Amit Shah favours unified NCR strategy for COVID-19, says Delhi can't be separated from suburbs

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ANI reported. AIIMS Medical Superintendent DK Sharma in a letter today said in accordance with current ICMT's national guidelines, it has been decided to discontinue routine Covid-19 testing prior to inpatient hospitalisations (regular as well as daycare) and also prior to any minor or major surgical or interventional or non-interventional procedures and imaging in clinically asymptomatic patients.AIIMS, Delhi announces to discontinue routine COVID-19 testing prior to inpatient hospitalization and surgeries pic.twitter.com/R0wjcSdaFl

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Phillip Schofield has returned to This Morning after testing positive for coronavirus. The 59-year-old presenter had been forced to skip hosting This Morning and Dancing on Ice and admitted he was "bored out of his brain" while locked away in his home after testing positive for Covid seven days in a row.

Canada’s Meryeta O’Dine won the bronze medal in her Olympic debut at the Beijing Winter Games in women’s snowboard cross Wednesday.

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A review is set to be launched after four children were given Covid vaccine overdoses of more than twice the approved amount.

A Business Proposal has been pushed back by a week.Today (February 9), the show’s production team announced that the premiere of A Business Proposal has been pushed back by a week, attributing the delay to stricter COVID-19 protocols on the show’s set. The show will now premiere on February 28.“We have decided to inevitably postpone the first broadcast of A Business Proposal for a week due to COVID-19 in order to change the filming schedule and secure a safe production environment,” a representative from the show said, per Sports Chosun and translated by Soompi.“The first broadcast date has been changed from February 21 to February 28,” the representative added.

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COLOMBO (News 1st); The EU has urged Sri Lanka to continue reducing the use of the PTA, and to undertake further practical and administrative steps to release on bail those detained under the PTA without charges.The European Union (EU) and the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka held their 24th meeting of the Joint Commission on 8th February 2022 in Brussels.During the meeting, Sri Lanka reiterated its objective to achieve measurable, tangible, and verifiable results on the ground in meeting its commitments.In this context, the EU welcomed the submission by the Government of Sri Lanka of amendments to the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA).

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - A juror in the Scott Peterson trial has been offered immunity before testifying at a hearing that could determine whether a new trial is granted, authorities said.Richelle Nice was Juror 7 in the trial that ended with Peterson's conviction for killing his pregnant wife, Laci Peterson, and their unborn son. However, Peterson's attorney said Nice was guilty of juror misconduct because she failed to reveal during the jury selection that she had been beaten by a boyfriend while she was pregnant. He said Peterson deserves a new trial.The offer to Nice will come before she testifies at a Feb.

Convicted rapist and murderer Wayne Couzens has been placed in isolation after catching coronavirus in prison with reports suggesting he is "suffering badly".

Train services are set to increase again as ScotRail recovers from staff shortages following a Covid surge over the festive period.

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WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 1: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) speaks during a news conference after a lunch meeting with Senate Republicans on Capitol Hill February 1, 2022 in Washington, DC. McConnell told reporters he disagrees with fo WASHINGTON - Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell is going against the Republican National Committee calling the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S.

COLOMBO (News 1st); Sri Lanka’s Deputy Director-General of Public Health Services, Dr. Hemanth Herath has slammed the organizing of mass gatherings in the wake of the COVID-19 spread in the island.‘This is not something that needs to be said over again.

Truckers paralysing the Canadian capital in anger at Covid rules show no sign of backing down, as several of the nation's provinces announced it was time to roll back restrictions that count among the world's toughest.

First nasal spray for covid-19 treatment in India: For the treatment of adult patients suffering from Covid-19, pharma company Glenmark has launched Nitric Oxide Nasal Spray (FabiSpray) in India. The nasal spray was launched by the pharma company in partnership with SaNOtize. "Phase 3 trial in India met the key endpoints and demonstrated reduction of viral load of 94 per cent in 24 hours and 99 per cent in 48 hours. Nitric Oxide Nasal Spray (NONS) was safe and well-tolerated in COVID-19 patients. Glenmark to market NONS under the brand name FabiSpray," the company said in a statement.

