NEW DELHI: The Ministry of the Interior (MHA) has issued a clarification regarding its letter to the Punjab government regarding ‘bonded laborers’ employed on state farms. The statement said that a section of the media wrongly reported that the ministry in its letter made “serious accusations against farmers in the …
Read More »IPL 2021 – Delhi Capitals’ Axar Patel Tests Positive for Covid-19
News Becomes second IPL player after Nitish Rana to test positive after entering biobubble in Mumbai Axar Patel, the SUV from Delhi Capitals, has tested positive for Covid-19. Patel had checked into the team’s hotel in Mumbai on March 28 after arriving with a negative Covid-19 report, but has since …
Read More »Karnataka Minister of Health, K Sudhakar
K Sudhakar said that strict measures were unavoidable. Bangalore, April 3 (PTI): Hinting that there is no relaxation in the new set of guidelines issued by the state government, amid pressure from various quarters, Karnataka Health Minister K Sudhakar said on Saturday that it was inevitable to take certain strict …
Read More »Enrollment for health vaccination campaigns, front-line staff stopped
The Health Ministry on Saturday halted new registrations of healthcare and frontline workers to receive coronavirus vaccines, citing a barrage of registrations of ineligible people in these categories in recent days at centers across the country. New registrations will now not be accepted for people in these two categories, who …
Read More »No change in home quarantine rules, asymptomatic patients or people with mild symptoms to observe 17 days of quarantine: BMC
The oldest Bombay The Municipal Corporation Public Health Department issued revised detailed guidelines on home quarantine for COVID-19 infected patients. According to the circular, patients with mild symptoms or those who are asymptomatic must observe a total of seventeen days of a home quarantine period without reduction, the administration said. …
Read More »Mumbai Records Highest Daily Peak of Over 9,000 COVID Cases – Check State Count
Representative image | Photo credit: PTI Bombay: Maharashtra recorded 49,447 COVID-19 cases on Saturday, its highest peak in a single day since the start of the pandemic that brought the count to 29,53,523. According to the state health department, 277 people have died from the disease within 24 hours, bringing …
Read More »Covid-19 Lockdown 2021 India Highlights: Mumbai Reports 9,090 New Cases, Odisha to Impose Night Curfew in 10 Districts
Maharashtra alone reported 47,827 new cases of Covid-19 on Friday, the highest since the pandemic began. New (daily) cases of coronavirus in India approached the critical mark of 90,000 on Saturday, several states and Union Territories (UT) announced stricter Covid-19 rules such as restrictions on movements, night curfew, enclosures (in …
Read More »Healthcare Workers No Longer Eligible to Register for Vaccine, Government Says to Expand Scope of Campaign
On Saturday, the Center directed states and UT that new registrations of healthcare and frontline workers will not be allowed, as some ineligible beneficiaries in this category were obtaining their names for COVID-19 vaccination in violation of the rules. Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan, in a letter, said that registration …
Read More »5,000 page charge sheet filed in Hathras case against 8 men PFI India News
AGRA / LUCKNOW: A five-member team Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (UPSTF) filed a charge sheet for a 5,000 page document against eight members of the Front of India Campus (CFI), Student Wing of the Popular Front of India (PFI), before a Mathura court on Saturday, accusing them of receiving …
Read More »Maharashtra Oxygen Alarm Bells, Hospital Beds Running Out, Cylinder Shortage
A severe shortage has skyrocketed the prices of oxygen cylinders across Maharashtra. Aurangabad, where positivity rates were the highest in the state at the end of March, is particularly hard hit, with all oxygenated beds occupied for the weekend and patients desperately seeking treatment at home. The 2,214 oxygen beds …
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