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Hope for Chinese medicos: Will be injected with newly developed COVID19 vaccine

Govt says vaccine to be made available by year end

Beijing: China plans to inject Chinese medics with coronavirus vaccines by year-end to protect them to deal with any emergency situation, while 11 new confirmed COVID-19 cases were reported in the country with no deaths due to the virus, health officials said. China’s National Health Commission (NHC) on Tuesday said that 11 new confirmed COVID-19 […]

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US to suspend immigration temporarily, as death toll surges past 42 thousand

Washington: President Donald Trump has said that he will sign an executive order to temporarily suspend immigration into America, amid the coronavirus outbreak that has killed more than 40,000 people in the US, the country with the most fatalities in the pandemic. The number of people killed in the US due to COVID-19 has reached […]

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Death toll rises to 559 in India, number of positive cases at 17,656

New Delhi: The death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 559 and the number of cases climbed to 17,656 in the country on Monday, registering an increase of 40 deaths and 1,540 cases since Sunday evening, according to the Union health ministry. The number of active COVID-19 cases stood at 14,255 while 2,841 people have […]

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Centre shoots fresh directions to states, UTs on lockdown

Asks them to strictly comply with COVID-19 guidelines

New Delhi: The Centre has asked states and union territories to strictly comply with the lockdown measures announced to combat the novel coronavirus pandemic and not to dilute them at any level. In a communication to chief secretaries of state governments and Union Territory administrations, Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla said some states and UTs […]

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Multiplication of cases has extended due to lockdown: Health Ministry

New Delhi: The Union Health Ministry said on Monday the rate at which the number of coronavirus cases in the country was becoming double in the last one week has improved to 7.5 days, as against 3.4 days before the nationwide lockdown was imposed. As per data on April 19, 18 states and UTs have […]

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Photojournalist, Sr Reporter booked by police

Srinagar: A woman photojournalist working in Kashmir was on Monday booked for allegedly posting anti-national content on social media with the intention to incite the youth and promote offences against tranquillity , police said. The development comes close on the heels of police summoning senior journalist Peerzada Ashiq, working for a national daily, over a […]

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Army man dies due to cardiac arrest

Srinagar: An Army jawan died due to cardiac arrest inside an Army installation in Uri area of Baramulla district in north Kashmir, officials said on Monday. Kapil Dev of 6 PARA died due to cardiac arrest on Sunday, the officials said. They said the deceased hailed from Haryana. (PTI)

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Two JeM over ground workers arrested

Srinagar: Security forces apprehended two overground workers of Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) militant outfit from Shopian district of south Kashmir on Monday, officials said. A joint team of security forces led by police arrested the two overground workers of Jaish during vehicle checking at Wachi in Shopian, a police official said. The arrested duo have been identified […]

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Global coronavirus toll tops 165,000

Paris: The worldwide death toll from the novel coronavirus pandemic rose to 165,216 on Monday, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP. More than 2,403,410 declared cases have been registered in 193 countries and territories since the epidemic first emerged in China in December. Of these cases, at least 537,700 are now […]

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US deaths top 40,000: Johns Hopkins

Washington: The number of deaths from the new coronavirus in the United States topped 40,000 on Sunday, according to a running tally by Johns Hopkins University. It showed the number of fatalities countrywide at 40,585, with almost half of them in New York. (AFP)