Coronavirus Delhi Hotspots

The farmers' protests at the Delhi borders have turned into Covid hotspots and are responsible for the spread of the disease in rural areas, the Haryana government has told the Centre

At least 13 students and four staff members of Delhi University's St. Stephen's College tested positive for COVID-19 on Friday, leading to enforcement of stringent COVID-19 protocols on the campus.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday said that his government has sought the Centre's go-ahead to allow it to shut for a few days markets that may emerge as COVID-19 hotspots amid a COVID-19 surge in the national capital.

The National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) in its revised strategy for COVID-19 control in Delhi has recommended rationalising contact-tracing after workplaces in the city started emerging as hotspots of coronavirus.

A maximum of 30 per cent people in urban hotspots and containment zones have unknowingly contracted and recovered from coronavirus, a survey of the general population has showed. The sero-survey conducted by the Indian Council of Medical Research, the nodal body in the fight against coronavirus was carried out across 60 districts and 6 urban hotspo...

The government of Maharashtra -- the biggest hotspot of coronavirus in the country with more than 90,000 cases -- has emphatically denied all reports of a community transmission. "I don't believe there is community spread. This is the assumption in my state," state health minister Rajesh Tope said in the backdrop of concerns about community spread ...

Around 2,300 foreigners who had come to India to attend a congregation organised by the Islamic group Tablighi Jamaat in March have been blacklisted for 10 years. The event in Delhi's Nizamuddin area, which violated curbs on large gatherings, had emerged as a major hotspot for coronavirus in India.

The administration in Noida, Delhi's neighbouring city in Uttar Pradesh, has said that "status quo" will be maintained for now or that people will not be allowed to enter Noida from the capital, hours after the Uttar Pradesh government said people in Delhi can travel to Noida and Ghaziabad. The final call on allowing entry into the two cities lies ...

The number of coronavirus patients in the national capital crossing 3,500, the Delhi government today upped its surveillance measures in containment zones, declaring that instead of once, the screening of all people in these areas will be done thrice in 14 days. If screening in any containment zone has not been conducted yet, it will be done within...

With vehicles off the road and most industries shut for over a month due to the coronavirus lockdown, some pollution hotspots in Mumbai and Delhi have turned into green zones recording minimal or no pollution.

Eight people, including two children, were intercepted at a picket in central Delhi on Thursday when they were travelling to Bihar in a car amid the lockdown on a fake curfew pass, officials said.

Delhi has got its first van to test for COVID-19, a move that will enable health officials to collect samples at doorsteps even in densely populated areas. The van is running in central Delhi areas and started collecting samples from Chandni Mahal, the second-biggest COVID-19 hotspot in the national capital.

Delhi district officials deployed in coronavirus containment zones and quarantine centres say a number of residents have flooded them with odd demands, like chicken biryani, mutton, pizza, sweets and hot samosas, keeping them on their toes during the lockdown.

Soon after procuring rapid antibody test kits, the Delhi government on Sunday began testing people for coronavirus in various containment zones spread across the city, officials said.

Delhi Chief Secretary Vijay Dev has asked all district magistrates to use the new ''Assess Koro Na'' app for door-to-door survey in COVID-19 containment zones to speed up decision-making by analysing real-time data.

The farmers' protests at the Delhi borders have turned into Covid hotspots and are responsible for the spread of the disease in rural areas, the Haryana government has told the Centre

At least 13 students and four staff members of Delhi University's St. Stephen's College tested positive for COVID-19 on Friday, leading to enforcement of stringent COVID-19 protocols on the campus.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday said that his government has sought the Centre's go-ahead to allow it to shut for a few days markets that may emerge as COVID-19 hotspots amid a COVID-19 surge in the national capital.

The National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) in its revised strategy for COVID-19 control in Delhi has recommended rationalising contact-tracing after workplaces in the city started emerging as hotspots of coronavirus.

A maximum of 30 per cent people in urban hotspots and containment zones have unknowingly contracted and recovered from coronavirus, a survey of the general population has showed. The sero-survey conducted by the Indian Council of Medical Research, the nodal body in the fight against coronavirus was carried out across 60 districts and 6 urban hotspo...

The government of Maharashtra -- the biggest hotspot of coronavirus in the country with more than 90,000 cases -- has emphatically denied all reports of a community transmission. "I don't believe there is community spread. This is the assumption in my state," state health minister Rajesh Tope said in the backdrop of concerns about community spread ...

Around 2,300 foreigners who had come to India to attend a congregation organised by the Islamic group Tablighi Jamaat in March have been blacklisted for 10 years. The event in Delhi's Nizamuddin area, which violated curbs on large gatherings, had emerged as a major hotspot for coronavirus in India.

The administration in Noida, Delhi's neighbouring city in Uttar Pradesh, has said that "status quo" will be maintained for now or that people will not be allowed to enter Noida from the capital, hours after the Uttar Pradesh government said people in Delhi can travel to Noida and Ghaziabad. The final call on allowing entry into the two cities lies ...

The number of coronavirus patients in the national capital crossing 3,500, the Delhi government today upped its surveillance measures in containment zones, declaring that instead of once, the screening of all people in these areas will be done thrice in 14 days. If screening in any containment zone has not been conducted yet, it will be done within...

With vehicles off the road and most industries shut for over a month due to the coronavirus lockdown, some pollution hotspots in Mumbai and Delhi have turned into green zones recording minimal or no pollution.

Eight people, including two children, were intercepted at a picket in central Delhi on Thursday when they were travelling to Bihar in a car amid the lockdown on a fake curfew pass, officials said.

Delhi has got its first van to test for COVID-19, a move that will enable health officials to collect samples at doorsteps even in densely populated areas. The van is running in central Delhi areas and started collecting samples from Chandni Mahal, the second-biggest COVID-19 hotspot in the national capital.

Delhi district officials deployed in coronavirus containment zones and quarantine centres say a number of residents have flooded them with odd demands, like chicken biryani, mutton, pizza, sweets and hot samosas, keeping them on their toes during the lockdown.

Soon after procuring rapid antibody test kits, the Delhi government on Sunday began testing people for coronavirus in various containment zones spread across the city, officials said.

Delhi Chief Secretary Vijay Dev has asked all district magistrates to use the new ''Assess Koro Na'' app for door-to-door survey in COVID-19 containment zones to speed up decision-making by analysing real-time data.