Day: April 19, 2021

Tamilnadu today registered 10,941 new cases, and the total number of infections has touched 10,02,392.

Starting tomorrow, night lockdown will be in place in Tamilnadu to control the spread of Covid-19. Also, weekend curfew will be put in place on Sundays.

Anna University has announced that the April/May 2021 theory end-semester exams for all even semesters will be an Open Book Type for UG and PG students of the vasity’s four campuses including College of Engineering, Guindy and Madras Institute of Technology, Chrompet.

Sri Lankan cricketer Muttiah Muralitharan has undergone angioplasty at a city hospital.

A day after former Prime Minister and Congress leader Dr Manmohan Singh wrote to the PM Narendra Modi, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan today responded sharply to his five-point letter on the Covid-19 situation in the country.

A year after they last saw one another, Prince William and his brother Prince Harry put their fraught relationship aside as they said farewell to their grandfather at his funeral on Saturday.

The Africa CDC, the specialized healthcare agency of the African Union (AU), said the death toll from the pandemic stood at 117,378, while 3,951,191 patients across the continent have recovered from the disease, Xinhua news agency reported.

Vaccinated Australians could be allowed to travel overseas and quarantine at home on their return before the vast majority of the population has been inoculated against Covid-19, a Minister said on Sunday.

Israeli residents will no longer be required to wear a facial mask in public, in another sign that the country might be putting the worst of the coronavirus pandemic behind it.