Coronavirus | Twenty places declared Red Zones in Kashmir as positive cases touch 55

The administration has put 15,001 travellers and persons in contact under surveillance, which include 9,895 home quarantine.

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No extension of retirement date for officials in March

In another order, the DoPT has written to the Chief Secretaries of all the States and the Union Territories for extension of the time lines for the recording of the performance assessment reports of All-India Service (AIS) officials.

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Coronavirus | Jharkhand records first positive case

Till now, 274 samples of suspected COVID-19 cases have been tested in Jharkhand, of which 266 were found negative.

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You do not have any symptoms of coronvairus, should you wear a mask in public? #wanitaxigo

You do not have any symptoms of coronvairus, should you wear a mask in public?

If you’re not sick with the new coronavirus, should you wear a mask in public? Global health authorities say no. Amid a shortage of masks, the U.S. is sticking with that advice but Tuesday, President Donald Trump suggested people who are worried wear a scarf.

That shortage is so severe that the Joint Commission, which accredits U.S. hospitals, said Tuesday that if facilities can’t provide proper masks, health workers are allowed to bring their own from home.

Front-line health workers have the greatest need for masks. And when people are sick, wearing a mask helps lessen the chances of infecting others. In places where relatives care for the sick at home, the World Health Organization also has recommended they wear a mask.

But “there is no specific evidence to suggest that the wearing of masks by the mass population has any particular benefit,” Dr Mike Ryan, the WHO’s epidemics chief, told reporters Monday.

“In fact, there’s some evidence to suggest the opposite,” he added, noting risks from an improperly fitted mask or touching the face while taking it off or putting it on.

For months as the COVID-19 crisis grew and masks disappeared from store shelves, U.S. health officials have agreed. The virus is believed to spread mostly through droplets from coughs or sneezes, and thus the main advice has been to keep your distance — staying two meters away — in addition to frequent hand-washing and not touching your face. Health workers who may be doing procedures that generate tinier particles are supposed to get high priority for tight-fitting filtering masks.

“Seriously people - STOP BUYING MASKS!” Surgeon General Jerome Adams wrote in a 29 February tweet. “They are not effective in preventing the general public from catching #Coronavirus but if healthcare providers can’t get them to care for sick patients, it puts them and our communities at risk.”

But mask-wearing has long been common in some countries during respiratory outbreaks, especially in parts of Asia. As questions grow about whether people sometimes can spread the virus before realizing they’re sick -- which social distancing is supposed to address — increasingly people ask what it would hurt to wear some form of mask in public.

Trump said Tuesday that his scientific advisers made clear the general public shouldn’t be competing with hospitals and health workers for scarce masks of any type.

His solution: “Use a scarf if you want,” Trump said at the daily White House briefing. “It doesn’t have to be a mask. It’s not a bad idea at least for a period of time.”

Earlier in the day, Dr Anthony Fauci, infectious disease chief at the U.S. National Institutes of Health, had told CNN that once there are enough masks, there might be “some very serious consideration” about broadening the mask recommendations.

For now, the advice posted on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s website: “If you are NOT sick: You do not need to wear a face mask unless you are caring for someone who is sick (and they are not able to wear a face mask).”

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Oil prices mixed, U.S. inventory build-up heightens oversupply concerns

Crude oil benchmarks opened the month mixed on Wednesday, following their biggest-ever quarterly and monthly losses, overshadowed by fears of global oversupply as data showed a bigger-than-expected rise in inventories in the United States.

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लॉकडाउन: जर्मनी में भी हर तरफ कोरोना का ही रोना, पड़ोसी देशों की सीमाएं बंद

यूरोपीय महाद्वीप की सबसे बड़ी और विश्व की चौथी सबसे बड़ी अर्थव्यवस्था जर्मनी में भी कोरोना का ही रोना है। यहां से कोरोना वायरस का संक्रमण रोकने के लिए कमोवेश वही उपाय किए गया हैं जो भारत में हैं।

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U.S., Russia energy officials spoke about global oil market plunge

U.S. Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette spoke with Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak about the slump in global oil markets on Tuesday, the U.S. Energy Department said in a release.

