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The baby's mother who was nine-months pregnant had tested positive on Thursday after her husband, a senior resident doctor working in the department of physiology at AIIMS, was found to be infected with the virus. The doctor's brother has also tested posi...

Two persons tested positive for COVID-19 on Friday evening out of the dozen Bangladeshi nationals who have been quarantined in a college in Thana Bhawan town in Shamli district, police said.

The Odisha government has given online training to 500 medical students and recruited 1,039 medical graduates to fight the coronavirus outbreak as the number of cases in the state climbed to 20.

Under the domicile law, anyone who has resided for 15 years in Jammu and Kashmir or has studied for seven years and appeared in Class 10 and Class 12 examinations in an educational institution located in the Union territory is a domicile.

The police officer said that the Special Branch (Intelligence Department) and Delhi Police Crime Branch are working relentlessly to find those preachers, who attended the Tablighi Jamaat event in Nizamuddin Markaz in Delhi last month as they are suspected...

In one of the incidents, the police had to resort to lathi-charge after a group of citizens started pelting stones when police personnel tried to disperse the crowd that had gathered for prayers.

IMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Friday said the "country is not an event management company", drawing flak from Telangana.

State authorities have so far identified 1,203 people who attended the congregation at the Jamaat headquarter, which has now emerged as a coronavirus hotspot. An official said 897 of them have been already tested.

It had called for necessary action against persons or agencies involved in contravening the relevant legal provisions and the guidelines of the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA).

The company has opened its hotels to the medical staff. This development was confirmed by Lok Sabha MP Supriya Sule.

Safdarjung Hospital's ward has been converted into a state-of-the-art COVID-19 isolation management centre, consisting of 400 isolation and 100 Intensive Care Unit beds.

Two other people who had earlier tested positive for COVID-19 were discharged from hospitals after treatment.

Officials announced that they will be imposing a curfew-like shutdown in Bhubaneswar, Bhadrak town and Cuttack and warned that any violators will be held by authorities and will be taken to state quarantine centres.

The ICMR will not provide diagnostic kits/reagents to these laboratories and laboratory test should be offered only when the sample is referred by the State Health officials.

The coronavirus outbreak has seen not only normal life come to a standstill, even sporting events across the world have either been cancelled or suspended.

Dr Ajay Chandanwale, dean of the hospital, said the woman was admitted as she had severe pneumonia, and subsequently tested positive for coronavirus.