8.51 am : North Delhi Mayor Jai Prakash announces that the number of beds at the civic-run Hindu Rao Hospital, which was recently converted...
8.51 am: North Delhi Mayor Jai Prakash announces that the number of beds at the civic-run Hindu Rao Hospital, which was recently converted into a dedicated Covid-19 facility, will be increased to 200 in a phased manner, PTI reports.
8.48 am: Researchers in China discover a new type of swine flu that is capable of triggering a pandemic, AFP reports, quoting a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. Named G4, the virus is genetically descended from the H1N1 strain that caused a pandemic in 2009.
8.42 am: The coronavirus pandemic is not even close to being over, World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says, according to Reuters. “We all want this to be over,” he adds. “We all want to get on with our lives. But the hard reality is that this is not even close to being over. Although many countries have made some progress globally, the pandemic is actually speeding up.”
7.59 am: Kerala enforces a “triple lockdown” in parts of Malappuram district amid a sharp rise in coronavirus cases, NDTV reports. This came after two doctors, a staff nurse and two paramedical workers in two private hospitals, were among 47 people who tested positive.
7.56 am: The World Health Organization calls on Brazil to...
