Schools reopening: Health Ministry issues standard operating procedure; check key details
The ministry issued the SOP in the wake of the Centre's decision to allow phase-wise unlocking of activities. It has issued generic preventive measures including simple public health measures that should be followed to reduce the risk of COVID-19.
Sep 08, 2020, 22:38 PM IST
eSanjeevani: Telemedicine service platform completes 3 lakh consultations, says Health Ministry
eSanjeevani supports two types of telemedicine services -- doctor-to-doctor through eSanjeevani and patient-to-doctor through eSanjeevani OPD, said an official statement on Tuesday.
Sep 08, 2020, 18:55 PM IST
School Reopening: Normal classes to resume in these states from September 21
Last month, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) had issued guidelines stating that schools and colleges will remain shut till September end, but they can call in 50% of their teachers for facilitating online teaching.
Sep 08, 2020, 18:17 PM IST
Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal launches e-filing consumer complaint system to help Delhiites during COVID-19 pandemic
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday (September 8, 2020) inaugurated the Delhi government's e-filing consumer complaint system, which aims to help Delhiites during the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic.
Sep 08, 2020, 16:53 PM IST
Care of elderly during COVID-19 pandemic: Supreme Court grants 4 weeks to states to file affidavits
The apex court also granted another four weeks' time to those states which have so far not filed affidavits to submit their responses.
Sep 07, 2020, 16:17 PM IST
After JEE Main, National Testing Agency gears up for medical entrance NEET
According to NTA officials, 15.97 lakh candidates from across the country have registered for NEET, which is a pen-paper based test unlike JEE.
Sep 06, 2020, 14:42 PM IST
Centre exhorts states to curb COVID-19 chain of transmission, bring mortality below 1%
In addition to the state Health Secretaries, District Collectors, Municipal Commissioners, and other district functionaries also participated in the digital review meeting.
Sep 04, 2020, 20:33 PM IST
Train services restart on select routes in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu
The Bengaluru-Mangaluru train would resume service on Friday, while the services from Mangaluru would start on September 6.
Sep 04, 2020, 16:50 PM IST
Bangladesh will get high priority in supply of COVID vaccine: MEA spokesperson Anurag Shrivastava
India has reiterated once again that when it comes to the COVID vaccine, Bangladesh will get a priority.
Sep 03, 2020, 22:32 PM IST
Delhi records highest spike in COVID-19 cases in 67 days; death count 4,500
With 19 more fatalities in the city, the death toll mounted to 4,500, it said. This is the third successive day in September in which over 2,000 new cases have been reported.
Sep 03, 2020, 22:09 PM IST
Onam festival: Karnataka extends bus services from Bengaluru and Mysuru to various parts of Kerala
Operation of bus services from Bengaluru and Mysuru to Kerala will end on September 7 and from Kerala on September 8.
Sep 03, 2020, 19:35 PM IST
Children have potential to transmit COVID-19 virus even if antibodies detected: Study
"With most viruses, when you start to detect antibodies, you won`t detect the virus anymore. But with COVID-19, we`re seeing both," said Burak Bahar, MD, lead author of the study and director of Laboratory Informatics at Children`s National.
Sep 03, 2020, 15:20 PM IST
CM Mamata Banerjee says 75% students of Bengal couldn't appear in JEE-Main
In other states, only half of the examinees managed to turn up due to the COVID-19 pandemic situation, Mamata claimed.
Sep 03, 2020, 01:39 AM IST
COVID-19 impact: Australia's economy takes sharpest dive since Great Depression-era of 1930s
Australia's economy suffered its sharpest economic contraction since the Great Depression due to the pandemic, with data released Wednesday confirming the country is in its first recession in 28 years. The economy shrank 7% in June, the biggest contraction since records began in 1959, the government reported.
Sep 02, 2020, 22:49 PM IST
PM CARES Fund received Rs 3,076 crore in just 5 days of formation: Account statement
The 'receipt and payment account' showed nearly Rs 3,075.85 crore as 'voluntary contributions', while Rs 39.67 lakh came as foreign contributions.
Sep 02, 2020, 20:23 PM IST
No Question Hour in Monsoon session of Parliament; Opposition flays move
Congress leader Shashi Tharoor tweeted, "Questioning the government is the oxygen of parliamentary democracy. This Govt seeks to reduce Parliament to a notice-board and uses its crushing majority as a rubber-stamp for whatever it wants to pass. The one mechanism to promote accountability has now been done away with."
Sep 02, 2020, 19:04 PM IST
COVID-19: One vaccine would be sufficient to combat global infections, says study
The study was conducted by a team of scientists from the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research led by Morgane Rolland, chief of viral genetics and systems serology for the WRAIR Military HIV Research Program and Dr Kayvon Modjarrad, director of the institute`s Emerging Infectious Diseases Program.
Sep 02, 2020, 16:28 PM IST
A fifth of Chennai people exposed to COVID-19, says Sero survey; Tamil Nadu records 5,928 new cases with 96 deaths
"Overall, one-fifth of the population in Chennai was exposed to SARS-CoV-2 (the virus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) infection," the GCC said in its preliminary finding.
Sep 02, 2020, 02:09 AM IST
Maharashtra records 15,765 new COVID-19 cases with 320 death; tally crosses 8 lakh mark
There are 1,98,523 active cases in the state, 5,84,537 patients have recovered from the deadly disease across the state till Tuesday, while 10,978 patients were discharged today, said the bulletin.
Sep 02, 2020, 01:56 AM IST
Unlock 4: States further ease COVID-19 restrictions; Bars and hotels reopen, buses ply
Many states have come out with their set of rules related to relaxations permitted outside the containment zones, though they were, by and large, following the Centre's August 29 guidelines on prohibiting activities of schools, colleges, cinema halls, etc till September 30.
Sep 01, 2020, 22:40 PM IST
