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Thermal screening of a patient being conducted who has come for a check-up at Flu Corner in Charak Palika Hospital during the nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus, at Moti Bagh, in New Delhi. PTI Photo

How far has India reached in flattening the curve?

Aggressive testing and contact tracing needs to be taken up in the next fortnight to avoid the soaring rate of...

13 April 2020 2:17 PM IST

A pilot (unseen) operates a Japanese spray machine for sanitizing a locality during nationwide lockdown. PTI photo

13 coronavirus patients recover in Odisha

The man, who hails from Kalahandi, was undergoing treatment at Ashwini Hospital, a dedicated facility for covid patients...

13 April 2020 1:35 PM IST

GHMC and health department in discord upon containment zones in Hyderabad

GHMC and health department in discord upon containment zones in...

Complaints rise that in some areas the zones were set up without taking into account the ground reality

13 April 2020 1:26 PM IST

Forensic officials arrive at Nizamuddin Markaz to conduct an investigation, during the nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus, in New Delhi. PTI Photo

Missing Tablighi attendees from Maharashtra traced and quarantined

The religious congregation organised by Tablighi Jamaat in Delhi last month emerged as one of the major virus hotspots...

13 April 2020 12:44 PM IST

A healthcare worker collects a swab sample of a man for COVID-19 test from the swab collection booth during the nationwide lockdown in the wake of coronavirus pandemic, in Vijayawada. (PTI)

Guntur tops Covid list with highest cases in AP

12 new coronavirus cases reported in the state on Monday, tally rises to 432

13 April 2020 12:44 PM IST

Medical staff collect samples from people at a walk-in sample kiosk (WISK) to test for the COVID-19 coronavirus at the Ernakulam Medical College in Kerala. (AFP)

How Kerala is poised to win the fight against Covid-19

It was the first state to report a positive case but since then it fought hard to beat down the curve

13 April 2020 12:41 PM IST

A modified tanker is used to sanitise a locality amid nationwide lockdown over coronavirus. PTI photo

MP shifts prisoners amid lockdown, Kamal Nath raises concern over...

Till now, there was not a single COVID-19 case in Satna and Rewa districts except for these NSA detainees

13 April 2020 12:17 PM IST

A medic at the COVID-19 OPD of a hospital in Chennai. (PTI)

Covid patients mix up in TN hospitals, health secretary warns of...

More evidence turn up on Covid-19 positive and negative cases being treated in the same ward

13 April 2020 12:01 PM IST

A security officer stands guard at red zone area during a nationwide lockdown over coronavirus in Srinagar. PTI photo

Stringent action against those violating lockdown restrictions

The union territory has ramped up testing and was now testing at the rate of 289 persons per one million of the...

13 April 2020 11:56 AM IST

Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) president and opposition leader M K Stalin. (PTI)

DMK chief Stalin calls for all party meeting in Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu government had refused to entertain a request from Stalin to call for the all-party meeting

13 April 2020 10:33 AM IST

Andhra CM decides to distribute 5.3 crore free masks in the state

The CM has directed officials to distribute three masks to each person

13 April 2020 10:21 AM IST

Doctors offer flowers to patients who have recovered from COVID-19 during a nationwide lockdown in the wake of coronavirus pandemic, at Chikkaballapur in Bengaluru. (PTI)

10-month-old corona patient recovers, discharged along with mother in...

Treating the breastfeeding child was challenging for doctors as he had to be isolated

13 April 2020 9:59 AM IST