The Odisha government has relieved nine senior IAS officers from COVID-19 duty, an official said.
India’s COVID-19 count touched 2,36,657 on Saturday surpassing Italy’s latest tally of over 2.34 lakh, taking India to the sixth spot among countries with the highest caseloads of the virus.
Indian states on Sunday began identifying high-risk zones where coronavirus lockdowns should continue while the rest of country gears up to reopen in June despite a record rise in COVID-19 cases, officials said.
The Gujarat Congress accused the state government of hiding the actual figures of COVID-19 cases by earlier reducing the number of tests and now by not sharing proper information with the public to portray a rosy picture that infections had reduced in the state.
Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Thursday asked the central government to unlock its coffers and help the needy affected by the coronavirus-induced lockdown.
The global death toll from the novel coronavirus has risen over the past 24 hours by 5,581 to 349,095, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in its daily situation report.
Former Union Finance Minister and senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Thursday said that the abolition of the RBI bond is another “cruel blow” and all citizens must demand that it must be restored immediately.
With 6,387 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, India’s count of COVID-19 rose to 1,51,767 on Wednesday, said the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday (local time) hit back at Twitter for labelling his two tweets as misleading, saying the social media platform is “interfering” in the 2020 presidential election and completely “stifling” free speech.
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