corona Impact: Recession To Hit World Economy With Likely Exception Of India, China, Says UN Report
The world economy will go into recession this year with a predicted loss of trillions of dollars of global income due to the coronavirus pandemic, spelling serious trouble for developing countries with the likely exception of India and China, according to a latest UN trade report. With two-thirds of the world’s population living in developing […]
All essential service providers should be periodically tested: Scientists in open letter
New Delhi: A testing site within 100 km for primary healthcare centres, periodic testing of people providing essential services and provision of protective gear for all essential service providers — these are among the measures the Indian scientific community has recommended for the lockdown. Nearly 200 Indian scientists and researchers Tuesday put out a statement for public agencies, […]
Amid COVID-19 lockdown man fakes death to reach home in J-K
Srinagar: In a script copied from a Bollywood thriller, a man on Tuesday faked his death to reach his home in Saillan village of Surankote in Poonch district along with his three associates, before police caught them. All the four hailing from Saillan village met in Jammu and conspired to fake death of one of them […]
