Today’s topics: Outbreak in India - Outbreak globally - Celebrities that tested +ve for coronavirus - Medical updates - Economic impact - Impact on Education - Other recommendations
India witnessed highest single-day spike of 28,701 coronavirus cases along with 500 deaths in the past 24 hours pushing the total number of cases to 8,78,254 on Monday, as per Health Ministry.
Assam health minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma said the state had registered 735 fresh Covid-19 positive cases in last 24 hours and out of these 400 cases were detected in Guwahati alone.
Thousands of patients with blood disorders are enduring a nightmarish time due to a severe shortage of blood for transfusion, as donors are keeping away from blood banks citing the spurt in Covid-19 cases.
Not a single coronavirus patient under home isolation in the city has died in July and there has been a “sharp decline” in daily fatality figures in the past two weeks, a Delhi government study on COVID-19 deaths has said.
A video of a Bengaluru doctor making a passionate appeal to fellow doctors to join him and his colleague to treat COVID-19 patients at the HBS hospital in ..
The lockdown in Bengaluru will be imposed from 14 July 8 pm to 22 July 5 am. Essential services as well as scheduled exams will be allowed in the city, the state government stated.
Demonstrators filled Rabin Square to demand that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu provide economic relief after the coronavirus pandemic left more than 850,000 Israelis jobless.
Deaths in Mexico from the coronavirus pandemic rose above 35,000 on Sunday, with the Latin American country overtaking Italy for the world’s fourth-highest death total, according to Reuters data.
New York City health officials reported zero deaths related to the novel coronavirus four months after the state’s first official death was recorded on March…
Earlier today both my father and I tested positive for COVID 19. Both of us having mild symptoms have been admitted to hospital. We have informed all the required authorities and our family and staff are all being tested. I request all to stay calm and not panic. Thank you. 🙏🏽
Iconic Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and her daughter, Aaradhya, tested positive for coronavirus following news that Aishwarya’s husband and father-in-law were hospitalized with the virus.
Chief researcher Elena Smolyarchuk, who heads the Center for Clinical Research on Medications at Sechenov University, told that the human trials for the vaccine have been completed at the university and they will be discharged soon.
Dr Randeep Guleria, who heads the clinical research group of the national Covid-19 task force, said that medical examination of patients with severe illness showed that even months after recovery, their lungs continued to be in “bad shape”.
Indian business sentiment turned negative for the first time in more than a decade, reflecting pessimism on activity and profits following the coronavirus outbreak.
The clarification comes in the backdrop of CBSE facing criticism for its decision to drop key chapters like Democratic Rights, Federalism, Citizenship and Secularism from school courses.
The HRD Ministry and Home Ministry have issued the new exam guidelines or the SOP Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for higher educational institutes. Check out the full list of exam guidelines here.
Up to 40 percent of undergraduate students will be cleared to live on campus this fall, but they will still be required to take part in online instruction.
Trump administration officials pushed for a full reopening of U.S. schools in the fall on Wednesday, though they stopped short of providing detailed plans for how to return students to the classroom as the coronavirus pandemic worsens.
Chapters on federalism, nationalism and secularism have come under the axe as the Ministry of Human Resource Development decided to unburden CBSE students between classes 9-12.
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