News Topic:COVID-19

When the lockdown norms came into effect last month, the Thazhekkode Grama Panchayat in Malappuram district of Kerala decided to hold a contest to keep people indoors.

The entrance exams to different technical education courses will be held only when the lockdown ends, the Human Resource Development Ministry said on Monday.

Brazil is emerging as potentially the next big hot spot for the coronavirus amid President Jair Bolsonaro's insistence that it is just a "little flu” and that there is no need for the sharp restrictions that have slowed the infection's spread in Europe and the US.

On completion of successful treatment, eighteen (18) more COVID-19 patients admitted after testing positive more than two weeks back at various referral centres were discharged from SKIMS MC Bemina here today.

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression has said that limitations imposed by the government on internet in Jammu & Kashmir have made access to basic information difficult for healthcare professionals.

A couple of corporators on Monday demanded thorough probe into the allegations leveled by a journalist about the fraud committed while purchasing the disinfectants by Srinagar Municipal Corporation.

Twenty four persons on Monday tested positive for the novel coronavirus in Jammu and Kashmir, taking the overall tally of the COVID-19 patients in J&K near 550-mark.

All educational institutions in Bangladesh will remain closed till September in view of the COVID-19 outbreak across the country, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said on Monday.