E-commerce, online firms struggle to get permits to deliver essentials, run warehouses
BENGALURU : After four days of the lockdown, e-commerce and other online delivery companies are still struggling to obtain permits to operate warehouse and deliver food, medicines and other essential items to customers. Companies said that there is little coordination not only between the central government and states but within states too, as different cities in […]
Defying social-distancing norms in Singapore now means fine up to Rs 5 lakh or jail time
New Delhi: Singapore has a message for people defying social-distancing norms amid the Covid-19 pandemic — pay a fine of up to $10,000 (Singapore Dollar, just over Rs 5 lakh) or serve up to six months in jail. The punishment also applies to people returning from abroad who defy the mandatory 14-day quarantine. The Singapore government has now empowered quarantine […]
Covid-19: what we know and do not know about the coronavirus
Reports that a woman in Japan has tested positive for the Covid-19 disease for a second time, after seemingly recovering, will alarm scientists and public health experts trying to control the spreading epidemic, and underlines how much we still do not know. There are a number of possible explanations for the second positive test of the woman, in her […]
Coronavirus: Five More Test Positive, Total Cases 38
Srinagar In a sudden spurt in coronavirus cases in Kashmir, five more COVID-19 positive cases were reported in the Valley on Sunday. This takes the total number of coronavirus disease (COVID1-9) cases in the entire J&K to 38. “5 more positives cases confirmed in Kashmir -2 from Srinagar, 2 Budgam, 1 Baramulla,” tweeted government spokesman […]
Coronavirus Pandemic: Italy Records Another 889 Deaths, Spain 832; US Has Highest Confirmed Cases
Italy’s death toll from the novel coronavirus shot past 10,000 on Saturday with 889 new deaths, the country’s civil protection service said. The toll in Italy, which has suffered more deaths than any other country, now stands at 10,023. An additional 5,974 infections brought to 92,472 the number of people who have officially tested positive […]
Trump drops idea of coronavirus lockdowns: Live updates
US President Donald Trump has backed away from imposing a quarantine in the New York area, instead directing that a “strong travel advisory” be issued for the area. The announcement on Twitter came late on Saturday as criticism grew over Trump’s earlier call to prohibit travel in and out of virus hotspots in the states of […]
Coronavirus: Kashmir records second death
Srinagar The Kashmir Valley recorded the second fatality due to the novel coronavirus as a 52-year-old man hailing from Tangmarg area of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district died on Sunday wee hours. Reports said that a man died at Chest Disease hospital Dalgate, Srinagar at around 4:00 am. A doctor told news agency GNS that the […]
Coronavirus: Why are deaths rising so quickly in Spain?
Granada, Spain – Every night in Spain since the coronavirus state of alert was decreed on March 14, citizens take a moment to applaud the country’s beleaguered medical workers. But this hopeful image does little to dim the pain of the pandemic; Spain’s daily death toll reached a harrowing new high of 769 on Friday, bringing the total number of […]
Tata Trusts commits Rs 500 cr for Covid-19 crisis as positive cases rise in India
New Delhi: With the number of Covid-19 cases on the rise in India and its rapid spread across most of the states, Tata Trusts Saturday pledged Rs 500 crore for the vulnerable and the needy by way of providing medical devices and other facilities. “In this exceptionally difficult period, I believe that urgent emergency resources need to be deployed to cope with […]
Multiple Landslides Block Jammu-Srinagar National Highway, Hundreds Of Trucks Stranded
Jammu: The Jammu-Srinagar National Highway was blocked at over a dozen places by landslides triggered by heavy rains in Ramban district, leaving hundreds of trucks carrying essential commodities to Kashmir stranded, officials said today. The men and machinery are on the job and efforts are on to make the 270-km-long highway, the only all-weather road […]