Coronavirus live updates: No lockdown in Punjab on 13 Sept in view of NEET 2020

Western Railway to run three more pairs of special trains for candidates appearing for NEET exam on 13th September. Trains to run between Vapi-Ahmedabad, Somnath-Ahmedabad and Nimach-Bhopal

Though the ban formally comes into effect on Tuesday, Street advised affected residents ``to avoid household mixing before then as it has been identified as one of the drivers of transmission.''

Amid mounting evidence of increasing transmission rates across the U.K., the mayor of the West Midlands, Andy Street, said tougher restrictions on household mixing in Birmingham, and the nearby boroughs of Solihull and Sandwell, were necessary in light of a big local increase in virus cases.

Virus spikes in UK, new restrictions in Birmingham, England

Households in England's second city, Birmingham, were being urged to stop socializing with others from Friday as part of a dramatic tightening of coronavirus restrictions in the wake of a sharp spike in new confirmed cases.

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Punjab Government lifts lockdown on 13th September, in view of NEET 2020 examination; Shops selling non-essential items to remain closed

Focus on early identification of Covid-19 cases, ramp up testing: Centre to NE states

The Centre on Friday urged the north eastern states to focus on early identification of Covid-19 cases by ramping up testing along with effective monitoring of patients under home isolation and early hospitalization in case of disease progression to keep the mortality rate to one per cent or less.

After record daily spike of 24886 cases, Maharashtra's Covid-19 tally crosses 10-lakh mark; 393 deaths take toll to 28724: Health official

First European 'travel bubble' ends as coronavirus cases spike in Estonia, reports Reuters

The first European pandemic "travel bubble", created in May by Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, was burst on Friday, as Latvia said it is mandating a 14-day quarantine on everyone arriving from Estonia.Estonia has had 21 novel coronavirus infections per 100,000 population over the previous two weeks, according to European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, passing the 16 threshold set by Latvia for mandatory quarantine.

U'khand records 995 fresh Covid-19 cases, tally rises to 29,221

Uttarakhand's COVID-19 tally climbed to 29,221 on Friday with 995 fresh cases, while the death toll mounted to 388 as 11 more patients succumbed to the disease, a state health department bulletin said.

Maha govt releases guidelines for hotels to resume operations

The Maharashtra government on Friday released a standard operating procedure and guidelines for hotels, lodges and resorts, which have been permitted to resume operations at 100 per cent capacity amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

More than 1 billion people to get Russia's COVID-19 vaccine in 2020-2021: RDIF

Russia's sovereign wealth fund said on Friday that more than one billion people would receive its COVID-19 vaccine "Sputnik-V" in 2020-21, the Interfax news agency reported.The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) has already signed two deals to export the vaccine abroad and on the Brazilian state of Bahia on Friday agreed to conduct Phase III clinical trials of the vaccine.

UP's Gautam Buddh Nagar records 204 new Covid-19 cases, pushing district's infection tally to 9,808; number of active cases now 1,909: Official data

Russian schools reopen with masks, class limit precautions

Chief minister Pramod Sawant said that state will start post covid clinics in the state to avoid post covid complications

Malaysia reports 182 new coronavirus cases, highest jump in over 3 months

Union Minister of State for Railways, Suresh Angadi, tests positive for coronavirus, reports ANI

‘Neurons in nose may be entry points of SARS-CoV-2 to brain’

A team of Indo-French scientists has found that the neurons located in the nose that help us sense smell and hypothalamus, the small region located at the base of the brain, could provide the port of entry for the SARS-CoV-2 — the virus causing Covid-19 — into the brain.Their new study, according to the department of science and technology (DST), could provide a new understanding to tackle Covid-19 patients and control the pandemic.

Health ministry to document data on post-Covid complications; NCDC likely to do telephonic survey of recovered patients

The Union health ministry has initiated an exercise to document data on post-Covid 19 complications as part of which the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) is likely to carry out a telephonic survey among recovered patients in the country using existing database.