A central team on Thursday visited a quarantine centre in Rajarhat area near Kolkata to take stock of the COVID-19 situation, an official said. Two central teams are in West Bengal to look into the state’s preparedness for tackling the COVID-19 outbreak. The inter ministerial central team, which is in […]
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New Delhi: As the number of novel coronavirus cases spikes in the country, the authorities are considering the option of moving from the current policy of institutionally quarantining every Covid-19 positive person to allowing mild cases to be self-isolated at home. The empowered group on availability of hospitals, isolation and […]
New Delhi: Over 150 inmates living at the ITBP COVID-19 quarantine facility in Delhi are being taught yoga by special instructors to reduce their stress as they await for their departure from the facility amidst the ongoing lockdown, officials said on Sunday. The border guarding force has deputed a team […]
Human Intelligence, a weapon used for busting terror groups in Jammu and Kashmir, has come in handy to trace people who concealed their travel history, besides in retracing the steps of coronavirus positive patients, in an operation that led to tracking of over 1,000 people who have since been quarantined […]
KOLKATA: Altogether 225 people attendees of the Tablighi Jamaat meet in Delhi and their contacts have been placed under quarantine in West Bengal, a senior health department official said on Friday. So far, around 400 COVID-19 positive cases and about 12 deaths across the country were found to have links […]
While much of the world’s output is grinding to a halt because of the coronavirus, China is slowly emerging from its shutdowns by restarting production at factories and resuming some flights. A recovery in the world’s second-largest economy provides some relief for global manufacturers in the months ahead as the […]
BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel has gone into quarantine after being informed that a doctor who administered a vaccine to her has tested positive for the new coronavirus. Merkel, 65, was informed about the doctor’s test shortly after holding a news conference Sunday announcing new measures to curb the spread […]
NEW DELHI: The Sports Authority of India (SAI) centres, which have been shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic, will be used as quarantine facilities for patients of the deadly disease, the Sports Ministry said on Sunday. The decision to allow all SAI regional centres, stadiums and hostels to be […]
The arrival of plague in Bombay in 1897 posed a new kind of quarantine problem. As a port Bombay was used to quarantines which were routinely applied to ships. In 1878, for example, the Times of India (ToI) reported on a Town Council meeting where the efficacy of quarantine rules […]
New Delhi: Ambuj Puri (name changed) along with his four friends landed at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport from Paris early on Monday morning. After experiencing a harrowing time at the airport, waiting to be screened, Puri said they were loaded into a bus packed with other passengers who had […]