Tamilnadu on Sunday recorded eight deaths due to COVID-19, taking the toll to 111 while 765 fresh cases saw the state’s total infections breaching the 16,000 mark, the Health department said.
Day: May 25, 2020
Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has requested India to provide a special USD 1.1 billion currency swap facility to boost the country’s draining foreign exchange reserves in view of the economic slowdown due to the coronavirus pandemic.
As the flight operations resumed in Chennai today after two months, the guidelines issued by the government said all domestic air travellers coming into Tamilnadu should register themselves in TNePass portal and (if asymptomatic) should undergo 14 day home quarantine.
After two months, flight services resumed in Tamilnadu and other parts of the country today. From Chennai airport, the first flight post Covid-19 was an Indigo aircraft, which took passengers to Delhi.
Investments through participatory notes (P-notes) in the domestic capital market increased to Rs 57,100 crore as of April 30 after falling to over 15-year low at the end of the preceding month.
Scientists have achieved the world’s fastest internet data speed, which is enough to download 1000 HD movies in a split second, using a single optical chip, an advance that can help scale up the capacity of network connections across the world.
People are more worried about economic crisis than health issues emanating from coronavirus pandemic, according to an online study conducted by IIM Lucknow on “Understanding public sentiment during lockdown”.
Researchers have developed a more efficient membrane filter that can be attached to a regular N95 mask and replaced when needed.