HEALTH

COVID-19: 44 Texas University students test positive after spring break trip

5:35 pm April 2, 2020

Houston: Forty four students of the University of Texas in the US have tested positive for COVID-19 after they returned from a spring break trip to Mexico, avoiding social-distancing guidelines amid the coronavirus pandemic. The university, which is in Austin, had previously confirmed only 28 coronavirus cases. About 70 students flew on a chartered plane […]

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About 9,000 Tablighi Jamaat members, primary contacts quarantined

5:26 pm April 2, 2020

New Delhi: About 9,000 Tablighi Jamaat members and their primary contacts have been quarantined till now across the country in view of the coronavirus infection, a senior home ministry official said on Thursday. Punya Salila Srivastava, a joint secretary in the Union Home Ministry, told reporters during a daily briefing that out of about 2,000 such Tablighi Jamaat members […]

Migrants arrival in Bihar posed unmanageable crisis but it was averted: Sushil Modi

5:21 pm April 2, 2020

New Delhi: The unexpected arrival of tens of thousands of migrants amid the lockdown posed an “unmanageable” crisis for Bihar but it was defused with a number of effective measures, state Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi said on Thursday. The state government decentralised its efforts by turning one school in every panchayat into a […]

Significant improvement in air quality across India due to coronavirus lockdown: CPCB

5:02 pm April 2, 2020

New Delhi: The nationwide ”Janta Curfew” followed by the 21-day lockdown to combat the coronavirus outbreak have led to a significant reduction in pollution in the country with 91 cities recording air quality in the ”good” and ”satisfactory” category on March 29, a Central Pollution Control Board report has stated. Travel restrictions and closure of […]

Coronavirus helplines either busy or unreachable, complain users

4:57 pm April 2, 2020

New Delhi: When over the counter paracetamols did not help abate Delhi-based Ankur Tiwari’s low-grade fever, sore throat and breathlessness, he tried calling up the COVID-19 helplines to check if he needed to get tested for the fatal virus, but to no avail. “The numbers were either busy or did not connect at all. I […]