India has passed Russia as the country with the third-highest number of coronavirus cases in the world after recording a record number of cases for one day. The health ministry added 23,000 new cases on Monday, taking India’s total to 697,000 and almost 20,000 deaths. On Sunday India racked up nearly 25,000, its highest total for one day. The increases took India past Russia as the third highest total in the world behind Brazil with 1.6m cases and the United States with 2.88m. In the Indian capital New Delhi, medical staff started treating patients at a spiritual centre converted into…
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Owing to shortage of staff, the government has decided to recruit medical staff on contractual basis to fight COVID19. “After deliberations with CM Dr. Pramod Sawant, we have taken a decision to recruit new teams on a contractual basis on top priority to designate them at respective Primary Health Centres and Community Health Centres, who will report to the respective health officers,” Rane said. He said the new staff will be dedicatedly working on collecting swabs and co-ordinating with the testing centres. “This way the existing staff of PHC & CHC will be used only for regular activities as it…
Indian food delivery start-up Zomato has been unable to access around $100 million from Ant Financial, its biggest Chinese investor, in a first major example of the impact of India’s new foreign investment laws, The Financial Times has reported citing people familiar with the matter. In January, the online restaurant guide and food ordering platform said that it had raised $150 million (over Rs 1,065 crore) from existing investor Alibaba-affiliate Ant Financial, a Chinese financial giant, as a part of a larger funding round. The investment is a part of a larger funding round, announced by Zomato Founder and CEO Deepinder Goyal in December…
New Delhi: Air India on Sunday (July 5) announced that under the Vande Bharat Mission, it will be conducting 36 flights between the United States and India from July 11 to July 19, 2020. Air India, in its statement, said that the tickets may be booked through Air India website only effective 20:00 hours (IST) on 6 July, equivalent to New York (EDT 1030 hrs of 6′ July 2020), Chicago (CDT 0930 hrs of 6 July 2020) & San Francisco (PDT 0730 hrs of 6 July 2020). Earlier, the Trump administration had imposed restrictions on Air India’s ‘Vande Bharat’ repatriation flights that are carrying Indians from…
After almost three months of his rhetoric “bhivpachi garaz na” the Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant on Sunday finally seems tohave given up saying “bhivpachi garaz aasa” and wondered by Goemkars are not scared despite seven deaths due to COVID. Sawant said that the situation is alarming he also maintained that the State has already achieved the recovery rate of 50 p.c. Importantly, the CM cautioned that the infection could increase with rains. The Chief Minister who always maintained that “Goenkarani bhivpachi garaz na” (Goans should not panic and fear Corona), today asked “I wonder why Goans do not…
Mormugao Municipal Council councillor Pascoal D’Souza, brother of NCP president Jose Philip D’Souza, succumbed to the COVID19. Pascoal became the 7th victim of the deadly disease in the State. The councillor, of Mangor hill, was admitted in MPT Covid Care Centre and was shifted to COVID hospital at Margao after his condition worsened. He was later shifted in ICU and was on ventilator support.
Health Minister Vishwjit Rane said that he will move file to Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant for seven more ambulances dedicated to COVID19 patients. He said the file will be re-activated for CMs approval. “In our constant effort to provide state-of-art facilities to our citizens, we will be augmenting our ambulance fleet. Presently the fleet of GVK EMRI is handling both COVID and Routine cases. In light of the rising cases, we will reactivate the file of seven additional ambulances and Secretary Health will take it up with the CM for approval at the earliest to add on to the…