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200 से ज्यादा देशों तक फैले कोरोना से 176,714 लोग हुए ठीक, स्पेन-इटली में 20000 से अधिक मौतें

पहले एक लाख पीड़ितों की संख्या तक पहुंचने में तीन महीने लेने वाली कोरोना वायरस महामारी का असर तेजी से बढ़ रहा है।

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Coronavirus turns Japan business mood negative for first time in seven years

Japanese manufacturers turned pessimistic for the first time in seven years in the three months to March, the central bank's "tankan" survey showed, as the coronavirus pandemic pushed the economy closer to recession.

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कोरोना वायरस के 'पापा' के सवाल पर घमासान, चीन और अमेरिका में बढ़ा वाक युद्ध

कोरोना वायरस का दुनिया के देश दंश झेल रहे हैं। सितंबर 2019 में चीन में कोरोना का पहला ममला सामने आया था विशेषज्ञों का यही कहना है।

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Stocks under pressure after biggest quarterly drop since 2008

Asian shares faced another leg lower on Wednesday as the coronavirus sharply slows global growth, leading a gauge of world stocks to post its biggest quarterly decline in more than a decade and oil prices to trade near lows last seen in 2002.

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तब्लीगी जमात में शामिल कश्मीरी कारोबारी ने मरने से पहले कई लोगों को किया संक्रमित

दिल्ली के निजामुद्दीन में तब्लीगी जमात में शामिल श्रीनगर के कारोबारी की कोरोना वायरस से मौत हो गई है।

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Exclusive: U.S. plans to lease space to energy companies to store oil in emergency reserve

The U.S. Department of Energy plans to announce as soon as Wednesday it will allow oil companies to lease space in the emergency oil reserve, as it seeks to comply with President Donald Trump's directive to fill the facility to capacity, two industry sources said.

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आशंकाः मरकज से निकलकर छिप गए हैं कोरोना संक्रमित लोग

निजामुद्दीन स्थित तब्लीगी जमात का मरकज कोरोना वायरस संक्रमण का सबसे बड़ा केंद्र बनकर सामने आया है।

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Australian regulator approves Asahi-AB Inbev $11 billion Australia deal

Australia's competition regulator said on Wednesday it will not oppose Asahi Group Holdings Ltd buying Anheuser Busch InBev's domestic operations for $11 billion, after the Japanese firm agreed to sell some of its beer and cider brands.

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Some banking systems may need help in worst-case scenario - IMF

Some countries' banking systems might have to be recapitalized or even restructured, if their economies are severely handicapped by prolonged disruption from the coronavirus outbreak, officials at the International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday.

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कोरोना का बम और जानलेवा लापरवाही, दिल्ली से देशभर में फैलाया कोरोना संक्रमण

निजामुद्दीन स्थित मरकज में आए लोगों से देशभर में कोरोना संक्रमण फैलने की आशंका है।

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कोरोना: WHO की एशिया और प्रशांत क्षेत्रों को चेतावनी, कहा- वायरस से लंबी है लड़ाई

विश्व स्वास्थ्य संगठन (डब्ल्यूएचओ) ने चेतावनी दी है कि कोविड-19 को लेकर पूरा ध्यान जहां पश्चिमी यूरोप और उत्तर अमेरिका के सर्वाधिक प्रभावित क्षेत्रों की ओर चला गया है वहीं एशिया और प्रशांत क्षेत्र में यह महामारी अभी समाप्त होने से बहुत दूर है।

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अच्छी खबर : Jio से लेकर BSNL तक मोबाइल कंपनियों ने बढ़ाई वैलिडिटी, मुफ्त टॉकटाइम भी

कोरोना संकट के बीच ट्राई की अपील के बाद सभी दूरसंचार कंपनियों ने अपने प्रीपेड ग्राहकों की वैलिडिटी को लॉकडाउन तक बढ़ा दिया है। इसमें सार्वजनिक क्षेत्र की बीएसएनएल-एमटीएनएल के अलावा जियो, एयरटेल और वोडा आइडिया भी शामिल हैं।

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कोरोना का इलाज एचआईवी नहीं मलेरियारोधी दवाओं से, केंद्र ने दी नई गाइडलाइन

