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Highlights Only symptomatic health care workers will be tested, quarantined, Delhi AIIMS has said The decision was taken in view of the current situation of COVID-19 leading to insufficient resources for contact tracing, and shortages of staff. New Delhi: The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) has said that only the symptomatic health care workers will be tested for COVID-19 and only those testing positive will be isolated and the quarantine of asymptomatic contacts will be discon...

Highlights It will remain in effect till Monday 7 am. All non-essential activities will be restricted. New Delhi: The Uttar Pradesh government has imposed a weekend curfew in the entire state and a night curfew during weekdays in all districts having more than 500 cases. The move is aimed to curb the Covid-19 spread. While the night curfew in the districts with 500-plus cases will be effective from 8 pm to 7 am next day starting Tuesday, the weekend curfew will be enforced from Friday 8 pm to M...

Highlights At 9 AM,he will hold an internal meeting to review the COVID-19 situation. NEW DELHI: In view of the prevailing COVID-19 crisis in the nation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday (April 22) cancelled his visit to poll-bound West Bengal and said that he will chair high-level meetings to review the situation. Informing through a tweet, the PM said that he will chair high-level meetings on Friday due to which he will be unable to visit Bengal. "Tomorrow will be chairing high-level ...

Highlights Amid severe oxygen crisis, PM Modi reviewed the COVID-19 situation with high-burden states CMs of Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Kerala, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Delhi are among those who attended the meeting New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a high-level meeting on Friday with the chief ministers of 10 states with the most number of COVID-19 cases. The meeting via video conferencing comes amid a huge surge in coronavirus cases, which have now clocked a daily total o...

Highlights 25 patients have died at Delhis Sir Ganga Ram Hospital due to a serious oxygen supply crisis "Lives of another 60 sickest patients is at risk. Major crisis likely," a source said. New Delhi: At least twenty-five "sickest" COVID-19 patients have died at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in the last 24 hours, and the lives of another 60 such patients are at risk, the hospital said on Friday. This comes amid a A source said, "low-pressure oxygen" could be the likely cause for the deaths. "The ...

Highlights Amid severe oxygen crisis, PM Modi reviewed the COVID-19 situation with high-burden states CMs of Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Kerala, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Delhi are among those who attended the meeting New Delhi: Central government sources on Friday said that Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal used his meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the COVID-19 situation as a platform to play politics over a serious issue and evade responsibility. Govt sources said Delhi...

Highlights The order will be effective from 12 noon of April 26 New Delhi: The West Bengal government on Friday (April 23) announced that all flight passengers travelling coming from Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Chhattisgarh will have to mandatorily carry a negative RT-PCR test report for COVID-19 to enter the state. The decision comes amid sharp increase in the number of new coronavirus cases in these states. It will be effective from 12 noon of April 26. “Government of ...

Highlights Curfew to remain enforced from 10pm to 5 am Curfew to remain imposed until month-end New Delhi: After Telangana, now Andhra Pradesh government on Friday (April 23) announced night curfew to be imposed in the state starting April 24 in view of rising cases of coronavirus COVID-19. As per the notification, the curfew will remain in effect from 10 pm to 5 am next morning until month-end.  Meanwhile, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy has announced free COVID-19 vaccinat...

Taking suo motu cognisance of the prevailing grim situation across the country, a bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde said it would also consider the matter pertaining to the method and manner of COVID-19 vaccination in the country.

The decision has been taken "in view of the increased need to minimize the possibility of community spread of ongoing COVID-19 epidemic and also to optimize diversion of available manpower and materials resources for the treatment of suspected/confirmed patients of COVID-19.