CONTAINMENT ZONES

Each police zone to fine 1,000 maskless people per day in Mumbai: Mumbai Police Commissioner

To prevent the spread of COVID-19 in the metropolis, Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh has asked the city police force to take strict act...

Maharashtra: 229 school students, three staffers test Covid positive at a Hostel in Washim

As Maharashtra battles a surge in Covid, 229 cases have emerged from a single hostel in a school in Washim district. The school premises ha...

Assam school sealed for 7 days, premise declared containment zone

The Don Bosco School, Guwahati has been sealed for seven days from Sunday, after a teacher and another one's family member tested positive ...

Hostels, residential schools: Five or more Covid cases make them containment zones in Karnataka

Karnataka on Tuesday reported 438 new cases with six deaths. The number of discharges stood at 344. Bengaluru urban district reported 306 c...

COVID-19: Government issues fresh SOPs for offices

​Work can resume after disinfection has been completed as per laid down protocols, the standard operating procedures (SOPs), which were iss...

India showing declining trend of COVID-19 cases since last four months, says government

Minister of State for Health Ashwini Choubey was responding to a question on the reasons for exponential multiplication of coronavirus case...

SC asks states, UTs to decide by Jan 31 on re-opening of Anganwadi centres outside containment zone

A bench headed by Justice Ashok Bhushan directed that all states and UTs shall issue "necessary orders regarding monitoring and supervision...

Adani International Container Terminal's maiden bond issue oversubscribed by 10 times

The issue of 10 years was priced at par to yield 3 per cent which is also the lowest coupon achieved by any corporate Indian issuer in the ...

Adani Ports JV to raise $300 million

APSEZ said AICTPL intends to use the proceeds from the offering, upon receipt of requisite approvals, to repay all of its existing senior i...

COVID-19: 50% drop in home isolation cases in last 15 days in Delhi

The number of containment zones, which had been rising in this period, also registered a marginal fall in its count to 6,430 on Thursday co...

Doorstep survey throws up 1,178 COVID-19 cases in Delhi's containment zones, densely populated area

The RT-PCR test reports of a total of 18,336 symptomatic cases and their contacts gave up 1,178 positive results, a Delhi government offici...

District authorities setting up micro-containment zones as COVID-19 cases surge in Delhi

The Delhi Epidemic Disease COVID-19 Regulation, 2020, authorises district magistrates to seal off a geographical area, banning entry and ex...

COVID-19: Delhi records 121 deaths and 6,746 fresh cases

These fresh cases came out of the 54,893 tests conducted on Saturday, including 23,433 RT-PCR tests, according to the latest bulletin issue...

Covid containment zones rise to over 4,550 in Delhi

The national capital has witnessed a surge in cases since October 28, when the daily rise breached the 5,000-mark for the first time, and i...

Door-to-door survey in Delhi containment zones amid COVID-19 spike

The survey will be completed within five days and will cover over 57 lakh people in containment zones, dense areas and identified clusters ...

Doubling COVID capacity, raising ICU beds among steps taken to tackle spike in cases in Delhi: Govt

Addressing a press conference, Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan said Delhi was testing very less in June at around 5,776 tests per day...

Penalties worth Rs 45 crore imposed in last several days for violations of COVID safety norms: Satyendar Jain

Interacting with reporters, he said the problem is that many people are not feeling afraid of this virus at all. Therefore they roam around...