कोरोना वायरस के इलाज के दौरान आईसीयू में पहुंचे संक्रमितों को मलेरियारोधी दवा हाइड्रोक्सीक्लोरोक्विन को एजीथ्रोमाइसिन के साथ देने की सिफारिश केंद्रीय स्वास्थ्य मंत्रालय ने की है।

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तबलीगी जमात में दिल्ली गए मध्यप्रदेश के 82 लोगों की हुई पहचान, क्वारंटीन में रखा

दिल्ली के निजामुद्दीन इलाके में मरकज में आयोजित की गई तबलीगी जमात धार्मिक सभा के बाद सामने आए कोरोना वायरस के मामलों ने पूरे देश हड़कंप मचा दिया है। हालांकि इस सभा में शामिल होने के बाद मध्यप्रदेश लौटकर आए 82 लोगों की पहचान कर ली गई है।

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कोरोना वायरस पर राष्ट्रीय तैयारी की रिपोर्ट जल्द, 266 आईएएस का फीडबैक होगा शामिल

केंद्र सरकार जल्द ही कोरोना वायरस से जुड़ी राष्ट्रीय तैयारियों पर अपनी सर्वे रिपोर्ट पेश करेगी। यह रिपोर्ट 266 आईएएस अधिकारियों से मिले फीडबैक के आधार पर तैयार की जा रही है।

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University develops automatic, hand-held, inexpensive ventilator units to combat coronavirus pandemic

As the demand for ventilators rises with the number of coronavirus patients growing across the globe, a Texas-based university has developed an automatic, hand-held and inexpensive breathing unit that can soon be used to combat the COVID-19 pandemic that has killed over 37,500 people.

A total of 782,365 COVID-19 cases have been reported across more than 175 countries and territories with 37,582 deaths reported so far, according to Johns Hopkins University data.

Across the United States, hospitals are facing shortages of ventilators, some medical device makers, including Philips, have agreed to ramp up supplies.

But because patients diagnosed with or suspected to have COVID-19 often require breathing support, there is widespread concern that these devices won't be developed and shipped quickly enough.

Texas-based Rice University and Canadian global health design firm Metric Technologies have developed an automated bag valve mask ventilation unit that can be built for less than  $300 worth of parts and help patients undergoing treatment for COVID-19.

The collaboration expects to share the plans for the ventilator by making them freely available online to anyone in the world.

The varsity team designed and built a programmable device able to squeeze a bag valve mask. These masks are typically carried by emergency medical personnel to help get air into the lungs of people having difficulty breathing on their own. But the masks are difficult to squeeze by hand for more than a few minutes at a time.

"It's automatic, electric, and works independently of a tech," Wettergreen, a varsity professor and member of the Design Kitchen team, told PTI.

"It's not designed for people who are critical cases, but rather who are in respiratory distress," the professor said.

That delineation is important: the automated Bag Mask Valve (BVM) would take less-critical patients off ventilators and free them up for only those in dire need. The benefit could be a game-changer for those on the front lines of the COVID-19 battle, Wettergreen said.

"When a crisis hits, we use our skills to contribute solutions. If you can help, you should, and I'm proud that we're responding to the call," said the professor.

The design has caught the attention of the Department of Defense, which may authorise the Navy to utilise it in the near future.

It's a huge feat for the small unit, dubbed the Apollo BVM team, whose students worked around the clock and took classes online in order to deliver the project as soon as possible.

Rohith Malya - an assistant professor of emergency medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, an adjunct assistant professor of bioengineering at Rice, and a principal at Metric Technologies - coined the name as a tribute to Rice's history with NASA and former US President John F Kennedy's now-famous speech kicking off the nation's efforts to go to the moon.

"This project appeals to our ingenuity, it's a Rice-based project and it's for all of humanity. And we're on an urgent timescale. We decided to throw it all on the table and see how far we go," he said.

Malya inspired the Rice project two years ago after seeing families try to keep critically ill loved ones at the Kwai River Christian Hospital in Thailand alive by bag-ventilating them for hours on end. He expects the new Apollo BVM to serve that purpose eventually, but the need is now worldwide.

