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Home / India News / PM Modi will lay the foundation stone for AIIMS Rajkot today “At 11 am tomorrow, December 31, the foundation stone of AIIMS, Rajkot, will be laid. This project will improve the health infrastructure in Gujarat, ”Prime Minister Modi announced on Twitter. India Updated: December 31, …

Ten more returnees from Britain tested positive for the mutant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus found in the UK on Wednesday, bringing the count of these patients in India to 17. With four cases each, Karnataka and Delhi accounted for 80% of the cases. loading of the new variant on …

Returnees from the UK who cannot be traced should be tested for the benefit of their own health and also to control their spread in case of infection, the Chief Minister said. The danger from the coronavirus has yet to abate and not the slightest ignorance regarding the pandemic has …

Tamizharuvi Manian said that “there is no value for honesty, truth and discipline” (Archive) Chennai: Renowned Tamil speaker Tamizharuvi Manian, a staunch supporter of superstar Rajinikanth, announced today that he is “leaving politics”, a day after the actor said he would not venture into politics. Without naming the actor or …

MUMBAI: Three more passengers who returned from the UK to the city after November 25 tested positive for Covid-19, bringing the total number of these patients to 15 so far. In the state, 11 new cases were added Tuesday, bringing the state count to 43. Samples from these patients will …

BENGALURU: Civic officials sealed off an apartment complex in Vasanthapura, Bommanahalli area, on Tuesday after its two residents with UK travel histories were reported to have contracted the new strain of the coronavirus. The Covid-19 prevention protocol requires BBMP to switch all contacts from such cases to institutional quarantine, but …

MUMBAI: The Covid-19 count in Maharashtra rose to 19,28,603 on Wednesday with the addition of 3,537 new cases, the state health department said. With 70 more people succumbing to the viral disease, the total death toll in the state rose to 49,463, he said. A total of 4,913 people were …

The Uttar Pradesh government has issued an alert after a case of a new strain of coronavirus, recently found in the UK, was detected in a two-year-old girl, according to the Hindustan Times’ sister publication Hindustan. The state health department has directed its officials and hospital staff to be more …

In a shot in the arm for India, the Coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University received emergency use authorization (US) from the UK. In India, the vaccine, called Covishield, which is being manufactured by the Serum Institute, is likely to gain regulatory approval within days. Development comes even …

NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: Amid fears over the UK’s confirmed new variant of the coronavirus that has forced governments around the world to take unprecedented precautionary measures, the new restrictions are likely to curb 2021 New Year’s revelries across the country. Several state governments across the country have taken preventive …