Aarogya Setu is India’s curing machine, says NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh KantAmitabh Kant, CEO, of government think-tank NITI Aayog, said the app which was developed in 15 days was the fastest to reach both 50 millio...
14 May, 2020, 10.26 PM IST
Mumbai’s luxury realty market sees demand pull-backWhile Covid-19 hotspots and containment zones pretty much criss cross the city, these homebuyers are expected to avoid properties adjoining...
13 May, 2020, 08.30 AM IST
Aarogya Setu app alerted Govt to 300 'emerging hotspots' which could have been missed out: Niti Aayog CEOSince its launch on April 2 this year, over 96 million people have registered with the Aarogya Setu health care application, which has beco...
09 May, 2020, 08.47 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
A herd immunity strategy could actually work in youthful IndiaThe herd strategy would allow a majority of the population to gain resistance to coronavirus.
23 Apr, 2020, 09.37 AM IST
Containment ops to be scaled down if no secondary COVID-19 case for 4 weeks: GovernmentThe closing of the surveillance for the clusters could be independent of one another provided there is no geographic continuity between clu...
17 Apr, 2020, 04.26 PM IST
India gets 1 Covid-positive case in 24 testsICMR said population-based testing was not the right approach and that the absolute number of tests done are not the way to go when it come...
17 Apr, 2020, 08.03 AM 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
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
Committees to look into implementation of exits from lockdownTwo empowered committees will look into the implementation of exits from lockdown by states to ensure that only areas designated as hotspot...
16 Apr, 2020, 09.49 AM IST
Convert Covid-19 hotspots to non-hotspots: Centre to StatesA red ‘hotspot’ district will be designated as orange zone if no fresh case of Covid-19 is reported there for 14 straight days and will bec...
16 Apr, 2020, 12.07 AM IST
Telcos warn of full service breakdown in virus hotspotsThe situation, industry sources said, is particularly challenging in Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra where numerous locations have bee...
13 Apr, 2020, 07.58 AM IST
Government working on staggered easing of lockdownAll the empowered groups constituted by the government are frantically attempting to build post-lockdown strategies and ‘unlockdown’ measur...
09 Apr, 2020, 07.32 AM IST
ICMR approves antibody tests in hotspotsICMR said in an interim advisory that antibody tests can be carried out in hotspots – zones suspected to have widespread prevalence of the ...
03 Apr, 2020, 08.51 AM IST
India's 10 COVID-19 hotspots: An overviewThere are two hotspots each in Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Kerala and Maharashtra and one each in Gujarat and Rajasthan.
01 Apr, 2020, 02.25 PM IST