"This is a clinician-informed end-to-end design that repurposes the existing BVM global inventory toward widespread and safe access to mechanical ventilation," Malya said, noting that more than 100 million bag valve masks are manufactured around the world each year.

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Asia shares edge up, China factories show flicker of life

Asian shares managed a tentative rally on Tuesday as factory data from China held out the hope of a rebound in activity even as other countries across the globe all but shut down.

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Amazon's FBA service waiving two weeks of March storage fees - email

Amazon.com Inc's Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) service will waive two weeks of storage fees in March, according to an email seen by Reuters.

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Crude rises after U.S., Russia agree to oil market talks

Oil recovered some ground on Tuesday as U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to discuss stabilising energy markets, but prices remain near 18-year lows as the coronavirus shutdown destroys demand.

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Hot Stocks | Here are 3 short-term buys that can give up to 10% return

As far as support is concerned, the level of 8,095 on Nifty would play a key role

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U.S. coronavirus death toll passes 3,000: Johns Hopkins University

Trump cancelled his plans to re-open much of the country by Easter and extended social distancing guidelines until the end of April

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15 booked for violating lockdown norms in Ballari

As many as 15 people have been booked under various sections of Indian Penal Code for conducting a jatra violating the lockdown regulations imposed fo

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Railways arranges for distribution of food packets in Hubballi

Extending a helping hand to those in need, the South Western Railways has arranged for the distribution of food packets to over 1,000 people. A releas

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Constable, another suspendedfor assaulton archak

Dakshina Kannada Superintendent of Police B.M. Laxmi Prasad has placed police constable Shankar Samsi under suspension for an alleged assault on an ar

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Coronavirus | DLSAs get together to help pilgrims stranded in Gaya

Advocate Sami Durai said they were psychologically affected, staying far away. But they have understood the situation and are co-operating with the authorities there and were in touch with their families over phone.

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Coronavirus | 13 participants of Delhi meet in isolation ward

They have no symptoms of COVID-19 so far, says Virudhunagar Collector

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Door-to-door screening on in containment zone

21,300 houses checked in two days by a team of 176 workers

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Coronavirus | Allow movement of migrant workers, says Manish Tewari

The problem, he said, is not Delhi-centric and that the workers across the country are clamouring to get back to the safety of their communities, the Congress MP.

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Coronavirus | Close to 90,000 register with NDMA as volunteers

Close to 90,000 individuals and over 3,700 organisations have so far registered with the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led National Disaster Management

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‘State of Emergency’ reports totally fake, says Army

The Army has described as “absolutely fake” messages circulating on social media about the “likely declaration” of a state of Emergency in the country

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No plans to extend lockdown: says Cabinet Secretary

The three-week lockdown is scheduled to end on April 14.

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Coronavirus | Telecom operators extend validity of prepaid packs

The two state owned telcos — BSNL and MTNL, on Monday extended the validity of their prepaid packs and committed to credit additional talk time of ₹10 to such accounts amid the 21-day lockdown.

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Coronavirus | Ensure there is no starvation during lockdown, Mamata Banerjee tells officials

Allot one hospital dedicated to the virus in every district, says Bengal Chief Minister.

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कोरोना की चुनौती : देश में 1200 पार हुई मरीजों की संख्या, एक दिन में 227 और मरीज, सात की मौत

देश में कोरोना संक्रमण की चपेट में आने वालाें की संख्या बढ़ती ही जा रही है। सोमवार को संक्रमितों की संख्या 1200 के पार पहुंच गई। स्वास्थ्य मंत्रालय के अनुसार बीते 24 घंटे में 227 नए मरीज आए।

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Asia shares make cautious gains, investors eye China PMI

Asian share markets managed a tentative rally on Tuesday after European and U.S. equities stabilised, though buying for month and quarter-end book balancing likely flattered the gains.

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Rio Tinto to scale back New Zealand aluminium smelter due to virus

Rio Tinto Ltd said on Tuesday its Tiwai smelter in New Zealand will scale back some operations to ensure the health and safety of its workers and comply with government restrictions on containing the coronavirus.

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