Edited by Swati Bhasin | Wednesday April 01, 2020, New Delhi
The families of health personnel in Delhi, who lose their lives while handling cases of coronavirus or COVID-19, will be given Rs 1 crore, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said this afternoon, as he called them "no less than soldiers".
Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) are developing two robots which can be deployed in isolation wards for COVID-19 infected cases for delivery of food and medicine to patients and collection of contagious waste.
Two persons infected with coronavirus have died in West Bengal, taking the total number of COVID-19 deaths in the state to six, a health department official said today.
The Health Ministry today called for providing a social protection to migrant workers, saying they are prone to social, psychological and emotional trauma in lockdown situations.
Written by Maya Sharma | Wednesday April 01, 2020, Bengaluru
In March, Infosys Foundation and Dr Devi Shetty of Narayana Health had promised the Karnataka government to help in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. They have kept that promise with the opening of a 100-bed quarantine hospital on the outskirts of Bengaluru to help the needs of the economically weaker section.
In Panjim, Goa's capital, 73-year-old Fatima Alvares says that despite her age, she has always been an independent woman. "But now with the curfew and with my age, I can't do anything... I am completely handicapped now," she says.
Railways is scrambling to provide information regarding thousands of passengers who travelled on five trains with people who participated in the Tablighi Jamaat congregation in Delhi, many of whom have tested positive.
Edited by Deepshikha Ghosh | Wednesday April 01, 2020, New Delhi
After a religious gathering in Delhi at the headquarters of the Tablighi Jamaat sect emerged as one of the country's top coronavirus hotspots, its chief cleric Maulana Saad and six others have been charged by the police.
Senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal today took a dig at the government, saying there were two India's with one at home doing yoga, watching Ramayan and playing antakshari, and the other trying to reach home and fighting for survival.
Edited by Debanish Achom | Wednesday April 01, 2020, New Delhi
The government has tweeted a meme with a scene from a Harry Potter movie to drive home a message amid the COVID-19 pandemic - stay at home. The highly contagious novel coronavirus spreads through respiratory droplets and surface contact, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO), which has necessitated a pan-India lockdown and social isolation.
Written by Purva Chitnis | Wednesday April 01, 2020, Mumbai
A week into the nationwide lockdown to fight novel coronavirus or COVID-19, many hospitals are struggling to offer treatment to those having chronic diseases - such as cancer or HIV- as majority of resources are being used to deal with rising number of COVID-19 cases.
India today welcomed Afghan President Ashraf Ghani's decision to form a team for intra-Afghan negotiation, hoping that the "positive step" would help in freeing Afghanistan from the scourge of "externally sponsored" terrorism.
A 36-hour operation to evacuate 2,361 people from a building in south Delhi's Nizamuddin, which is the nation's biggest coronavirus hotspot, was completed early Wednesday morning, Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said
Amid the lockdown due to coronavirus, nearly 2,000 foreign tourists are stranded in Goa and efforts are underway to send them to their respective countries, a tourism body said today.
Karnataka Health Minister B Sriramulu on Wednesday said about 300 people from the state had attended the religious congregation of Tablighi Jamaat at Nizamuddin Markaz Masjid in Delhi last month, and 40 of them have been identified and quarantined.
