MANGALURU: Cybercriminals have been busy during the pandemic, exploiting the fear and worry among people with Covid-themed malicious apps, phishing campaigns, malware and more. The latest trick in the book is a fake app that claims to detect the blood oxygen level. Some of these claim to read oxygen levels with the phone light and … Read more
NEW DELHI: As much as Rs 30,000 crore has been withdrawn in under four months starting April by 8 million subscribers of the Employee Provident Fund Organisation. EPFO manages a corpus of Rs 10 lakh crore built on mandatory contributions from nearly 60 million salaried people and their employers. The huge outgo is likely to … Read more
By Heesu Lee In May, when a coronavirus outbreak hit nightclubs in the South Korean capital of Seoul, health officials quickly unleashed their version of the Navy Seals — elite teams of epidemiologists, database specialists and laboratory technicians. An old-school, shoe-leather investigation showed the virus had jumped from a night-club visitor, to a student, to … Read more
New Delhi: After a Right to Information applicant sought answers to 18 questions on India’s response to Covid-19, the Central Information Commission (CIC) asked the health ministry to “compile all the measures taken by various ministries and list them chronologically on its website.” The recent order issued by chief information commissioner Bimal Julka stated that … Read more
Jaipur: Rajasthan Health Department has issued fresh guidelines for COVID-19 testing in the state. As per the new guidelines, it is now mandatory to submit Aadhar Card number in the RT-PCR App for the person being tested for coronavirus. If the person undergoing testing does not have an Aadhaar card (like small children), then one … Read more
New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday said people of the city, his government and the Centre together have attained victory over COVID-19 but the fight is not yet over. Speaking at the inauguration of a 450-bed Delhi government hospital in Burari via videoconferencing, he said in the last one month, coronavirus-related parameters … Read more
NEW DELHI: Former Reserve Bank governor Raghuram Rajan has said the countries that tried to fight coronavirus pandemic in a decentralised manner have done reasonably well as compared to others. Citing the example of Germany and South Korea, Rajan said that these countries have allocated resources at the centre but left the details to provinces. … Read more
CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu‘s daily Covid-19 count touched 6,785 on Friday, the highest so far. However, testing too was at an all-time high with 63,182 people being tested, the State bulletin confirmed. This comes a day after the State reported an all-time high on Thursday with 6472 people testing positive for Covid-19. The death toll rose … Read more
By David D. Kirkpatrick LONDON: The race for a vaccine against the coronavirus intensified Monday as three competing laboratories released promising results from early trials in humans. Now comes the hard part: proving that any of the vaccines protects against the virus and establishing how much immunity they provide — and for how long. “What … Read more
NEW DELHI: Amidst rising coronavirus cases and the resultant pressure on the availability of beds, Bihar has decided to allow home isolation of asymptomatic patients on the basis of an undertaking by the patient and a district official’s approval. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday also ordered for a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) … Read more