No New Coronavirus Cases In Ladakh In 12 Days As Lockdown, Isolation Continue
The Union Territory of Ladakh, which was one of the first few regions in the country to report positive Coronavirus cases, has not registered any new cases in the last 12 days. The officials attribute the halt in the rise of positive cases to the complete lockdown and isolation of villages where suspected symptomatic patients […]
Coronavirus: Three More Test Positive, Total Cases 55
Srinagar Three more patients have tested positive for the Coronavirus in Kashmir taking the total number of positive cases in Jammu and Kashmir to 55, the official spokesman said. Taking to social networking site Twitter, government spokesman Rohit Kansal wrote: “ UPDATE : 6 new positive cases confirmed in Kashmir Division. All contacts of previous […]
COVID-19: Ten year old among 3 positive, J-K tally rises to 52
Srinagar: The number of COVID-19 patients in Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday crossed 50 mark as three more persons have been confirmed to have contracted the dreaded disease, all of them from Kashmir and include a ten-year-old boy, who had hugged a man who later tested positive for coronavirus. Official sources told that the boy, a […]
New York governor begs for help as coronavirus death toll climbs
New York’s governor put out an urgent plea for medical volunteers, and a Navy hospital ship pulled into port Monday as coronavirus deaths in the city mounted and hospitals buckled in what authorities say could be a preview of what other communities across the United States could soon face. “Please come help us in New York now. We need […]
How Trump was forced to give up his plan to reopen America for Easter
Washington: As President Donald Trump’s coronavirus response team gathered at the White House Sunday to discuss re-opening the U.S. for business by Easter, his top health experts painted a troubling picture of what lay ahead. Deborah Birx, an immunologist picked by Vice President Mike Pence to weigh the ailment’s impact, cautioned that the U.S. outbreak was […]
What we know about Nizamuddin mosque congregation: 10 points
Delhi’s Nizamuddin area has emerged as the hotspot of coronavirus disease after several cases of Covid-19 emerged in people who were a part of a religious congregation in the area earlier this month. Here’s a quick guide on the development: 1. According to reports, more than 2,000 delegates from countries like Indonesia and Malaysia attended the Tablighi Jamaat congregation […]
India lockdown day 6: Govt zeroes in on 10 hotspots
As the number of COVID-19 cases reached 1,251 across the country (101 recovered, 32 dead), India is set to ramp up testing in 10 identified “hotspots” where “unusual” transmission has been detected. Of these, two — Dilshad Garden and Nizamuddin — are in Delhi, the others being Noida, Meerut, Bhilwara, Ahmedabad, Kasaragod, Pathanamthitta, Mumbai and Pune. In the last 24 hours, […]
‘My Mother Is Dead. I Am Stuck In Coronavirus Lockdown’: Bihar Labourer Cries For Help In Delhi
Like thousands of others, Tipu Yadav, a migrant labourer from Bihar, is also stuck in Delhi following Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s declaration for a nationwide lockdown to contain the spread of the deadly coronavirus, which continues to wreak havoc across the world. On Monday, Yadav was seen crying after he learnt of his mother’s death. […]
Robbers Hit Home Of J&K Family Under Coronavirus Quarantine
Srinagar: The house of a coronavirus positive patient in Bandipora district of Jammu and Kashmir was allegedly robbed during the night as the entire family was in quarantine, police said on Monday. Burglars struck at a house in Saderkoot Bala area in Hajin area of the north Kashmir district during the night and decamped with […]
India needs package of Rs 5 lakh crore to save businesses from collapsing due to Covid-19
Measures taken to contain and eliminate passive transmission risk, more than the manifested active risk of the COVID-19 virus to human factors of production- both the owners/entrepreneurs and workers- have disrupted the economic and financial systems the world over. Few countries like South Korea and Japan decided to track down the carriers- symptomatic or asymptomatic […]
