Shenzhen has become the first Chinese city to ban the sale and consumption of dog and cat meat. It comes after the coronavirus outbreak was linked to wildlife meat, prompting Chinese authorities to ban the trade and consumption of wild animals. Shenzhen went a step further, extending the ban to dogs and cats. The new […]
New Delhi: The Union Ministry of Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy (AYUSH) has sought proposals from alternative medicine practitioners for possible coronavirus treatment but all claims will be vetted by a team of scientists, AYUSH Minister Shripad Yesso Naik said. Speaking to ThePrint, he mentioned how some doctors told him Prince Charles who […]
FAIZABAD police on Wednesday lodged an FIR against an unknown editor of The Wire for allegedly making derogatory remarks against Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath in his blog, at the City Kotwali police station. In another FIR lodged at Ayodhya police station in Faizabad, a local resident named Harvajan Goud lodged an FIR against […]
Srinagar: A woman from Khanyar area of Srinagar, who became the first case of Covid-19 in Kashmir, has recovered with doctors saying that the lady has been tested negative in multiple tests. She has also been discharged from SKIMS on Wednesday. “The Srinagar woman, who became the first coronavirus case in Kashmir on March 18 […]
The government is mulling a change in policy on care of patients of novel coronavirus, limiting hospitalisation to only those who really need it. So far, all positive patients have been kept in hospital, but as numbers rise, discussions are being held about sending the milder cases to home quarantine and monitoring them over phone. Highly […]
America continues to wage an all-out war to defeat the “horrible” coronavirus, President Donald Trump has said, as the US reported over 5,000 deaths and more than 200,000 infections, the highest in the world, due to the fast-spreading COVID-19 pandemic. According to Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center, the number of Americans to have been infected […]
The lockdown of the first Covid-19 pandemic epicentre Wuhan city and the highest emergency response put in place in the rest of China delayed the spread of the outbreak and reduced case numbers by hundreds of thousands by February 19, a new study published this week said. Drawing inferences from statistical and mathematical analyses of […]
The coronavirus pandemic may have emerged in China, but the country now has fewer cases than the US, Italy and Spain. The Chinese government has used tools such as phone tracking to control the outbreak. Other countries are starting to look at similar technological solutions. But how does China’s controversial surveillance system work and can […]
It has been a week since India began the world’s biggest lockdown to stop the spread of coronavirus. The country has around 1,600 infections so far, but scientists fear the number could be much higher because of low testing rates. Health workers in New Delhi are trying to track down at least 2,000 people who stayed at the […]
SRINAGAR: The floor beneath the feet of one of the Kashmiri quarantined at Jaisalmer slipped away when the health authorities at the facility declared nine people positive for Coronavirus including three Kashmiris. The facility, officially called wellness facility created under Operation Namaste, is an armed forces infrastructure where most of the people flown from Iran stand […]