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Highlights Devotees will not be allowed at places of worship, only staff can perform rituals. Earlier, the Tamil Nadu government had announced several curbs including night curfew and complete lockdown on Sundays. New Delhi: The Tamil Nadu government on Saturday (April 24) announced stringent measures in order to tackle the worrisome spike in COVID-19 cases.  The lockdown-like restrictions will come into force from 4 am on April 26.  Here is a list of all that will be closed from Monday:  ...

Source: IANS Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Saturday announced free COVID vaccination for all the eligible beneficiaries in the state. "It will cost Rs 2,500 crore to vaccinate everybody and money is not that important when it comes to health," said Rao. He said the state has a population of nearly 4 crore, including people from different states who have come to work in various sectors. According to Rao, 35 lakh people have already undergone vaccination and all the e...

The E Palaniswami-led government in Tamil Nadu had recently announced several restrictions, including a night curfew, ban on tourists at hill stations and a total lockdown on Sundays, with essential services exempted. According to the police, the violators of the lockdown measures will be penalised. 

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Highlights Both the countries say their decision to ban flights to India would be reviewed later Dubai: The governments of UAE and Canada have announced to ban flights from Indian amid the worsening COVID-19 situation in the country.  According to reports, the UAE has banned travel from India for 10 days from Sunday due to the worsening The UAE travel ban will come into effect from 11.59 pm on Saturday, April 24, and is subject to review after 10 days, the Gulf News reported. Passengers who ...

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 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...