- Saturday, May 18, 2024
DELHI chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday (24) said that plasma therapy provides a ray of hope to seriously-ill COVID-19 patients. The Indian capital has conducted plasma therapy trial on four COVID-19 patients. Kejriwal said that the test has yielded ‘very encouraging’ initial results. In the plasma therapy, antibodies from…
The UK government on Thursday (24) laid out a series of measures to be put in place to ramp up testing for the novel coronavirus as the daily COVID-19 hospital death toll spiked by 616 to hit a total of 18,738. Health secretary Matt Hancock said that though the daily…
The UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) on Friday (24) announced 14 new charter flights from India — eight from Amritsar, five from Ahmedabad and one from Delhi — to repatriate British residents stranded in the COVID-19 lockdown back to the UK. The FCO said 3,600 more stranded travellers will…
INDIA’s death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 718 and the number of cases to 23,077 on Friday (24), said the health ministry. A total of 32 deaths were reported since Thursday evening, of which 14 fatalities were from Maharashtra, nine from Gujarat, three from Uttar Pradesh and two each from Delhi, Madhya Pradesh…
Health secretary Matt Hancock has thanked British Muslims for staying at home over Ramadan. All mosques in the UK will be closed for the month of Ramadan, which begins today, to ensure there is no congregational prayers and social distancing guidelines are maintained. Furthermore, key Muslim figures such as Mayor…
INDIA’s health ministry on Thursday (23) said that the country has succeeded in minimising coronavirus transmission in 30 days of the lockdown. Health ministry Joint Secretary Lav Aggarwal said hat no new case of Covid-19 has been reported from 78 districts in 23 states and union territories in the country…
TWO people were arrested on Thursday (23) for allegedly attacking Republic TV editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami and wife Samyabrata Ray in Mumbai. Officials said the incident happened on their way back home from the studios on Thursday morning. “‘Two people have been arrested for attacking Arnab Goswami and his wife. The…
The UK’s Covid-19 death toll in hospitals rose by 616 to 18,738 by 1600 GMT on April 22, the health department said on Thursday (23). It added that 138,078 people had tested positive for coronovirus so far. England’s Covid-19 death toll in hospitals, meanwhile, rose by 514 to 16,786. NHS…
Joan Pons Laplana is a senior digital charge nurse working on the frontline in an intensive care unit treating coronavirus patients at Sheffield Teaching Hospital in the north of England. Like many of his colleagues in the NHS, the 45-year-old medic is not British. The Spanish national works alongside people…
BIRTHDAY SPECIAL REFLECTING THE LIFE AND CAREER OF SOUTH INDIAN CINEMA’S SUPERSTAR by ASJAD NAZIR THIS month South Indian superstar Samantha Akkineni turns a year older and will be celebrating her 33rd birthday on April 28. The multi-award-winning actress has risen through the ranks in the past decade to become…
