Health staff members congratulate recovered Covid-19 patients at Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education ...Read MoreAmid prevalent chaos and uncertainty over access to the essential services and commodities during the lockdown, we bring you the latest updates from your city.
* Update at 1.30pm: Himachal Pradesh: A police station sealed in Panchrukhi area of Kangra district after head constable tested Covid-19 positive on Tuesday morning.
* Update at 1.10pm: With population of 20 lakh, in most populated district of Himachal Pradesh at Kangra, experts have made an application that can trace contacts of COVID19 patient in one click within seconds. This application has been integrated with Arogya Setu mobile app of government of India also. Contact tracing in this application works by using a smartphone's Bluetooth signals to determine that whether person had come into proximity of any COVID patient in past or not.
* ANI update at 12.35pm: Three new Covid-19 positive cases reported in Kangra, Himachal Pradesh taking the total number of cases in state to 62 including 21 active cases. Of 3 new cases one is police head constable and one has travel history to Jalandhar, Punjab: Nipun Jindal, State Special Secy (Health
* PTI update at 10.50am: A migrant labourer was killed while another seriously injured after being hit by car on Ambala-Jagadhri highway near Ambala Cantonment on Tuesday morning
* Update at 9.00am: Spike of 3604 coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours; total positive cases in the country is now at 70756, including 46008 active cases, 22454 cured/discharged/migrated cases and 2293 deaths
* The UT administration will decide on home isolation for patients recovering from Covid-19 on a case-to-case basis following the new policy of the central government that allows mild or moderate cases to be discharged after 10-day stay in a hospital without a final test.
* A Covid-19 patient dodged multiple check points to reach his home town in Pratapgarh district of Uttar Pradesh on a motorcycle when he was told to quarantine himself at his home in Sector 56 till his report arrived in a day.
* A spike in the number of Covid-19 cases has prompted Punjab governor-cum-UT administrator V P Singh Badnore to seek help from PGI.
* A spike in the number of Covid-19 cases has prompted Punjab governorcum-UT administrator V P Singh Badnore to seek help from PGI.
* The coronavirus pandemic has forced PGI to cancel the annual summer vacation for its faculty as it plans to open its out patient departments (OPDs) from May 18.