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Bihar CM Nitish Kumar asks people to stay away from COVID-19 related rumou
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Patna (Bihar) [India], April 10 (ANI): Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday asked people not to pay heed to rumours linked to COVID-19 and instructed Chief Secretary Deepak Kumar and Director General of Police (DGP) Gupteshwar Pandey to involve all the District Magistrates and Superin
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COVID -19: Delhi Airport becomes hub for movement of healthcare and medica
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 10 (ANI): Amid the lockdown imposed to help contain the spread of coronavirus, the Delhi Airport has set up additional warehouse space for handling the international and domestic cargo movements for essential commodities including healthcare and medical supplies, sai
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Combating COVID-19: Thermal screening by drone in Delhi begins
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 10 (ANI): In an attempt to contain the spread of the coronavirus, North Delhi MCD is using multipurpose 'thermal imaging covid combat drone' equipped with thermal scanning to identify people standing in their balconies having less or more temperature than the
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India's coronavirus cases rise to 6761, government takes steps to scale u
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 10 (ANI): The COVID-19 cases in the country saw another single-day high of 896 taking the total number to 6761 as the government continued to take steps to contain its spread through a series of measures including scaling up testing capacity.
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Poor suffering due to lockdown, hope govt comes out with plan to deal with
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 10 (ANI): Congress interim chief Sonia Gandhi on Friday expressed hope that the government will formulate a strategy to address the problems being faced by the poor labourers due to the nationwide lockdown in order to prevent the spread of coronavirus.
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Combating Corona: Rajasthan bans spitting pan, tobacco in public places
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Jaipur (Rajasthan) [India], April 10 (ANI): Spitting pan and chewed tobacco was banned in Rajasthan on Friday, in an attempt to contain the spread of coronavirus.
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COVID-19: Wearing masks now mandatory in Gurugram, legal action against vi
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Gurugram (Haryana) [India], April 10 (ANI): Wearing of face masks was made compulsory in Gurugram on Friday in the wake of coronavirus spread with authorities mandating legal action against violators.
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COVID-19 lockdown: State govt to provide financial aid to cancer, kidney a
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Guwahati (Assam) [India], April 10 (ANI): Assam government will provide financial assistance to patients suffering from cancer, kidney and heart ailments who are stranded outside the state due to nationwide lockdown to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
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PMO directs Empowered Groups to ensure last-mile outreach through regional
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NewDelhi [India], April 10 (ANI): The Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister on Friday reviewed the efforts undertaken by the Empowered Groups to tackle the challenges emerging as a result of the spread of COVID-19 and directed them to ensure last-mile outreach through communication in re
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BBMP to seal two areas in Bengaluru to prevent spread of COVID-19
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], April 10 (ANI): After five new cases of the coronavirus were reported in Bengaluru, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagar Palike (BBMP) on Friday decided to completely seal Bapuji Nagar ward-134 and Padarayanapura ward-135.
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Nationwide lockdown should be extended, says Uttarakhand CM
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], April 10 (ANI): Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat on Friday said the nationwide lockdown should be extended to end the spread of coronavirus.
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COVID-19 not transmitted from animals to humans, misinformation being spre
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 10 (ANI): Calling the circulation of rumours about animals spreading COVID-19 a "classic example of spreading misinformation, disinformation, distorted information," Dr Chandrakant Pandav, Head, Centre for Community Medicine, AIIMS Delhi said that this totally wrong
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