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[ad_1] India’s count of coronavirus disease (Covid-19) stood at 59,662 after 3,320 new cases and 95 deaths were reported in the past 24 hours, the Union health ministry said on Saturday. According to the control panel of the health ministry at 8 am, there are 39,834 active cases and 17,847 …

[ad_1] Washington: The US is working to temporarily ban the issuance of some work-based visas like H-1B, popular among highly-skilled Indian IT professionals, as well as students visas and work authorization that accompanies them, amidst the high level of unemployment due to the coronavirus, according to a media report on …

[ad_1] A detailed analysis of the test data suggests that there is no strong link between test rates and death rates in all countries. However, the analysis suggests that countries that have been able to test more have also been able to ease blocking restrictions more or earlier, suggesting that …

[ad_1] India can draw up a negative list of activities that are prohibited to help free the country from the blockade. The strategy aims to open up more of the economy and avoid the kind of confusion that has allowed district administrations to be more restrictive than anticipated. The government …

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: The Center is committed to states like Maharashtra, Gujarat and Delhi, which have shown a worrying peak in Covid-19 cases with serious gaps in contact tracing, quarantine and containment efforts that threaten to skew the national graph. The deterioration in the doubling time of 12 to 10 …

[ad_1] Migrant workers queue to undergo medical exams before boarding Shramik special trains to return to their home states on Friday (Express photo: Gurmeet Singh) The deaths of 16 migrant workers who were hit by an empty freight train in the Aurangabad district of Maharashtra brought focus back to the …

[ad_1] India’s COVID-19 count advanced to 60,000 marks today as states reported more than 3,000 cases of coronavirus for the third day in a row. The total number of coronavirus patients in the country increased to 59,662. Maharashtra continued to add more than 1,000 cases to the account even on …

[ad_1] Migrant workers continue to walk and bike home, even as railroads began operating special trains last week and some state governments deployed buses for stranded people due to the Covid-19 blockade. Some do not have the necessary documents to register on the trains; others just don’t want to wait …

[ad_1] Mike Pence’s press secretary, Katie Miller, tested positive for coronavirus on Friday, President Donald Trump said, delaying the vice president’s departure for a trip to Iowa. She is the second person working at the executive residence to contract the virus this week. The White House did not officially announce …

[ad_1] Two flights with a total of 335 people from the Gulf countries landed at both Kerala airports on Friday night, when India’s Vande Bharat Mission to carry their stranded nationals due to the closure of Covid-19 in various countries entered on the second day. While an Air India repatriation …