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Amid the surge in the COVID-19 cases across the nation, the Kathua administration is conducting COVID-19 tests for the people entering Jammu and Kashmir at the Lakhanpur area in Kathua district. "Lakhanpur is the gateway for Jammu and Kashmir. Lakhanpur has been declared as the red zone by the UT government," Deputy Commissioner of Kathua Rahul Yadav told ANI. "The test is being conducted for the people entering the UT," Yadav said. "The passengers who travel from any hotspot area, go throu...

As India’s daily tally of Covid-19 infections surged by a record 200,000-plus cases on two consecutive days, public health experts worry that a new -- possibly more virulent -- coronavirus variant could be racing through the crowded nation of more than 1.3 billion people. The new variant, which has a so-called double mutation, is thought to be fueling India’s deadlier new wave of infections that has made it the world’s second worst-hit country, surpassing Brazil, and has already begun t...

  New Delhi [India], April 17 (ANI): Ministry of Home Affairs on Friday decided to depute 25 medical officers and 75 paramedics at the upcoming 900 bedded DRDOs COVID hospital in Ahmedabad. In Delhi as well, Home Ministry has deputed the same number of staff for DRDOs COVID care in Delhi Cantonment, which will be reactivating soon. According to a communication, the Home Ministry has said, "The Chief Secretary, Gujarat has informed that DRDO is establishing a 900 bed hospital for COVID pati...

Amid the unrelenting coronavirus pandemic, ten US Senators have urged US President Joe Biden to support India and South Africas proposal to the WTO to temporarily lift certain intellectual property barriers and allow countries to locally manufacture COVID-19 diagnostics and vaccines. The senators, including Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, wrote a letter asking for a temporary waiver to ensure the effective and efficient response to this "once-in-a-lifetime" global pandemic. The Agreemen...

Read more about CM Kejriwal to review Covid-19 situation in Delhi as weeken curfew begins on Business Standard. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday will hold a meeting to review the COVID-19 situation as the national capital has been witnessing an exponential rise in coronavirus cases

Health Minister reviews availability of facilities across country amid surge India is currently reporting the sharpest growth rate of 7.6% in new COVID cases, which is 1.3 times higher than the growth rate of 5.5% reported in June 2020, Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said on Saturday. The Minister added that this is leading to an alarming rise in daily number of active cases and also a sharp growth of 10.2% in the number of COVID deaths. Dr. Vardhan chaired a high-level review meeting with Healt...

Hospital authorities said only emergency surgeries would be performed at the hospital till further orders. "In the meeting chaired by principal government medical college Srinagar, which was attended by all the heads of various departments of the college, it was decided that 12 wards would be designated as Covid wards in addition to the paid rooms at the hospital. "At present we have adequate supply of oxygen and other requirements to deal with COVID patients", said Nazir Chowdhary, superint...

Read more about India records highest single-day deaths at 1,341; 2,34,692 new Covid cases on Business Standard. A record single-day rise of2,34,692 cases and 1,341 fatalities have pushed Indias Covid-19 tally to 1,45,26,609 and the death toll due to the viral disease to 1,75,649

Odishas COVID-19 tally mounted to 3,64,594 as 3,144 more people tested positive for the infection, while four more fatalities pushed the coronavirus death toll to 1,942, a health department official said. Of the new cases, 1,823 were reported from quarantine centres and 1,321 detected during contact tracing, he said. Sundargarh recorded the maximum number of fresh cases at 523, followed by Khurda (497), Nuapada (395), Bargarh (156), Sambalpur (149), Cuttack (140), Puri (129), Keonjhar (128)...

Puducherry registered 715 fresh coronavirus cases during the last twenty-four hours ending 10 am on Saturday, raising the overall infection count to 47,108. Three more persons --two in Puducherry and one in Karaikal-- succumbed to death taking the toll to 705. While there were 4090 active cases, as many as 42,313 persons were discharged after recovery so far. Director of the Department of Health and Family Welfare services here, S Mohan Kumar said the 715 new cases were identified at the end...