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The concept of security patrolling through drones has been introduced at Waltair and Kurdha Divisions of ECoR and it will be soon operational at Bhubaneswar and Puri as per requirement, he said.

AIIMS Director Dr Randeep Guleria, who is also a member of a Task Force on COVID-19, on Monday reportedly said that "localised community transmission" has been seen in some pockets.

Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee said a Global Advisory Board will be set up to formulate a COVID1-9 response policy and Nobel winner Abhijit Banerjee will be a part of the board.

A Ministry of Home Affairs official said 25,500 local members of the Tablighi Jamaat and their contacts have been quarantined. Five villages in Haryana where foreign nationals, who were connected with Tablighi Jamaat, lived, have been sealed and quarantin...

Both the countries agreed on the importance of bilateral experience sharing amid the novel coronavirus or COVID-19 crisis in a telephonic conversation between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Australian counterpart Scott Morrison on Monday morning.

Police believe that the death of 70-year-old Soran Singh occurred due to injuries inflicted upon him. His body has been sent for postmortem. The police have also arrested two persons for interrogation in connection with the case.

TN CM K Palaniswami said the kits have a 30-minute window for providing results which will aid quick and more screening of people to ascertain the presence of virus.

Srivastava, a 1999-batch Indian Foreign Service officer, was serving as India's Ambassador to Ethiopia.

The reason given was, Kasaragode, the northern most district of Kerala, is a hotbed of coronavirus and allowing traffic even in emergency cases might lead to spread of Covid-19 in border districts of Mangalore, Kodagu and Mysore.

In the study, face masks were shown to significantly reduce the detection of influenza virus in respiratory droplets and seasonal coronaviruses in aerosols.

Two patients and a staff member of the Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) have so far tested positive for coronavirus at the medical facility.

The state government has sealed off Bomikhal as part of its cluster containment exercise and is conducting a house-to-house survey.

The Bihar Board 10th Result 2020 will be released by Bihar School Examination Board on its official website biharboardonline.bihar.gov.in

The purpose of the lockdown was defeated when lakhs of migrant workers and their families gathered in large numbers throwing social distancing to winds, he said.

DG Ranjan said his troops remained steadfast in the line of duty during the first phase of the COVID-19 when the "numbers of passengers were quite overwhelming" due to the incoming and outgoing evacuation and regular flights.

"Evacuation of the injured is hampered due to heavy snow and rough terrain conditions," defence spokesman Colonel Rajesh Kalia said, adding the operation was still in progress.