Pakistan has asked 12 officials of the Indian High Commission (IHC) here to quarantine, along with their family members and drivers, after one of them tested positive for the coronavirus since their arrival from India last week, the Foreign Office said.
With the Covid second wave sweeping through the state, the Indian Army on Saturday augmented the medical infrastructure of state administration by setting up a 100-bed Covid Care Centre at Ulsoor in Bengaluru.
Sir H.N. Reliance Foundation Hospital (RFH) has scaled up its operations towards management of adult and paediatric beds in the city and to support the efforts of the Maharashtra government and the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).
The Uttar Pradesh government has set up Covid Care Centres at Reserve Police Lines across 66 districts of Uttar Pradesh for police personnel.
The Guru Tegh Bahadur COVID Care Centre at the Gurdwara Rakab Ganj Sahib in central Delhi is starting operations from Monday afternoon with 300 beds.
Gautam Buddh Nagar on Thursday reported 10 fatalities. The death toll reached 288 in Ghaziabad and 271 in Gautam Buddh Nagar with a cumulative 559 fatalities in the two neighboring districts, according to data released by the Uttar Pradesh Health Department for a 24-hour period.
Noida CMO has informed BJP MLA Pankaj Singh that there is no shortage of hospital beds but oxygen supply is a concern.
The Manipur government on Thursday declared the whole of the Greater Imphal area as a containment zone with immediate effect for seven days in view of the rise in COVID-19 cases
West Central Railways has deployed 20 isolation coaches at Bhopal station, which will become operational from Sunday.
The use of mobile phones by patients has been banned by the Uttar Pradesh government in isolation wards of L-2 and L-3 dedicated COVID-19 hospitals.
As many as 313 coaches in the South Western Railway (SWR) Zone have been converted into quarantine centres comprising 2,400 isolation wards to combat noval coronavirus, Union Minister of State Suresh Angadi has said.
The Indian Railways is preparing to convert train coaches into isolation wards to fight against the coronavirus pandemic and meet the increasing demand for beds in the isolation wards.
The Indian Railways have turned the non-air-conditioned train coaches as an isolation ward for treating coronavirus patients. The Northern Railway on Saturday unveiled a prototype of a non-AC train coach-turned-coronavirus isolation ward.
In an "unusual" trend on coronavirus affliction, a 22-year-old Dubai-returned Chandigarh resident developed symptoms for coronavirus infection and tested positive for it a day after the expiry of the 14-day incubation period of the virus during which he had stayed in home quarantine.
The Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan has offered its school buildings for setting up a temporary isolation facility for suspected coronavirus cases, KVS officials said on Friday.
Continuous surveillance and testing for the novel coronavirus are critical for identifying and preventing the transmission of 'silent infections' by people who do not show any symptoms but carry the virus that causes the deadly COVID-19 disease, according to a leading virologist.
A senior superintendent of police in Kashmir on Thursday went into isolation after his mother-in-law was tested positive for coronavirus, with several of his colleagues and bureaucrats hailing the move.
Indian Navy has issued a set of guidelines on Monday to prevent coronavirus infection and transmission.
Railway hospitals have been provided with over 1,000 isolation beds for treating suspected coronavirus cases and more than 12,000 beds for quarantining them at different locations, an official statement said on Wednesday.
Riyadh: Saudi Arabia will establish a 50-bed exclusive isolation ward at Arafat Hospital in Mecca during the Haj pilgrimage as a preventive measure against the Ebola virus and other communicable diseases, Arab News reported on
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