Mumbai dabbawalas and staff from foreign consulates and high commissions can travel on local trains that currently operate only for essential services personnel, authorities said Wednesday. Dabbawalas, the famous lunch box carriers in Mumbai, said last month that there was never a six-month hiatus in the “130-year history of tiffin …
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White House Senior Adviser Stephen Miller is the latest in Donald Trump’s close circle to test positive for Covid-19 on Tuesday. Before him, several top officials have reported how to positively crush the myth of invincibility surrounding the White House. US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump tested …
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Prime Minister Yogi Adityanath virtually launched the BJP campaign for the November 3 general election on Sunday accusing the opposition of trying to provoke communal and caste unrest in the UP for political gain. Adityanath, without apparently referring to the buildup of opposition against his government over the Hathras shock, …
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US President Donald Trump has raised questions about the credibility of India’s Covid-19 count, stating that it was among the countries that did not accurately disclose the number of deaths due to the pandemic. Trump’s remarks came during his first presidential debate with Democratic challenger Joe Biden, who attacked the …
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The Maharashtra government said on Wednesday that the lockdown imposed to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus disease (Covid-19) has been extended until October 31. However, hotels, food courts, restaurants and bars will be able to operate from October 5 with 50% capacity, the state government added. The Central …
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Kerala, once lauded for its effective containment measures, has been among the big trouble spots in recent weeks. The state reported 6,324 new cases, the highest daily cases in the state so far, on Thursday. A day earlier, it had reported 5,376 cases, crossing the 5,000 mark for the first …
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India recorded 86,052 new Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the total count to close to 5.9 million. Active cases have risen to 9,70,116, while more than 4.75 million have been recovered so far. During the last six days, the number of recoveries recorded per day in the …
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As cases of coronavirus disease (Covid-19) exceed 30 million worldwide, the appeal of herd immunity as an end to the pandemic becomes increasingly persuasive. However, some countries, including India, have recently reconfirmed reinfection through genome sequencing to show that the second infection was caused by the genetically distinct Sars-CoV-2 virus, …
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The northwestern and southwestern districts of Delhi together accounted for almost one in three active Covid-19 cases in the capital, which is seeing an increase in cases, albeit thanks to higher testing. And Delhi’s most densely populated northeast district, which has around 40,000 people per km2, has only 894 active …
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Maharashtra is a clear outlier in terms of how it has been affected by the coronavirus disease (Covid-19). It ended on Wednesday with 1.12 million cases – it is the province with the most cases in the world – and 30,883 deaths, according to the HT panel. His cumulative positivity …
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