- Saturday, May 18, 2024
THE US has provided nearly $5.9 million in health assistance to India to slow the spread of COVID-19, the state department has said Thursday. The funding is to help India hinder the spread of the disease by providing care for the affected, disseminating essential public health messages to communities and…
The UK’s hospital death toll from Covid-19 rose by 847 to 14,576, as of 1600 GMT on April 16. The health department said at least “341,551 people have been tested of which 108,692 tested positive”. The figures were announced as a leading public health professor told lawmakers that the British…
The UK government has announced 17 more charter flights to bring back British citizens stranded in India. The flights, with a total capacity of about 4,000 passengers, will operate from key cities across India. The Foreign Office said the "most vulnerable" and those "already on waitlists" will be given priority…
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday (17) unexpectedly cut its key deposit rate, for the second time in three weeks, to discourage banks from parking idle funds with it and spur lending instead, to revive a flagging economy amid the COVID-19 lockdown. This week, prime minister Narendra Modi…
THE Indian Council of Medical Research(ICMR) has clarified that the testing ratio in India is not low. It added that there has been no COVID-19 infections in 325 of the 736 districts. India has 13,387 coronavirus positive cases in the country with 437 deaths. Recently, congress leader Rahul Gandhi said…
THE death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 437 and the number of cases to 13,387 in India on Friday (17), according to the health ministry. While the number of active COVID-19 cases stood at 11,201, as many as 1,748 people have been cured and discharged, and one had migrated,…
Millions of people in rural India will be allowed back to work next week despite a nationwide coronavirus lockdown, the government said Wednesday, as it conceded the hardships of shutting its vital farming economy were too great. Restrictions on movement in the world’s second-most populous nation of 1.3 billion people…
THE UK extended its nationwide lockdown on Thursday (16) as stand-in leader Dominic Raab ordered Britons to stay at home for at least another three weeks to prevent the spread of a coronavirus outbreak which has already claimed over 138,000 lives globally. “We have just come too far, we’ve lost too many…
India said on Thursday (16) videoconferencing software Zoom is “not a safe platform”, joining other countries that have expressed concern about the security of an application that has become hugely popular worldwide during the coronavirus lockdown. US-based Zoom Video Communications Inc has apologised for security flaws and says it is…
THE death toll due to Covid-19 rose to 414 in India on Thursday (16) and the number of cases stands at 12,380 , said health ministry. While the number of active Covid-19 cases is 10,477, as many as 1,488 people have been cured and discharged and one had migrated, it said. The…
