Tag: corona lockdown

UNSC President Estonia calls Security Council’s handling of COVID-19 ‘a shame’

UNITED NATION: Estonia, the president of the United Nations Security Council for May, said it was a “shame” that the powerful UN body did not fulfill its responsibility in tackling the COVID-19 outbreak and slammed “stumbling blocks” in passing a resolution on the pandemic. “I think it is a shame that we have not been […]

Amid attack from Trump, WHO praises China for handling coronavirus pandemic

BEIJING: The World Health Organisation has praised China for handling the coronavirus pandemic and said that the countries need to learn from Wuhan on how the epicentre of the virus was bringing the society back to normal, a day after US President Donald Trump likened the global health body to a public relations agency for […]

Protests mark growing unrest with California stay-home order

SACRAMENTO: Californians weary of stay-at-home orders that have left millions unemployed staged displays of defiance Friday, with hundreds of flag-waving protesters gathering at the Capitol and along a famed Southern California beach, while a sparsely populated county on the Oregon border allowed diners back in restaurants and reopened other businesses. While much of the state’s […]

Several US hospitals using hydroxychloroquine in treatment of COVID-19 patients: Report

WASHINGTON: Several hospitals in the US are using the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine as the first-line of therapy for COVID-19 positive patients, a medical publication has reported. MDedge on Friday reported that hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) is currently the first-line therapy and Tocilizumab the second-line medication for people hospitalised with polymerase chain reaction-confirmed COVID-19 infection in the Yale […]

China’s coronavirus cases drop to one

BEIJING: China, where the deadly coronavirus first emerged in December last, reported just one COVID-19 case, the National Health Commission (NHC) said on Saturday. The death toll remained at 4,633 with no new fatality. As of Friday, the total confirmed cases on the mainland were 82,875. As many as 77,685 patients have been recovered, the […]

KTR – The Man On Mission

The pandemic hit has left the people in lockdown and the governments of all the countries most frustrated. Now knowing how long this lasts in many countries, some countries have been seeing the numbers dropping with a hope to see a light at the end of the tunnel. Amid this daunting task of saving lives, […]

Lockdown Extension: Liquor Shops Will Be Opened

The lockdown extension for two more weeks appeared inevitable, due to the growing number of coronavirus cases in India. The Union Ministry of Home Affairs has announced the same with a press statement. And here are the things we need to know about the third lockdown. The center has decided to exempt the Green and […]

Coronavirus Lockdown: The List Of ‘All’ Zones In AP & Telangana

The lockdown has been extended one more time as it was needed to contain the virus spread and here is how the Union health ministry divided the zones depending on the spread and containment criteria. There are a total of 733 districts in India with red, orange, and green zones, while the metropolitan cities fall […]

Centre extends lockdown till May 17th

In a big breaking news the Centre has extended the lockdown by two more weeks. The union ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has issued a press statement regarding the same and also issued guidelines for Red, Green and Orange zones. Surprisingly this time PM Narendra Modi did not turn up to address the nation to […]

The new sweep challenge is trending now in Tollywood!

The perilous coronavirus has made everybody adhered to their homes and life nowadays is so cluttered and difficult . The year 2020 has seen a surprising circumstance and everybody is searching for a ray of hope in the midst of all the tumult. Individuals are discovering various approaches to keep themselves engaged during this lockdown […]

Lockdown Violation: PIL against YSRCP MLAs

The Corona virus has caused huge destruction across the globe. To contain the spread of virus, lockdown and social distancing were the only options and many countries have imposed this. India too followed the lockdown despite the negative impact on economy. After the first lockdown, many states wanted to the lockdown to be extended and […]

May Day marks pain, not celebration for workers hit by coronavirus

JAKARTA: May Day usually brings both protest rallies and celebrations rallies marking international Labor Day. This year, many in Asia are shut up at home, riding out the coronavirus pandemic. Among the ten of millions of people left idle or thrown out of work by the crisis, garment workers have been among the hardest hit […]

May brings reopenings around the globe as coronavirus toll climbs

NEW YORK: May is bringing cautious reopenings from coronavirus lockdowns, from Beijing’s Forbidden city to shopping malls in Texas, as the grim economic toll from the pandemic ticks higher. Many communities around the world are inching toward normalcy without certainty over whether they’ve vanquished outbreaks of the virus. But bleak new figures released Thursday underscored […]