Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari has urged States and Union Territories to take urgent action so that blockades of trucks and lorries, carrying essential goods, at inter-State/UT borders are cleared at the earliest possible to ease public life during coronavirus COVID-19.
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People who have very mild symptoms of coronavirus or those pre-symptomatic can opt for home isolation if they have the requisite self-isolation facility at their residence so as to avoid contact with other family members, the Union Health Ministry said.
The death toll due to Covid-19 rose to 934 and the number of cases climbed to 29,435 in the country today, according to the Union Health Ministry.
Private diaries operating in Tamilnadu today requested the state government to allow them to sell milk for two hours during the four-day complete lockdown which would come into effect from tomorrow.
Continuing efforts to ramp-up healthcare workforce in the fight against COVID-19, Tamilnadu Chief Minister K Palaniswami today said over 1,000 nurses have been recruitedand announcedretaining the services of government doctors, set to retire this month.
A complaint has been filed with police against Bollywood actor Kangana Ranaut for allegedly referring to members of a particular community as terrorist in a video released in support of her sister Rangoli Chandel, an official said on Friday.
A pre-dawn encounter broke out between security forces and militants in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir today, police said.
Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has slammed the government over freezing of dearness allowance, asserting that it was not necessary at this stage to impose hardships on government servants and armed forces personnel.
The death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 775 and the number of cases climbed to 24,506 in the country today, according to the Union Health Ministry.