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ladies tights such as pantyhose on your face could reduce the risk of getting Covid, more so than masks.A major risk identified with commonly worn face masks is that they do not fit tightly enough to block viral particles from being inhaled or exhaled significantly.Cambridge University researchers have tested seven hacks to improve the fit of masks.Their new study outlined DIY hacks people have used to make masks fit better, including using rubber bands or tape.They found the most effective tactic was to wrap pantyhose around the bottom half of the face or on top of a mask.Researchers have said that this could reduce the number of viral particles by up to seven times more than a loose mask on its own by sealing the gaps around the nose and mouth.They raised that the social and physical impact of wearing tights on your face in public was "unlikely to be tolerated for an extended period of time".Tight-fitting medical masks are great at blocking out the virus, but many describe them as uncomfortable.The study raised that the most common surgical or cloth masks are far less resistant to Covid.Cambridge researchers recruited four volunteers to try seven different mask hacks - the study looked at both surgical and KN95 masks.Other methods included tying the ear bands to make the masks fit more tightly or stuffing the gaps with bandages.Participants did seven minutes of various exercises designed to mimic real-world interactions such as talking, smiling, nodding and eating.The researchers measured how well the masks fit by monitoring the filtration efficiency and calculating a 'fit factor' score.Pantyhose and cloth tape were most effective, increasing the fit factor by 27.7 and 14.7.Surgical masks performed better if worn in

Epik High frontman Tablo has tested positive for COVID-19.OURS, Epik High’s management agency, confirmed the news through a press statement released earlier today (February 9).“Tablo experienced minor symptoms on February 3 and underwent PCR testing, and his results came back negative the next day (January 4),” the agency said, as translated by Soompi. “However, he voluntarily got tested again on February 8, and his results came back positive this morning.”The statement also noted that the rest of Epik High and staff members who were recently in contact with Tablo underwent rapid antigen testing following the hip-hop artist’s diagnosis.

coronavirus infection, officials said on Sunday.The chief minister has been under home quarantine for the past four days after his return from Delhi where he took disgruntled National People's Party (NPP) MLAs of Manipur from Imphal to meet Union Home Minister Amit Shah.The first test was conducted on Sangma, who is also the NPP president, on June 22 and the second one on Sunday, an official at the CMO said.He had made a trip to Manipur capital Imphal on June 21 to meet the four party MLAs, who switched allegiance from the BJP-led ruling coalition to the Congress.

NEW DELHI : The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)-led Delhi government on Wednesday wrote to Union home minister Amit Shah demanding a rollback of the current home quarantine rules.This followed Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia writing to lieutenant governor Anil Baijal on Tuesday, urging him to adopt the original home quarantine rules, as the new guidelines were causing a lot of confusion among patients.The letter to Shah comes in the wake of Delhi recording 4,000 fresh infections in the last 24 hours, the highest single-day number, to reach a total of 70,000 on Wednesday, beating Mumbai, which has around 69,000.On Tuesday, Delhi, which had 66,000 covid-19 cases, had overtaken Tamil Nadu to become the state with the second highest number of

Soon, house screening in DelhiTo fight the coronavirus, the Delhi government has come up with an eight-point Revised Covid Response Plan, which includes house-to-house screening by 6 July. Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia has also urged Union home minister Amit Shah to roll back the earlier order which requires new patients to visit an assessment centre to get themselves checked since it puts pressure on the government’s facilities.

NEW DELHI : Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal has written to Union Home minister Amit Shah inviting him to visit the 10,000-bedded Covid care centre at Radha Soami Satsang Beas campus in Chhattarpur.Kejriwal has also requested home minister Amit Shah to help with doctors and nurses from the ITBP to help with the running of the centers.This makeshift COVID-19 care facility will be the largest in the city so far. The work is expected to be completed by the end of JuneOver the last couple of weeks Delhi government has worked out a slew of measures to help deal with the coronavirus problem in the capital which has so far taken more than 2,000 lives.

NEW DELHI : Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia has written to Union Home minister Amit Shah and Delhi Lieutenant governor Anil Baijal seeking the roll back of the rule under which every patient who has been tested positive for the coronavirus has to visit a facility for assessment.Upon assessment it is to be decided if the person quarantines at home or at a facility.In the letter, which has been written in Hindi to both Home minister and LG Baijal, Deputy CM Sisodia goes on to say that the decision has caused a lot of consternation among the people who are testing positive for Coronavirus.Everyone who is testing positive is facing a dilemma as to how one will go to an isolation facility and if he is found safe for home quarantine how will he

coronavirus cases in India after Maharashtra. With 3,000 people testing positive in the last 24 hours, Delhi's coronavirus count has inched towards the grim milestone of 60,000-mark.

