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Universities will be asked to take a call and frame their own examination timetables, keeping the safety of students in mind given the rise in the number of COVID-19 cases. This was one of the decisions taken at a meeting convened by Karnataka State Higher Education Council last week. Vice-Chancellors of universities and Higher Education […]
President Donald Trump is going to wear a mask, which has been declared the most effective tool in the battle against Covid-19 by experts around the world, when he visits a military hospital on Saturday. He has been pointedly averse to it for himself while allowing experts the last word for others. Trump reportedly dropped […]
In confined spaces, you can actually breathe in the Covid virus. While that is still only a possibility — and transmission by droplets remains the primary way in which the disease spreads — it makes it more important than ever before to wear masks The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Thursday (July 9) published an […]
Officials stress on contact tracing Municipal Corporation of Tirupati (MCT) officials at a meeting conducted to find out the reasons for rampant spread of COVID-19 infection in Tirupati on Thursday squarely blamed the influx of visitors into the temple city after the relaxation of the lockdown norms. Municipal Commissioner P.S. Gireesha, Deputy Inspector-General of Police […]
The Puducherry Lt Governor had been tested after a staff member working at Raj Nivas tested positive The Puducherry Lieutenant Governor, Kiran Bedi, tested negative for COVID-19 on Thursday. The Health Department conducted RT-PCR tests on Wednesday, after a staff member working at Raj Nivas tested positive for the virus. “The Health Department has informed […]
Moments before the body of 35-year-old Anjum was to be buried, Sharif Khan decided to have one last look at his sister who succumbed to the novel coronavirus. However, he received a rude shock when the corpse lying in a body bag beside the freshly dug grave turned out to be someone else’s. Khan later […]
Two people have died of COVID-19 infection in Hassan, increasing the total number of deaths to 13 in the district. A 48-year-old woman from Hassan taluk was admitted to the hospital in Hassan on Tuesday. She had hypertension, diabetes and was suffering from severe acute respiratory infections (SARI). According to the doctors, she breathed her […]
The lockdown necessitated by the Covid-19 pandemic has caused misery to all those workers whose daily incomes disappeared. This was revealed in the painful images of families of migrant labourers struggling to get back to their villages. This tragedy has driven home the imperative of providing universal social security. The founders of the Republic wanted […]
Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro, who has consistently belittled the threat posed by the coronavirus pandemic while his country has soared to the world’s second-most cases and deaths, tested positive for Covid-19. “I’m perfectly well,” Bolsonaro told journalists in a live interview on Tuesday, after announcing the result of his test. He’s taking hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malaria […]
Three hundred unmanned drones were programmed to form images above the Han river in Seoul for a show held on Saturday, July 4. The spectacular showcase of motivational and awareness messages comes at the time when the world is still battling the coronavirus pandemic even though lockdown is beginning to ease in phases globally. The […]