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A biologist prepares a sample collected for COVID-19

Infant contracts coronavirus from nurse in Hyderabad

The nurse, who did not show Covid-19 symptoms, interacted with her neighbours as she was asymptomatic

25 April 2020 9:08 AM IST

All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) President and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi along with Police Commissioner Anjani Kumar distributes Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) kits to police personnel at Police Commissionerate office, Basheerbagh in Hyderabad yesterday. (PTI)

Migrant labourers fighting for dignity in the country: Owaisi

The AIMIM president also requested people to pray at homes this Ramzan

25 April 2020 8:48 AM IST

Two men pray with Hyderabads iconic monument Charminar in the background on Friday night, April 24, 2020 even as the Union Home Minister sounded an alarm on the coronavirus situation in the city. (PTI)

COVID-19 situation 'especially serious' in Hyderabad, Chennai,...

Union Home Ministry sends expert teams to several hotspot cities

24 April 2020 11:54 PM IST

For nearly a week, states other than Bihar have been arranging buses, such as this one by Uttar Pradesh, to take students from tutorial town Kota in Rajasthan to their home towns. (PTI)

In Kota, Bihari students watch everyone else go home

And in Patna, Nitish Kumar's government tells High Court it can't discriminate between Kota students and migrant workers

24 April 2020 7:21 PM IST

A man bathes on a deserted road after procuring water from a leaky pipeline in Chennai on April 23, 2020. With the coronavirus nCoV19 continuing to spread in Tamil Nadus urban clusters, the state goverment decided to impose a four-day total curfew on three major cities beginning Sunday, April 26, 2020. (PTI)

Corona surge anticipated: Tamil Nadu's big cities to have total curfew...

Government opts for tougher measures because spread of epidemic in red zones not yet contained

24 April 2020 6:13 PM IST

Telanganas Karimnagar district on the road to recovery as covid cases drop

Telangana's Karimnagar district on the road to recovery as covid cases...

The district, which had as many as 19 cases at its peak,has only two active cases now

24 April 2020 5:15 PM IST

Border Security Force (BSF) personnel escort a central representative team to MR Bangur Hospital, where COVID-19 patients are treated, during the nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus, in Kolkata. PTI photo

Interministerial teams to monitor covid situation in Gujarat,...

These teams will be in addition to six interministerial central teams constituted earlier

24 April 2020 4:59 PM IST

Seven cops test positive for Covid19 in Coimbatore

Seven cops test positive for Covid19 in Coimbatore

They were part of a group of 75 personnel manning 10 containment zones in the city

24 April 2020 4:42 PM IST

Police March in Bengaluru. (Photo: B Satish)

Karnataka politicians play blame game over Padarayanapura riots

Ramanagar which was a green zone, is on high alert after five prisoners from Padarayanapura tested positive

24 April 2020 4:20 PM IST

A policeman guards as vegetable vendors wait near barricades outside the sealed area of Bhawanipore, during ongoing COVID-19 lockdown in Kolkata. PTI photo

Early lockdown helped prevent US or Europe-like situation in India:...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi extended the countrywide lockdown for 19 additional days till May 3 to contain the spread...

24 April 2020 4:00 PM IST

ASHA workers during a door-to-door survey, to screen people for COVID-19 symptoms, during a nationwide lockdown imposed in wake of the coronavirus outbreak, in Bengaluru. (PTI)

ASHA worker attempts suicide after being abused

Both central government and Karnataka had passed an ordinance to punish those who attack health care workers

24 April 2020 3:15 PM IST

Workers wearing protective suits sit outside an isolation ward at Government General Hospital in Vijayawada. (PTI)

Andhra Pradesh maintains a steep ascent in coronavirus cases

The state reports 2 more deaths, 62 fresh COVID-19 cases

24 April 2020 3:03 PM IST