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JK cop shifts students from quarantine facility to hotel, other cops move them back

Jammu: A senior police officer on Saturday shifted some students from a quarantine facility to a hotel in Samba district of Jammu and Kashmir after they complained that there were no facilities at the government-run isolation space, officials said. The IGP-level officer visited Radha Swami Ashram and shifted nine students who were undergoing quarantine there […]

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French expert says second study shows malaria drug helps fight coronavirus

Paris: The controversial French professor who believes the anti-malaria drug chloroquine can help beat the coronavirus, has claimed that a new study he has conducted confirms its “efficiency” at combatting the virus. But several other scientists and critics of microbiologist Didier Raoult, who heads the infectious diseases department of La Timone hospital in Marseille, were […]

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Coronavirus global death toll crosses 31,000

Paris: The worldwide number of officially confirmed fatalities from the novel coronavirus rose to 31,412 on Sunday, according to a tally compiled by AFP from official sources. More than two-thirds of the deaths from coronavirus have now been recorded in Europe. Over 667,090 declared cases have been registered in 183 countries and territories since the […]

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Death toll due to COVID-19 climbs to 25 in India; total cases 979

New Delhi: The number of COVID-19 cases climbed to 979 in India on Sunday with the death toll rising to 25, according to the Union Health Ministry. The ministry reported six fresh deaths — one each from Delhi, Gujarat, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra and Telangana. Thus, deaths have so far been reported from Maharashtra (6), Gujarat […]

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China rushes COVID-19 medical supplies to Pakistan through PaK border

Beijing: China has sent a truck-load of medical supplies to Pakistan through the Khunjerab Pass to combat the deadly novel coronavirus, after it asked Islamabad to open the border between the two countries for one day to transport the equipment. China’s Xinjiang province which borders Pakistan- administrated Kashmir dispatched the truck on Friday containing five […]

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Govt launches helpline for mental health issues during lockdown

New Delhi: The government has launched a toll-free helpline number 08046110007 — for people who may face any mental health issue due to the ongoing countrywide lockdown to contain the spread of coronavirus. In its daily briefing on the coronavirus situation in the country, the health ministry said on Sunday the National Institute of Mental […]

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Pak has over 12,000 suspected cases, says top health official as positive infections reach 1,495

Islamabad: Pakistan has over 12,000 suspected COVID-19 cases, a top health official said on Saturday as the confirmed infections reached 1,495 with the Punjab province emerging as the new epicentre of the deadly disease in the country. Advisor on health to the government Zafar Mirza was addressing a daily briefing to inform the magnitude of […]

Added on March 29, 2020 Press Trust of India

Five villages declared red zones in Rajouri

Jammu: Five villages in Manjakote tehsil of Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district were on Saturday declared as red zones and their surrounding villages as buffer zones to prevent the spread of coronavirus, officials said. The villages include Sarola, Dehridhara, Mangal Nar, Gambir Muglan and Kotli, the officials said quoting an order issued by Rajouri District […]

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Multiple landslides blocks Jammu-Srinagar NH

Hundreds of trucks stranded

Banihal/Jammu: The Jammu-Srinagar National Highway was blocked at over a dozen places by landslides triggered by heavy rains in Ramban district, leaving hundreds of trucks carrying essential commodities to Kashmir stranded, officials said on Saturday. The men and machinery are on the job and efforts are on to make the 270-km-long highway, the only all […]

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China to share coronavirus data with US: Trump

Washington: China will share its data related to the novel coronavirus pandemic with the US and the country will learn from Beijing’s experience, President Donald Trump has said, a day after he held an hour-long conversation with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping. Trump spoke to Xi over telephone, days after the US president angered Beijing […]

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