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Uttarakhand CM says weekend lockdown helpful in clamping COVID-19 spread
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], July 19 (ANI): Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat on Saturday justified the weekend lockdown in four districts of the State, pointing out that it will help to clamp down on Covid-19 transmissions, especially super-spreaders of the virus.
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Kerala govt attempts to break COVID-19 transmission chain
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], July 18 (ANI): Kerala Health Minister KK Shailaja on Saturday said that the state government is trying to break the chain of transmission from one cluster to another to contain the spread of COVID-19.
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Health Ministry directs Bihar, Odisha, WB, Assam to suppress covid transmi
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi, [India], July 18 (ANI): The Union Health Ministry has directed the government of Bihar, Odisha, West Bengal and Assam to take necessary steps to suppress COVID-19 transmission as well as to keep case fatality rate below 1 per cent.
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Study reveals air pollution could help London transport planners fight COV
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
London [UK], June 26 (ANI): Measuring air quality across London could help fight COVID-19 by providing a rapid means of deciding whether to reduce public transport movement - given strong links between exposure to air pollution and COVID-19 transmission, a new study reveals.
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Chain of COVID-19 transmission broken in Indore: Chief Medical and Health
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Indore (Madhya Pradesh) [India], June 17 (ANI): The transmission chain of coronavirus has been broken in Indore as people here are following lockdown guidelines, said Mahendra Sharma Chief Medical and Health Officer.
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Researchers compare social benefits and COVID-19 transmission risk of US l
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], June 11 (ANI): To prevent the spread of COVID-19, policymakers have imposed restrictions on work, activities, and gatherings, which vary across location types. Decisions about the types of locations to restrict reflect trade-offs between infection risk and benefits to th
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BLR Airport all set to welcome passengers to a contactless experience
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], May 24 (ANI): In an effort to protect passengers and staff from the risk of COVID-19 transmission, the Bangalore International Airport Limited (BIAL) has introduced a parking-to-boarding contactless journey at the airport.
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Study reveals simpler methods of saliva test being employed for coronaviru
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 17 (ANI): In a bid to help flatten the COVID-19 transmission curve and in order to prevent a sharp spike in cases - several simpler methods apart from nasopharyngeal swab techniques are being used to conduct coronavirus testing.
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Speech-generated droplets and COVID-19 transmission
Updated : 6 years ago IST
California [USA], May 14 (ANI): Researchers report that airborne droplets produced through speech could be a potentially significant mode of COVID-19 transmission.
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WB Govt identifies 312 containment areas in Kolkata
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], May 5 (ANI): West Bengal Government has identified 312 containment areas in Kolkata to prevent COVID-19 transmission.
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IIT-Delhi's PRACRITI to predict district, statewise COVID-19 transmission
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 25 (ANI): Prof Anoop Krishnan and his team of researchers at IIT-Delhi have developed a web-based dashboard called -- PRACRITI -- which can predict the district and state wise transmission rate of COVID-19.
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COVID-19 not transmitted from mother to newborn according to most medical
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 18 (ANI): A gynaecologist in the national capital has said that most medical literature at present supports the view that COVID-19 does not get transmitted to a newborn child from her mother.
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