Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin asked regional governors on Monday to consider introducing a partial lockdown to halt the spread of the coronavirus.
Month: March 2020
Allaying fears of people and businesses, the government on Monday said that there was no immediate plan to extend the 21-day lockdown amid fears that shutdown of businesses across the country to counter the spread of coronavirus may trigger severe economic and social distress.
With the State witnessing 17 cases in just one day, the Tamilnadu government is making all efforts to trace close to 1,000 Tamil Muslims who had taken part in a three-day Tablighi Jamaat conference at a Nizamuddin mosque in Delhi that ended on 23 March and returned home.
 Ever since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, face mask has become one of the most sought after commodity. The personal protective equipment is being used by everyone who ventures out.
When Sanoob Thambi, a resident of East Tambaram, bid adieu to his family at the Chennai airport in December 2019, little did he know about what he was going to face in China.
The number of COVID-19 cases climbed to 1,071 in India on Monday, while the death toll rose to 29, according to the Union Health Ministry.
The Defence Research Development Organisation has developed a prototype ventilator that can be used for multiple patients, its chief Satheesh Reddy said, amid a spike in the number of coronavirus cases in the country.
Union Health Ministry today clarified that the country is still in the local transmission stage, fit reaches the community transmission stage, the Ministry will admit it but the country is not there yet while responding to question on the outbreak of coronavirus COVID19 pandemic.
Greater Chennai City Police Commissioner A K Viswanathan has said emergency travel passes are given
only to those who have medical emergency, death in their family and to attend already planned marriage of their close kin.