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Highlights It has been issued by the Centres Scientific adviser The new advisory stresses that wearing masks, maintaining distance, adequate sanitation and proper indoor ventilation are key to stopping the coronavirus. New Delhi: In order to strengthen the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, the Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India has issued new guidelines to check the spread of Covid-19 across the country. The new COVID-19 guidelines stress that wearing mas...

  The ICMR said the home testing mobile app is available in Google play store and Apple store and must be downloaded by all users, adding that the mobile app is a comprehensive guide of the testing procedure and will provide a positive or negative test result to the patient.     All users are advised to click a picture of the test strip after completing the test procedure with the same mobile phone which has been used for downloading the mobile app and user registration. "Data in the app of ...

Now a maximum of 25 people will be permitted in weddings and other functions in Uttar Pradesh. 

Source: Highlights American vaccines effective against COVID strain first found in India, the US health officials have said The B.1.617 virus variant, first identified in India last year, has been classified as a variant of concern at the global level by the WHO Washington: COVID-19 vaccines that are available in the United States are effective against the deadly variant that was first detected in India, top US health officials said on Tuesday. The B.1.617 virus variant, first identified in In...

Highlights He has been advised to stay in home isolation Kolkata: Former West Bengal Chief Minister and eminent Left Front leader Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, who has been suffering from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) for the last few days and his wife Mira Bhattacharya have tested positive for COVID-19. Though Mira Bhattacharya has been sent to the hospital, the CPI(M) leader has been advised to stay in home isolation. "Swab samples of Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, his wife and their attend...

  This is the third day on the trot that the number of new cases has remained below 5,000. The COVID-19 situation has been improving in Delhi with the number of cases and the positivity rate going down steadily in the past few days. Medical experts have held the lockdown as the main factor behind the dip amid the second wave of the Health Minister Satyendar Jain said the situation in Delhi was improving at an appreciable rate, but "our target should be to bring down the positivity rate to tw...

Highlights The Haryana government on Sunday (May 16, 2021) announced that the COVID-induced lockdown in the state will remain in place for one more week. Now the lockdown curbs in the state will remain in place till May 24. New Delhi: The Haryana government on Sunday (May 16, 2021) announced that the COVID-induced lockdown in the state will remain in place for one more week. Now the lockdown curbs in the state will remain in place till May 24. Making the announcement on Twitter, Home and Healt...

In the view of rising COVID-19 cases in the country, the Assam government on Saturday (May 15, 2021) issued fresh directives that will be imposed from Sunday (May 16, 2021) until further orders. 

Lavania has issued the order using the Meanwhile, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Sunday claimed that the COVID-19 positivity rate in Madhya Pradesh has come down from 24 per cent earlier to 10.68 per cent now, with some districts showing less than five detections per 100 tests. In a video clip released to media outlets, the CM claimed "we have been successful in containing the pandemic" as the positivity rate was "falling day by day". Chouhan said that treatment is being offered in t...

Highlights In view of the rising COVID-19 cases, Tamil Nadu has tightened the lockdown restrictions. It has now capped the timings of the grocery shops to 4 hours amongst other things. New Delhi: In view of the rising COVID-19 cases, Tamil Nadu has tightened the lockdown restrictions by capping the timings of the grocery shops to 4 hours amongst other things.  The new curbs have come into effect from 4 AM May 15. As per the new restrictions during Tamil Nadu lockdown, the working hours of st...