Maharashtra on Friday recorded 47827 new COVID-19 cases, the highest daily count since the coronavirus pandemic began. The new figure took the state tally of positive cases to 2904076, a Health Department statement said. As many as 202 coronavirus patients died in the state on Saturday, taking the death toll to 55379, it said. Source … Read more
The Don Bosco School, Guwahati has been sealed for seven days from Sunday, after a teacher and another one’s family member tested positive for COVID-19, an official order said. Kamrup Metropolitan Deputy Commissioner Biswajit Pegu declared the entire school premises as “containment zone” till February 27 to prevent further spread of coronavirus among the teaching … Read more
The COVID-19 inoculation process of polling officials who will be involved in the ensuing assembly elections in West Bengal will commence from February 22, a senior health official said. “All polling officials are considered as frontline workers and as per the rule, must be vaccinated before the election process starts in West Bengal. We will … Read more
NEW DELHI: Designed to be the digital nerve centre of India’s Covid-19 vaccination programme, glitch-prone Co-WIN failed to inject integration efficiency into the massive nationwide exercise for the second consecutive day. Some states faced minor glitches on Monday that were quickly fixed, but most struggled to get going in the face of data lag, erroneous … Read more
Hyderabad: Telangana is in the process of creating the required infrastructure for administering COVID- 19 vaccine initially to about 80 lakh people, including front-line warriors,once the preventive medicine is available for the state, official sources said on Wednesday. Training programmes for almost 10,000 vaccinators were underway and storage facilities for the doses being set up … Read more
IDUKKI (Kerala): Five people were killed when a mound of earth caved in on a row of houses of tea estate workers at Pettimudi in the high range Idukki district early Friday morning as heavy rains pounded the area triggering a landslide. Police sources said that five bodies have been recovered. Five others who were … Read more