The number of Covid-19 cases in Delhi rose to six on Thursday, with a 69-year-old woman, mother of a Covid-19 patient, testing positive for the novel coronavirus. Her son, with a history of travel to Japan, Geneva and Italy, had tested positive for the infection on Wednesday.
A 27-year-old man, whose father had tested positive for coronavirus last week, has also been found to be infected. This is the second confirmed case of Covid-19 in Ghaziabad.
Declaring the spread of Covid-19 as an epidemic, the Delhi government on Thursday announced its decision to shut down all schools and colleges where examinations are not on and cinema halls, as a precautionary measure, till March 31. Announcing this, chief minister Arvind Kejriwal said this would prevent coronavirus from spreading. Of the confirmed cases in the country, six have been reported in Delhi.
Escalating the crackdown on controversial Islamist outfit Popular Front of India (PFI), Delhi Police’s Special Cell has arrested its Delhi unit president, Parvez Ahmed, and secretary, Mohammad Iliyas, for allegedly funding the riots and fanning violence during anti-CAA protests in the city.
Dr Sushil Sharma of Kailash Super Speciality Hospital in Noida was headed for a busy schedule this week with four joint replacement surgeries lined up over four days in addition to emergency cases. But, as the novel coronavirus scare grew, all four surgeries got cancelled.
he number of Covid-19 cases in Delhi rose to five on Wednesday, with a 46-year-old man with a history of travel to Japan, Geneva and Italy being confirmed positive for the novel coronavirus infection.
A tour guide from Noida who tested positive for Covid-19 is officially the township's first positive case. The district health department, meanwhile, put it down to a 'technicality'.
The 32-year-old Kashmiri man arrested along with his wife in Delhi last Sunday on suspicion of working for Islamic State is an IT professional who went to two of Srinagar's top Christian missionary schools, played competitive cricket at various levels and ran a software start-up before unrest in the Valley cut short his entrepreneurial journey and forced him to take up a job, his family said on Wednesday.
While chicken has got nothing to do with the spread of the novel coronavirus, rumours and scaremongering on social media have impacted its sale drastically. Delhi meat merchants’ association has reported a dip of 70% in sale of chicken, while beef and mutton sale has seen a milder impact.
A 20-year-old student of Delhi University was killed while his two childhood friends sustained injuries after their Bullet bike hit a divider on the Hindon elevated road near Haj House on Tuesday. None of the three Delhi residents was wearing a helmet at the time of the accident, police said.
One of the death row convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya case has sought an FIR against two police constables for alleged physical assault inside Mandoli jail, where he is lodged. The incident, however, is stated to have taken place in July, last year.
A 24-year-old youth, along with an accomplice, entered the apartment of his former girlfriend in east Delhi’s Vasundhara Enclave and allegedly stabbed her as well her 45-year-old mother to death early Monday morning.
As the fourth case of novel coronavirus was confirmed in the capital, chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday said the Centre and the state government were working in close coordination to check the spread of the disease and all those who came in contact with infected people had been quarantined.
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The swab samples of six people who had come in the chain of contact with a Covid-19 patient from Raj Nagar Extension have been taken by the health department.
As the threat of novel coronavirus grows, Delhi government has decided to get DTC and cluster buses, metro trains and hospitals disinfected every day as a precautionary measure. The decision was taken in a state-level taskforce meeting chaired by chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday.
At least three schools in the city sent out advisories to parents in the past 24 hours, announcing suspension of classes as a precautionary measure in the wake of the coronavirus scare.
In Gurugram, a drug control department team seized 3.5 lakh masks and 2,500 bottles of hand sanitisers from 70 shops.
Delhi Police’s Special Cell arrested a couple with alleged links to the Khorasan module of Islamic State terror group from Okhla early on Sunday.