NEW DELHI : Delhi will conduct serological test of 20,000 samples from June 27 after 3,000 more cases were detected in the national capital and 63 more patients have died in the last 24 hours. Union Home Minister Amit Shah reviewed Delhi's Covid-19 situation on Sunday, third time in a week, with Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal and Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and discussed recommendations made by Dr Vinod Paul committee on strategy to curb the spread of coronavirus in the national capital.

New Delhi: Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday chaired a meeting, attended by Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, Health Minister Harsh Vardhan and other senior officials to discuss coronavirus situation in the national capital. This is the third meeting on coronavirus Amit Shah has chaired in the last one week.The discussion was held on Niti Aayog member Dr V.

NEW DELHI : The Delhi government on Saturday issued an order fixing the cost of a COVID-19 isolation bed in any private hospital in Delhi in the range of ₹8,000- ₹10,000 and an ICU bed with ventilator at ₹15,000- ₹18,000 per day.The order by the Delhi Health Department said the Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) had accepted the recommendations of the high-powered committee, set up by Union Home Minister Amit Shah.The committee, under the chairmanship of V K Paul, member, NITI Aayog, was constituted earlier to ensure the availability of 60 per cent beds at private hospitals for coronavirus patients at lower rates and fix the rate of COVID-19 testing and treatment.The Delhi government on had Thursday issued an order to fix the price

NEW DELHI : Union home ministry makes institutional quarantine mandatory for five days after a patient tests positive. Home quarantine, which accounts for approximately 8500 of the active cases currently, will no longer be allowed.

₹8,000- ₹10,000. For ICU unites without ventilators, the charges will be between ₹13,000 to ₹15,000.

New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday has emphasised on the need to have a unified strategy in the Delhi-NCR region to tackle Covid-19 and touched upon various issues related to the pandemic. While chairing a meeting in New Delhi to review the preparations for management of Covid-19, Shah said that keeping in view the close knit urban structure of the NCR region, it is necessary for all concerned authorities in Delhi and the NCR region to come together to tackle the virus.The Union Home Minister said that in order to control the virus, there is a need to test more and it is also necessary to identify and treat those who are diagnosed as positive.

Arvind Kejriwal stressed on proper Covid-19 treatment in the entire NCR unit, along with Delhi. "The discussion with Home Minister Amit Shah was focussed on how we can save the entire NCR unit from Covid-19 because NCR can't be separated.

Two more AAP MLAs get covid-19After AAP MLA Atishi, Delhi health minister Satyendar Jain on Wednesday tested positive for covid-19. In the past week, Jain has been in meetings with the senior leadership of the Delhi government, including chief minister Arvind Kejriwal.

NEW DELHI : The Northern Railways Wednesday said 317 of the 503 isolation coaches deployed in Delhi will be ready by tonight to host coronavirus patients, and the rest by Thursday.As many as 503 isolation coaches are deployed at nine stations in Delhi, days after Union Home Minister Amit Shah made the announcement as part of measures to contain the novel coronavirus pandemic, officials said.Northern and North Central Railway General Manager Rajiv Chaudhary said Wednesday evening that all these will be fully ready to host coronavirus patients by Thursday, while 317 can house patients from tonight itself.He also said the national transporter was taking all measures to ensure that the temperatures inside the coaches are brought down by

coronavirus pandemic. The states are expected to raise two key issues — focus on improving access to institutional healthcare facilities and need for further opening up of economy to tackle issues of lower consumer spending and unemployment.The chief ministers of Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Delhi, Gujarat, Rajasthan Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal, Karnataka, Bihar, Andhra Pradesh, Haryana, Telangana and Odisha and the Lieutenant General of Jammu & Kashmir will meet Modi today.

₹450 is to be introduced NEW DELHI : Union home minister Amit Shah held an all-party meeting on Monday to discuss the handling of the covid-19 situation in Delhi and called for all political parties to work together to tackle the crisis. This comes just a day after the minister announced measures for containing the spread of coronavirus in the national capital.A key decision taken at the meeting held to address concerns of low levels of testing and the shortage of hospital beds, is that the government will conduct 18,000 tests in a day and also increase dedicated beds in government hospitals by 20 June.Delhi has the third-highest number of cases in India with about 42,000 covid-positive people.

political parties in Delhi on Covid-19 situation in the national capital, Union Home Minister Amit Shah appealed all parties to rise above political differences in the interest of the people.Political unity will create confidence among the public and lead to improvement in the pandemic situation in the capital, he said.Shah said they all have to stand united under the leadership of the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi in this fight against the pandemic.He also said that the Government of India will take all necessary steps to check the spread of Covid-19 in Delhi.The Union Home Minister informed the all-party meeting of key decisions taken during a meeting convened by him on Sunday and appealed to all political parties to ensure that

