Considerable lockdown relaxations in many districts from May 4, says home ministryAccording to home ministry's statement, relaxations will be extended to districts that have done well so far.
01 May, 2020, 04.22 PM IST
Government identifies 170 Covid-19 hotspots: Here's the full listA buffer zone of an additional 5-kilometre radius (7 Kms in rural areas)/administrative boundary of including neighbouring districts/per-ur...
01 May, 2020, 01.35 PM IST
In a fortnight, number of COVID-19 hotspot districts decreases to 129 from 170Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Tuesday said that 80 districts in the country have not reported any new case of COVID-19 in last sev...
01 May, 2020, 01.33 PM IST
In a fortnight, number of COVID-19 hotspot districts decreases to 129 from 170The number of COVID-19 hotspot districts in India as on Wednesday morning has come down to 129 from 170 a fortnight ago, but in the same pe...
30 Apr, 2020, 09.11 AM IST
Situation in India improving, hotspot districts moving towards being non-hotspot districts: Harsh VardhanHotspots are those districts which are reporting more number of cases or where the rate of growth of COVID-19 cases is high, the ministry s...
26 Apr, 2020, 08.28 PM IST
Lockdown, Day 32: Some good newsThe plasma therapy has shown hope in treating Covid-19 patients. The plasma therapy trials in Delhi have been encouraging, said the Delhi h...
25 Apr, 2020, 08.17 PM IST
Entire Delhi not a hotspot: Delhi health minister on lockdown relaxationsJain was replying to a query on whether the Delhi government was considering easing the curbs enforced to contain the spread of novel coron...
25 Apr, 2020, 03.32 PM IST
Selective relaxation in non-containment areas from April 20: Health ministryAddressing a daily media briefing to give updates on the novel coronavirus situation in the country, Joint Secretary in the Health Ministry...
19 Apr, 2020, 06.00 PM IST
Health Ministry identifies 170 districts in India as hotspots, 207 as potential hostspots"Hotspots are those districts which are reporting more number of cases or where the rate of growth of COVID-19 cases is high," Agarwal said...
16 Apr, 2020, 06.59 PM IST
Relief to under-construction projects: Mumbai, Pune not likely to benefit as both designated Covid-19 hotspotsMumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) and Pune have both been declared as coronavirus hotspots. The maximum construction projects are also in th...
16 Apr, 2020, 04.56 PM IST
Maharashtra becomes first state to cross 3,000 Covid-19 casesThe state reported 165 more COVID-19 cases with 107 cases being reported only from Mumbai taking the total number of coronavirus cases in t...
16 Apr, 2020, 12.53 PM IST
Noida: Residential society, housing sector removed from COVID-19 hotspot list, 7 addedSo far, 80 positive cases of coronavirus have been detected across Noida and Greater Noida in Gautam Buddh Nagar district and 25 of these p...
15 Apr, 2020, 06.56 PM IST
Bengal to impose total lockdown in 10 COVID-19 hotspots: State chief secretary Rajiva SinhaThough the chief secretary did not name the areas, he said local markets and all roads in those localities will be shut down, and nobody wi...
12 Apr, 2020, 10.35 AM IST
A day after sealing orders, UP authorities step up vigil in coronavirus hotspotsLater in the day, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath asked officials to further divide the hotspots into sectors and appoint a magistrate for e...
09 Apr, 2020, 09.19 PM IST
Delhi seals 20 coronavirus hotspots with immediate effectThe decision was taken at an emergency meeting held at the CM Arvind Kejriwal's residence, which was attended by health minister Satyendra ...
09 Apr, 2020, 04.22 PM IST
Police tighten vigil in COVID-19 hotspots in LucknowPolice have stepped up vigil and barricades were erected in eight major and four minor COVID-19 hotspots in the Uttar Pradesh capital that ...
09 Apr, 2020, 12.07 PM IST
Coronavirus hotspots emerge in Chinese prisonsHubei, the hard-hit central province where the virus emerged late last year, said Friday that 271 cases were reported by its prisons on Thu...
21 Feb, 2020, 01.13 PM IST