Seven Indian nationals were among 74 new coronavirus cases reported in Singapore on Wednesday, the highest daily increase in COVID-19 positive patients in the country. The total number of infections is 1,000. Twenty of the new cases are imported, with a travel history to Australia, Europe, South America, Africa, ASEAN and other parts of Asia, said the Ministry.
After introducing a pay cut for all employees on March 25 as the coronavirus pandemic drastically impacted the aviation sector, GoAir CEO Vinay Dube told the employees on Wednesday that a portion of their March's salary has been deferred to April.
Even as researchers across the world work overtime to understand the evolution of the virus that causes the disease COVID-19, scientists have identified at least eight strains of coronavirus doing the rounds globally.
Three more tested positive in Punjab on Wednesday, taking the total number of cases to 44, officials said.
As many as six new cases of novel coronavirus have been reported from Noida area of Uttar Pradesh. According to the details, the new cases have been reported from Gautam Budh Nagar, taking the total in Noida to 45.
For the findings, the researchers used a unique combination of case reports, human movement data and public health intervention information to investigate the spread and control of COVID-19. They examined the movements of 4.3 million people out of Wuhan before the travel ban, the types and timing of control measures implemented across the cities of China and the numbers of COVID-19 cases reported each day in every city.
It has become a grim ritual outside New York City’s hospitals: workers in protective gear loading the bodies of coronavirus victims into refrigerated trailers.
According to the MIT researcher, "owing to the forward momentum of the cloud, pathogen-bearing droplets are propelled much farther than if they were emitted in isolation without a turbulent puff cloud trapping and carrying them forward". She explained that that the range of the droplets, both large and small, is extended through their interaction with and trapping within the turbulent gas cloud.
Coronavirus in Uttar Pradesh: A 25-year-old man from Uttar Pradesh has died due to coronavirus in Gorakhpur. With this, the state reported its first fatality, where the tally has reached 100. Meanwhile, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath is taking strict actions to ensure lockdown orders are being followed in the state.
The death count from coronavirus rose to five in West Bengal. On tuesday the death of COVID-19 infected women triggered demonstrations by nurses of a state-run hospital who alleged that the authorities had refused to keep her in isolation.
Coronavirus Live Updates: The global death toll due to novel coronavirus has crossed the 45 thousand-mark, while the total confirmed cases stand at 9,12,098.
The Centre on Tuesday asserted that there is no shortage of medicines to combat the coronavirus outbreak and the Department of Pharmaceuticals (DoP) is regularly monitoring the distribution and addressing issues with the help of other departments, states and Union Territories.
Budget carrier SpiceJet has decided to cut up to 30 per cent salary of its employees in March with Chairman Ajay Singh opting for highest 30 per cent trimming in compensation, the airline said in an e-mail communication to the staff on Tuesday.
At least a dozen hotels have been roped in by the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) to offer quarantine facilities to people at a price in the state capital, while similar arrangements have been made in around 26 hotels in neighbouring Cuttack as part of measures taken by the state government to contain the spread of COVID-19, they said.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Centre to rope in community leaders of various faiths to conduct 'bhajan-kirtan' and 'namaz' to check panic among migrant workers in shelter homes amid the coronavirus outbreak.
The Dalai Lama has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressing his support to the measures being taken by India, within the country, and among SAARC nations, to contain the spread of the deadly coronavirus.
Amid the rising graph of coronavirus cases in the country, over 20,000 houses have been marked as ''home quarantine'' by the Delhi government in the wake of the novel coronavirus outbreak, Lieutenant Governor (LG) Anil Baijal said on Tuesday.
Maharashtra has reported a total of 225 coronavirus confirmed cases after 5 new cases emerged in the state on Monday. The state death toll stands at 8 while 25 people have recovered from COVID-19. Out of 225 cases in Maharashtra, Mumbai has the highest number of cases at 81 after one more case was reported on Monday.
Five members of a family have contracted COVID-19 from another member who was already infected with coronavirus in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh.
Nizamuddin Religious Congregation amid Coronavirus Pandemic: 24 people who attended the Tabligh-e-Jamaat congregation in Delhi's Nizamuddin from March 1-15 have been found coronavirus positive, Delhi Health Minister Satyendra Jain said.
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