Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], May 8 (ANI): Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Friday said that those coming from red zones will have to be in mandatory institutional quarantine for 14 days and would be moved to the quarantine facility from the check-post itself.
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], May 8 (ANI): The Kerala government has issued a clarification to its order on the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to screen and quarantine returnees from other countries in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic.
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], May 8 (ANI): Odisha Government has increased the quarantine period to 28 days from 14 days, said Subrto Bagchi, Odisha Government's Spokesperson on COVID-19.
Kochi (Kerala) [India], May 8 (ANI): Kerala High Court on Friday refused to interfere with a petition seeking directions to the state government to follow the Central government's advisory for 14 days mandatory institutional quarantine for expatriates evacuated back to India.
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 8 (ANI): Around 100,000 Pakistanis, stranded abroad, want to return, but the their country lacks quarantine facilities, Dawn quoted Foreign Office Spokesperson Aisha Farooqui, as saying.
New Delhi [India], May 8 (ANI): Air India's first flight carrying stranded Indian nationals from Singapore landed at Delhi airport on Friday. The evacuation flight was operated under the government's Vande Bharat Mission.
Dantewada (Chhattisgarh) [India], May 8 (ANI): As many as 23 labourers of Nahari village, who had returned from Telangana, ran away on Thursday from a quarantine centre in Aranpur village in Dantewada district of Bastar region in Chhattisgarh.
Washington D.C. [USA], May 8 (ANI): American actor Courteney Cox is missing boyfriend Johnny McDaid as the two are staying apart amid the COVID-19 lockdown.
Washington D.C. [USA], May 8 (ANI): American actor Jennifer Aniston is sick and tired of the novel coronavirus and is asking it to go away in her own unique style. She shared a picture on Instagram where she is seen flipping COVID-19 the bird and asking it to go away.
Ludhiana (Punjab) [India], May 8 (ANI): Students returning from Rajasthan's Kota, kept at an isolation centre here, are utilising their time under quarantine for studying and other constructive activities.
Kochi (Kerala) [India], May 8 (ANI): Five people, who were among 181 individuals evacuated from Abu Dhabi, have been sent to the isolation ward of the district hospital after they displayed symptoms of coronavirus during thermal screening.