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After 10 days, Chennai reports less than 1,000 Covid-19 cases on Tuesday

Tamil Nadu state as a whole reports 1,515 new infections, taking total tally to 48,019

Story in numbers: Job hunt, marriage major driver of internal migration

Between 2001 and 2011, while the population grew by 18%, the number of migrants jumped 45%

Covid-19 testing in Mumbai to take a hit after private players barred

In Delhi too, SRL Diagnostics was told to stop testing certain categories of patients at the end of May for a few days, officials say

NHRC notices to FinMin over health workers facing 'refusal' on mediclaim

It is further stated that while most doctors have a medical cover, the struggle has mainly been about ensuring protection for their staffers, the NHRC said

Govt permits few categories of foreigners to enter India amid Covid-19

The Ministry of Home Affairs has allowed certain categories of foreigners, including OCI cardholders and minors who hold OCI cards, whose parents are Indian nationals, a senior ministry official said

Covid-19: Finding ambulances with oxygen a struggle for families in Delhi

154 ambulances have also been converted to dedicated Covid-19 ambulances so the resources are divided between those suffering from the coronavirus infection and those with other diseases

Delhi L-G forms panel to suggest steps to tackle Covid-19 outbreak in city

The six-member panel also includes two members of the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) and AIIMS Director Randeep Guleria

Covid-19: India does not have community transmission, says ICMR chief

Less than 1% infected, urban slums at higher risk, says India's first serosurvey

Coronavirus pandemic: India surpasses UK, now 4th worst-hit country

India is now at the fourth spot, only behind the US (2,076,495 cases), Brazil (787,489) and Russia (502,436), as per Worldometer figures

As Covid-19 cases rise, Delhi govt races to arrange 15,000 beds by end-June

A senior doctor in a private hospital said that the government had hired a lot of junior doctors which had added numbers, but had not solved the problem

Delhi added 10,000 coronavirus cases in eight days from June 1

Delhi reported its first case on March 1, when a businessman in East Delhi was diagnosed with Covid-19 after returning from Italy

Covid-19 has material impact on healthcare services ops: Apollo Healthcare

Apollo Hospitals said it is still evaluating the full impact of the current situation on its business and will continuously calibrate responses to the Covid-19 situation as it evolves

Spread of coronavirus from people without symptoms is 'rare': WHO

Van Kerkhove said many of them turn out to have mild disease, or unusual symptoms

Over 55 NSG personnel have tested Covid-19 positive; combat commandos safe

Some among them have recovered while some personnel among the positive cases were asymptomatic and detected only after contact tracing and testing, they said

Focus on house-to-house survey, prompt testing: Health min to civic bodies

In terms of infrastructure and human resource management for containment of Covid-19, the Health Ministry said proper planning for health infrastructure should be taken up

Religious places gear up to reopen from June 8 amid uptick in Covid cases

Prasad, flowers and other items of rituals will be banned, thermal guns will be used to screen people

Few pvt Delhi hospitals doing 'black marketing of Covid-19 beds': Kejriwal

The government is talking to the owners of private hospitals to determine their problems in reserving 20 per cent of their beds for Covid-19 patients, he said

Tamil Nadu govt caps coronavirus treatment charges in private hospitals

The per day charges for treatment in Intensive Care Units shall not exceed Rs 15,000

Serum Institute risks making Covid vaccine before trial at new $100 mn unit

AstraZeneca deal with SII is for supply of a billion doses, with a commitment to provide 400 mn before 2020-end. If all goes well, India could have its first set of Covid-19 vaccines by end of year

India records highest single day jump of 9,304 coronavirus cases

India is seventh among the countries worst hit by the Covid-19 pandemic after the US, Brazil, Russia, the UK, Spain and Italy