MHA has asked Delhi govt to stop home isolation of persons who have tested positive at the review meeting chaired by home minister Amit Shah on Thursday.
Coronavirus cases in India have jumped up to 3,66,946 with the death toll from the virus taking 12,237 lives. Globally, the total number of confirmed Covid cases have crossed the 80 lakh-mark.
Centre on Thursday lifted the export ban on anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine and its formulations. The government on March 25 had banned the export of the drug in the wake of the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic.
Earlier today, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Thursday said that under the Centre’s Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyaan (GKRA), migrants across 116 districts will be given work under.
“Everyone who needs an assignment in these 116 districts will be given work under Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyaan, broad estimated expenditure for the scheme is Rs 50,000 crores, the money allotted for this will be front-loaded,” Sitharaman said.
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MHA has asked Delhi govt to stop home isolation of persons who have tested positive at the review meeting chaired by home minister Amit Shah yesterday.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday, announced that 700-bed capacity hospital with world-class facility will be opening in Burari. The hospital will be started with 450 beds for coronavirus patients for now.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday, took to Twitter and appealed all the NGOs and individuals to join in the fight against COVID-19.
Bihar Health Department on Friday, has confirmed 138 new coronavirus positive cases taking the total tally of the infection to 7,718. The number of recovered patients reached to 5098.
China has launched a nationwide campaign to inspect food imports after a new coronavirus outbreak emerged at a wholesale market in Beijing, with experts suggesting it shares similarities to European strains. "It is older than the virus currently circulating in Europe," Zhang said in a report published by the Communist Party's anti-corruption watchdog on Friday. Zhang raised the possibility of the virus lurking in imported frozen food or in the wholesale market itself, resulting in similarities to older strains.
Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain admitted at Covid hospital, has also been diagnosed with pneumonia: Official
With 465 new cases on Friday, the state tally increases to 7,961. Four more deaths take the toll to 96
To provide relief to the common man in Delhi, HM Amit Shah constituted a committee under Member of NITI Aayog to fix rates charged by Pvt hospitals in Delhi for isolation beds, ICUs without ventilator support & ICUs with ventilator support.
The Delhi High Court has directed authorities to treat as a representation a PIL seeking free masks, free food twice a day and water in all of the over 200 containment zones in the national capital. A bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice Prateek Jalan said the petitioner had not made any representation to the authorities for the various reliefs, including allowing entry of technical or service personnel and door-to-door delivery of essential goods in such zones.
Delhi Dy CM Manish Sisodia to meet officials at 12:30 pm today to hold discussion on increasing number of ICUs in the national capital
Step taken in order to implement contactless ticket checking, a senior Railway official said on Friday. For scanning ticket and passenger identity particulars, a webcam on the passenger side has been provided which is connected to computer available with ticket checking staff. For communication between passenger and ticket checking staff microphone and speakers are provided on both sides physically separated through glass partition wall of the counter.
A 79-year-old man from Nowshera area of Srinagar and an 80-year-old man from Sopore area of north Kashmir's Baramulla district were the latest fatalities. The number of fatalities due to the novel coronavirus in the Union Territory has risen to 74.
A team of UK scientists, led by an Indian-origin researcher, has found that Covid-19 patients with extremely high levels of stress hormone cortisol in their blood are more likely to deteriorate quickly and die.The study from Imperial College London, published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, provides the first data to show that cortisol levels are a marker of the severity of the illness.The researchers suggest cortisol levels can be used to identify those patients who are more likely to need intensive care.Cortisol is produced by the body in response to stress such as illness, triggering changes in metabolism, heart function and the immune system to help our bodies cope.
Total cases: 380,532; Active:163,248; Cured/Discharged/Migrated:204,711; Deaths:12,573
The United States does not need more widespread lockdowns to bring its COVID-19 outbreak under control, despite the fact that the national daily infection rate has stayed flat, leading government expert Anthony Fauci said Thursday. "I don't think we're going to be talking about going back to lockdown," he said when asked whether places like California and Texas that are seeing a surge in their caseload should reissue stay-at-home orders. "I think we're going to be talking about trying to better control those areas of the country that seem to be having a surge of cases."
Japan lifted all coronavirus-related curbs on domestic travel on Friday, with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe calling on people to go sightseeing or attend concerts and other events to help the nation's economy bounce back from a pandemic recession. The end of a government advisory for people to stay put in infected prefectures or avoid traveling to them should help hotels, resorts and areas that rely heavily on tourism. Any recovery, however, may be slow because many people are still avoiding crowds and most travel to Japan is still restricted.
Maharashtra reported 100 fatalities, Delhi 65, Tamil Nadu 49 and Gujarat 31.
Mexico posted another record one-day increase in confirmed coronavirus cases, with 5,662, while 667 more deaths were reported Thursday. The daily death toll has been hovering around 700 for much of this week, but the daily caseload increase has usually remained below 5,000. Mexico now has seen 19,747 confirmed coronavirus deaths and 165,455 confirmed cases.
The new study, conducted over 20,000 hospitalized covid-19 patients, was based on a century-old idea in medicine that has been used against measles, influenza and Ebola. The treatment, also called convalescent plasma, found that people who recover from infection have virus-fighting antibodies floating in their blood, and transfusions of their plasma -- the clear liquid after blood cells are removed -- may give recipients' immune systems an assist in fighting off the virus, The Washington Post reported.
Maharashtra and Delhi recorded their biggest single-day jump in cases, with the former reporting 3,752 fresh infections while the national capital recorded 2,877 cases. The surge came on a day when the number of people who have recovered from the disease crossed the significant milestone of 2 lakh.
Alarm bells are ringing in private hospitals across Delhi over resignations by nurses, compounding the healthcare crisis at a time when the Capital is battling surging coronavirus numbers. The nurses have been complaining of lack of essential PPEs, long and difficult working hours, and inadequate support from the authorities, amidst fear of contracting Covid-19.
California on Thursday started requiring people throughout the state to wear masks in most indoor settings and outdoors when distancing isn't possible as the coronavirus continues to spread.
As many as 2,141 persons tested positive for coronavirus in Tamil Nadu over the past 24 hours, the State Health Department said on Thursday. In a statement issued here, the Health Department said the new cases took the total tally to 52,334, while the number of Covid-19 patients who breathed their last went up by 49 to 625 persons as on Thursday.
Mainland China reported 32 new coronavirus cases as of the end of June 18, 25 of which were reported in the capital city Beijing, China's National Health Commission said on Friday. This compared with 28 confirmed cases a day earlier, 21 of which were in Beijing.