New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday has directed the Delhi Chief Secretary to install CCTV cameras in Covid-19 wards of every Covid-19 hospital, so that there is proper monitoring and problems of patients can also be resolved. said Ministry of Home Affairs.Shah also directed the Delhi Chief Secretary to establish back-ups for canteens supplying food, so that in case there is an infection in one canteen the patients can continue to get food without disruption, said MHA."Shah also directed that psycho-social counselling of doctors and nurses engaged in the treatment of Covid-19 patients should be done.

NEW DELHI : Tests for covid-19 in Delhi will be doubled by Tuesday and tripled in the next six days (from Sunday), Union home minister Amit Shah said on Sunday after a meeting with state and Union ministers to try and contain the spread of coronavirus in the national capital.The government will also conduct a door-to-door survey and deploy 500 train coaches to increase bed capacity, Shah said.The home minister held a meeting with Union health minister Harsh Vardhan, Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia, and Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal.

NEW DELHI : The Railways has deployed 204 isolation coaches in four states, including 54 at Delhi's Shakurbasti railway station maintenance depot, officials said, adding that the number in the capital will be scaled up to 500 in the coming days.Home Minister Amit Shah earlier Sunday had said the Centre would also provide 500 railway coaches to Delhi to overcome the shortage of hospital beds for COVID-19 patients.States like Uttar Pradesh, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and Delhi requisitioned these coaches two months after the national transporter converted over 5,000 of its non-air conditioned coaches into COVID care centres.Seventy coaches have been deployed in Uttar Pradesh -- 10 each in Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay Junction, Varanasi, Bhadohi,

NEW DELHI : India's federal government said on Sunday it will provide New Delhi's city authorities with 500 railway coaches that will be equipped to care for coronavirus patients, after a surge in the number of cases led to a shortage of hospital beds.The coaches will increase Delhi's capacity by 8,000 beds, home minister Amit Shah said on Twitter after a meeting with the capital's chief minister.The government will also ramp up testing in the city, especially in containment zones, conduct a door-to-door health survey of residents and provide sufficient supplies of oxygen cylinders and ventilators, he said.India is the fourth-worst affected country in the world, with cases steadily increasing.

NEW DELHI : Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday ordered the immediate transfer of four IAS officers to the Delhi government and attachment of another two from the Centre to help the national capital fight the coronavirus pandemic.The order was issued within hours of a high-level meeting Shah held with Delhi Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal and Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal."@HMOIndia @AmitShah directed immediate transfer of 4 IAS officers - Awanish Kumar & Monica Priyadarshini from A&N (Andaman and Nicobar Islands), & Gaurav Singh Rajawat & Vikram Singh Mallik from Arunachal Pradesh to New Delhi to assist #GNCTD (Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi) for management of #COVID19," a home ministry spokesperson said..@HMOIndia

NEW DELHI : Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday said the Narendra Modi government is committed to control the spread of coronavirus in the national capital and has taken several important decisions to protect the people of Delhi and to contain the rising number of covid-19 in the national capital.The home minister said the government will soon start coronavirus tests at every polling station in the containment zones of the national capital and a comprehensive house-to-house health survey will be done in the hotspots for contact tracing to contain the spread of coronavirus.After a few days, #COVID19 testing will be started at every polling station in the containment zones in Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah“To be able to do contact

COVID-19 patients in Delhi, the Centre has decided to immediately give 500 railway coaches to Delhi, Amit Shah said. Equipped with all facilities to fight COVID-19, these railway coaches will increase 8,000 beds in Delhi, he said.The government has also decided to double Covid testing in the next two days and increase it by three times after 6 days.

NEW DELHI : The national capital will soon receive random testing kits to enhance COVID-19 testing.

NEW DELHI : Novel coronavirus tests will be doubled in Delhi in the next two days and subsequently increased by three times, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Sunday after chairing a meeting on the spiralling cases of the pandemic in the city.Shah announced a slew of measures that will be taken now after he held a meeting with Lieutenant Governor Anil Baija and Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal at his office in North Block.Coronavirus tests in Delhi will be doubled in the next two days and increased by three times after six days, he said.The COVID-19 tests will be started at every polling station in the containment zones of Delhi in a few days and a comprehensive house-to-house health survey will be done in the hotspots for contact