Govt estimates: In next 2 months, need 27 million N95 masks, 50000 ventilators

Govt estimates: In next 2 months, need 27 million N95 masks, 50000 ventilators

Estimating a spike in demand for personal protective equipment and diagnostic kits in the fight against COVID-19, the central government has calculated that the country will require about 27 million N95 masks, 15 million PPEs, 1.6 million diagnostic kits, and 50,000 ventilators in next two months, The Indian Express has learnt. According to sources, this was conveyed to industry representatives during a […]

A JNU lab is working on a revamped BCG vaccine with Covid-19 protein to fight pandemic

A JNU lab is working on a revamped BCG vaccine with Covid-19 protein to fight pandemic

New Delhi: A group of scientists at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU)’s Centre for Molecular Medicine are researching the efficacy of a revamped tuberculosis vaccine, the BCG, which has been infiltrated with the Covid-19 protein to potentially protect people from the novel coronavirus that has wreaked havoc across the world. Led by well-known immunologist Dr Gobardhan Das, […]

Let’s make India Covid-19-free: PM Modi on BJP’s 40th foundation day

Let’s make India Covid-19-free: PM Modi on BJP’s 40th foundation day

thank health care workers, policemen, sanitation workers, who are on the frontline of the battle against the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), as well as those who have been providing essential services during the ongoing 21-day nationwide lockdown to check the spread of the pandemic. Prime Minister Narendra Modi greeted his party colleagues and asked them to help […]

Millions join PM Modi’s ‘9pm-9min’ call, light lamps to show solidarity in fight against Covid-19

Millions join PM Modi’s ‘9pm-9min’ call, light lamps to show solidarity in fight against Covid-19

Millions of people across the country switched off the lights of their houses in a show of solidarity in fight against the coronavirus pandemic. Lamps were lit, torches were switched on and mobile lights were flashed from the balconies by countrymen who answered the call given by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Prime Minister, in […]

Modi’s appeal to light lamps turns into school-monitored activity, parents to fill ‘forms’

Modi’s appeal to light lamps turns into school-monitored activity, parents to fill ‘forms’

New Delhi: Private schools are looking to ensure that their students participate in Sunday night’s lamp-lighting activity set out by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and have issued forms to parents, ThePrint has learnt. The Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) had on 3 April asked students across the country to follow the Prime Minister’s appeal to light a lamp […]

Confirmed cases in India climb to 3,577, death toll at 83

Confirmed cases in India climb to 3,577, death toll at 83

The total number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the country climbed to 3,577 and the death toll rose to 83 on Sunday after 505 new infections were reported in the past 24 hours, according to the Union Health Ministry. The active COVID-19 cases stand at 3,219, while 274 people were either cured or discharged and one had […]

UP police books 10 Indonesians who attended Tablighi Jamaat event in Delhi

UP police books 10 Indonesians who attended Tablighi Jamaat event in Delhi

New Delhi: Ten Indonesian nationals, including 5 women, who attended Tablighi Jamaat event in Nizamuddin Delhi, have been booked under various section of the Indian Penal Code, sections of Epidemic Diseases Act and Foreigners Act, 1897, informed Ghaziabad Police on Sunday. All of them have been placed under quarantine. The Tablighi Jamaat event in Delhi has […]

‘We’re proud of you’: Pakistan ATC praises Air India for COVID-19 relief work

‘We’re proud of you’: Pakistan ATC praises Air India for COVID-19 relief work

Air India recently received praise from the Air Traffic Controller (ATC) of Pakistan for the global relief work that the national carrier has been undertaking during the coronavirus pandemic. Air India has been operating special flights from India to Frankfurt with relief materials and had also evacuated European nationals who were stranded in India due to the […]

Close to 22,000 Tablighi Jamaat members, their contacts quarantined in India: MHA

Close to 22,000 Tablighi Jamaat members, their contacts quarantined in India: MHA

Following a spike in the number of COVID-19 cases in India after members who attended the Tablighi Jamaat congregation in Nizamuddin tested positive, an official from the Ministry of Home Affairs Saturday said that close to 22,000 Tablighi Jamaat members and their contacts have been quarantined across India. Punya Salila Srivastava, Joint Secretary in the Union Home Ministry, said […]