Ministry of Health and Family Welfare today ruled out achieving herd immunity — developed as a result of a large portion of the population getting infected — as a workable strategy for India in its fight against COVID-19. Rajesh Bhushan, officer on special duty at the ministry, said the government cannot have a strategy based […]
Kerala has published new rules under lockdown 4.0, bringing the overall regulations more in line with the new regulations published by the central government. However, the state continues to prohibit certain activities that are allowed by the center in its guidelines yesterday. Most notably, these include restrictions on travel. While the center had allowed by-road […]
Sunday saw a record addition in the number of new COVID-19 patients in India, with the ‘hot four’ states contributing nearly 80% of the total cases during the day. A total of 4,296 new cases were reported in India by various states on Sunday. With this the total number of cases has risen to 67,161. […]
Kerala, which seemed to be on track to more or less eliminate Coronavirus 2019 by mid-May, could be seeing the beginnings of a ‘third wave’ of COVID-19 infections, starting with districts that share a border with other states. The worst affected in the new wave seem to be Palakkad and Idukki districts, both of which […]
India is now making a substantial number of essential medical supplies such as personal protection equipment (PPE), N95 masks and ventilators, the central government said today. Medical professionals in India were hit by a dangerous shortage of PPE kits and N95 masks till about two weeks ago, leading to at least some nurses taking to […]
With an addition of 127 cases so far today, the western Indian state of Gujarat has dislodged the national capital Delhi as the state with the second highest number of Coronavirus 2019 cases in India. The state, which also crossed the 2,000 patient milestone today, also has the highest death rate — along with Madhya […]
Health authorities in Kerala are in a state of surprise, if not shock, due to a new trend showing NRIs who have been in quarantine for 25 days or more starting to show COVID-19 symptoms. The new findings fly in the face of the widespread assumption that Coronavirus infected persons will show symptoms within 14 […]
Union health ministry today said that the country is ready to face any “exponential rise” in the number of Coronavirus cases and has, as of now, nearly 63 times the number of hospital beds at its disposal as is required to treat present COVID-19 cases. Luv Agarwal, spokesperson for the ministry of health and family […]
Even as other states continued to report high levels of new COVID-19 cases, Kerala reported a net decline of 20 in its tally of Coronavirus patients. While 7 new cases were reported, 27 existing patients tested negative and were discharged from the hospital. The number of new cases reported today is the lowest in nearly […]
Even as discussions about the continuation of the national lockdown continues, India has seen a record number of new COVID-19 patients in the last 24 hours. According to various crowd-sourced data sources, a total of 809 new cases of Coronavirus infections were reported in the last 24 hours (official confirmation expected today afternoon). This is […]
The first case of COVID-19 in India was reported 67 days ago on January 30 in Kerala. It was only after 55 days that India imposed a countrywide lockdown to prevent the virus from spreading. In those 55 days, the Coronavirus infected around 500 people — at an average rate of 9 new infections per […]
Maharashtra has emerged as the lead state in India as far as Coronavirus infections are concerned, going by an analysis of the details of state-wise COVID-19 cases in India (see table). While the numbers are changing every hour, as of April 3 Friday, Maharashtra continued to remain on the top with 423 cases and 21 […]
Kerala reported the highest number of Coronavirus COVID-19 cases in a single day today. A total of 39 new cases were confirmed today, out of which 34 were reported from the Kasargode district adjoining Karnataka. Within this 34, 21 people came from Dubai, while the remaining caught the infection from these people. The number of […]
Several video-on-demand services in India, including Youtube, Hotstar, Tiktok, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Zee5, have decided to suspend the streaming of high-definition content as long as the Coronavirus lockdown is in place. They will continue to offer HD content on wired broadband, such as fiber and copper networks. The move is to prevent the […]
India is going into a country-wide lockdown from today midnight for 21 days. While this may be a new experience for people in many parts of the country, for those in places like Mumbai, Bangalore, Kerala and Delhi, lockdowns are already in place to prevent the spread of Coronavirus. Based on the rules implemented in […]
A large number of manufacturing companies in India have informed that they are shutting down their plants in accordance to the government’s action plan to combat Coronavirus COVID 19, with some warning that this will impact earnings. “The domestic industry is being impacted in unprecedented ways with increasing levels of uncertainty,” said Polycab Industries, one […]
Malayalam Superstar Mohanlal expressed frustration at the high number of people who are refusing to heed government’s instructions on combating Coronavirus, and compared community clapping to magic that can destroy bacteria and viruses. “It won’t do to just say that we are not used to [such restrictions],” Mohanlal said in an interview with Malayalam channel […]
The latest COVID 19 numbers coming Italy and France — the two western countries that have put the strongest ‘social isolation’ measures in place — provide hope and a way out for countries such as the US, UK and Germany, as well as for the global financial markets. According to the latest data on the […]
Stock markets extended their losses on today, with the Nifty 50 falling by around 2.5% to 8,967. Among the biggest drags were ICICI Bank, which fell nearly 9%, indicating that large, foreign portfolio investors are exiting their long positions in the market. With this, the Nifty 50 index is now down 27.5% from its all-time […]
Several cases of foreign tourists starving and sleeping rough have come up in the last two days in Kerala as hotels and restaurants turn away anyone with white skin over fears of Coronavirus. The most striking is the case of Selena, from France, and Mauro, from Italy. The couple, who had been roaming around in […]
