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People maintain social distance as they wait outside a shopping mall at Madhurawada as the whole nation goes lockdown to combat the spread of COVID-19 in Visakhapatnam on Monday. (DC Photo: Murali Krishna)

Jagan government takes over all private hospitals in Andhra Pradesh

British-era Epidemic Diseases Act invoked to effect takeover

31 March 2020 9:01 AM IST

A man and his child walk on a deserted street in Old Delhi on Friday, March 27,2020. A whole clutch of coronavirus positive cases are being traced to a religious event that took place in the Nizamuddin area of Delhi earlier this month. (DC Photo: Pritam Bandypadhyay)

6 die of Covid-19 in Telangana, all linked to Nizamuddin prayer...

All six had attended a Markaz at a mosque in the Nizamuddin area of Old Delhi

31 March 2020 8:25 AM IST

PM Narendra Modi (PTI photo)

Covid19: India eyes foreign donations for PM-CARES Fund to procure...

PM Modi also asked the Indian envoys to suitably publicise the newly-established PM-CARES Fund to mobilise donations...

31 March 2020 12:35 AM IST

Health workers spray disinfectant in Srinagar. (DC Photo by H U Naqash)

Why are so many fleeing quarantine in Kashmir?

Photographs of street dogs in the corridors of major hospitals put the focus on hospital conditions

31 March 2020 12:27 AM IST

A team of workers spray disinfectants outside as a precautionary measure during the nationwide lockdown imposed in the wake of coronavirus pandemic, in Srinagar on Monday. PTI photo

Chaos in J&K hospitals as coronavirus tally rises to 48

In J&K, as many as 11, 644 travellers and persons in contact with suspected cases are under surveillance, including 355...

31 March 2020 12:04 AM IST

A stranded migrant woman carries a child as she crosses the Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway, following the coronavirus lockdown, in Palghar. PTI image

Maharashtra govt sets up 262 relief camps for migrant workers

Thackeray appealed to the migrant labourers not to leave the state and assured to provide them all assistance

30 March 2020 11:31 PM IST

Members of the Disaster Response Force (DRF) of Telangana prepare to spray disinfectant on a street to contain the spread of the COVID-19 virus in Hyderabad. (AFP)

Hyderabad records second Covid-19 death

As per epidemic protocol, body disposed of to minimise risk of infection to family

30 March 2020 11:04 PM IST

Paramilitary personnel cordon off an area in Nizamuddin, where several people showed symptoms of infection from coronavirus after taking part in a religious gathering a few days ago, during the nationwide lockdown, in New Delhi on Monday. PTI photo

India's coronavirus cases touch 1,242 with 35 deaths

The nationwide lockdown, that has now completed six days, is helping contain the fast rise of fresh cases

30 March 2020 11:04 PM IST

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Kerala's high risk case, a senior citizen couple, recover from Covid...

Thomas aged 93 and his wife Mariamma aged 88, also had battling age related complications

30 March 2020 10:33 PM IST

Liquor ban not coronavirus claiming more lives in Kerala

Liquor ban not coronavirus claiming more lives in Kerala

The decision to give alcohol to tipplers with serious withdrawal symptoms is not scientific and unfortunate, say doctors

30 March 2020 4:35 PM IST

Fire brigade officials spray disinfectant at Suri Sadar Hospital during a nationwide lockdown, imposed in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, at Suri in Birbhum district on Sunday. PTI

Government clarifies on extending 21-day nationwide lockdown

There have been fears that the lockdown may spark severe economic and social distress

30 March 2020 1:37 PM IST

Migrants sit in a truck to try and reach their native villages during a nationwide lockdown in the wake of coronavirus pandemics, in Mathura. PTI photo

Supreme Court asks Centre for status report on steps to prevent...

The top court observed that the migration of labourers out of panic and fear is becoming a bigger problem than the...

30 March 2020 1:12 PM IST