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Coronavirus Pandemic: Maruti Suzuki to manufacture ventilators, masks for patients, health workers

OpIndia Staff -
Maruti Suzuki has collaborated with AgVa Healthcare for manufacture of ventilators, while Krishna Maruti Limited will make masks
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News Reports

Coronavirus Pandemic: Punjab-based manufacturer gets approval for indigenously designed Hazmat suits, raw material to be procured from India

OpIndia Staff -
The Hazmat Suit by JCT Mills has been approved and certified for production by SITRA (South India Textile Research Association)
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News Reports

CISF head constable at Mumbai airport and BSF officer in Madhya Pradesh test positive for Wuhan Coronavirus

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Fifty personnel of BSF and 14 personnel of CISF have been quarantined as they had come into contact of the Coronavirus infected personnel
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News Reports

At least 26,000 people from 24 villages home quarantined in Punjab after ‘super spreader’ came in contact with them

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Out of the total of 38 positive cases so far in Punjab, 28 are directly linked to one super spreader, Baldev Singh
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News Reports

Thousands of migrant workers gather in Kottayam, Kerala, to go back home amidst coronavirus outbreak. Watch video

OpIndia Staff -
Thousands of migrant workers have gathered at Kottayam, Kerala, wanting to go back home amidst coronavirus outbreak.
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News Reports

Spicejet pilot who did not fly international flight in March tests positive for Wuhan Coronavirus

OpIndia Staff -
The last domestic flight that the Spicejet pilot operated was on March 21 from Chennai to Delhi, and is in home quarantine after that
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News Reports

ISIS affiliated Pakistani terrorists plan terror attack in Delhi as India is ‘preoccupied with coronavirus outbreak’

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Two Pakistani terrorists, operating out of Shopian region in Kashmir, have reportedly left for national capital to carry out terror attack
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News Reports

UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath directs health officials to put 1 lac migrant workers who came to the State under quarantine for 14 days

OpIndia Staff -
Yogi Adityanath was quoted as saying, "No one in the state should remain hungry during the lockdown."
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News Reports

A female Shrimp seller in Wuhan may be Coronavirus ‘Patient Zero’

OpIndia Staff -
The Patient Zero was quarantined in late December last year and recovered completely by January 2020.
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News Reports

I apologize for taking these harsh steps, but these tough measures are needed to win this battle: PM Narendra Modi on Mann Ki Baat

OpIndia Staff -
On Mann ki Baat, Prime Minister Narendra Modi also expressed his gratitude to the "foot soldiers" fighting the battle against coronavirus.
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News Reports

FIR registered against AAP MLA Raghav Chadha for making false accusations against Uttar Pradesh government

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Following the misleading claims made by Raghav Chadha, the Uttar Pradesh government had decided to take action against him for spreading fake news of UP government harassing migrant workers.
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News Reports

Coronavirus: 50-year-old COVID19 positive man travels by two trains, prays at 2 mosques, attends wedding, infects four others

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On Friday, a 50-year-old man who hailed from Khurja in Bulandshahr district in Uttar Pradesh was diagnosed with the deadly Wuhan Coronavirus.
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Editor's picks

Coronavirus is not natural but invented in a laboratory by Israel, US and UK: Former Pakistan Foreign Minister comes up with a bizarre conspiracy...

OpIndia Staff -
A Former Foreign Minister of parody nation Pakistan has now come up with some wild conspiracy theories accusing the US of 'inventing' the virus in lab and giving a clean chit to China which has actually perpetrated the virus on all of humanity.
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News Reports

Coronavirus: Confirmed cases in Pakistan cross 1500, some blame Shias as pilgrims returning from Iran were among first cases

OpIndia Staff -
As per Pakistani media, the initial cases were pilgrims from Iran, especially those who returned after crossing the border at Taftan.
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News Reports

Midnight announcements, false promises: Watch how Arvind Kejriwal-led Delhi government played with lives of millions amidst coronavirus outbreak

OpIndia Staff -
In a video shared by BJP leader Kapil Mishra, one can see announcements being made in colonies where UP-Bihar migrants are staying in Delhi informing them that Delhi government-run DTC buses will take them to the Anand Vihar bus terminal.
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Opinions

People of Maharashtra are suffering for a mistake they didn’t make and will continue to suffer if Uddhav Thackeray govt lets the Coronavirus spread

Shweta Shalini -
The failure of Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray as a decision-maker and a leader in the Covid-19 war
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News Reports

Mannargudi Jeeyar Swami – a Hindu Acharya feeds homeless people during the COVID-19 lockdown

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Mannargudi Jeeyar Swami gets food cooked at Matham's premise in Srirangam and uses his personal vehicle to travel and distribute food.
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News Reports

Despite zero positive Coronavirus cases so far, Assam steps up efforts to combat the global pandemic on a war footing

OpIndia Staff -
Health authorities in Assam led by CM health minister Himanta B Sarma have dramatically raised the efforts in this regard in the last week
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News Reports

The Atlantic publishes distorted Indian flag in a report, denigrates India’s efforts to tackle the COVID-19 outbreak

OpIndia Staff -
The article by Vidya Krishnan and published in 'The Atlantic' distorted the Indian flag by replacing Ashok Chakra with coronavirus
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News Reports

Union government exempts agriculture and allied activities from the Coronavirus Lockdown to ensure harvesting of crops

OpIndia Staff -
Govt has brought agriculture and allied activities under the exempted category in order to maintain the availability of grains in the market
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News Reports

UP govt to take action against AAP MLA Raghav Chadha for spreading fake news that UP CM had got migrant workers returning to UP...

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Responding to reports that AAP govt dropped migrant workers at UP border lying that UP buses were waiting for them, Raghav Chadha said a lie
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Media

After John Hopkins University, Princeton University distances itself from report painting grim picture of India amidst Coronavirus outbreak

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The report from which Princeton University has distanced itself claimed that the ongoing 21-day lockdown will not be able to contain spread of Coronavirus
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News Reports

110 people sent to isolation fearing community transmission due to carelessness of two hospitals handling Bihar’s first Covid-19 patient

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2 staff of pvt hospital met 130 people before they tested Covid-19 positive, AIIMS staff handed the body of Covid-19 patient to family
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News Reports

After Reliance, Mahindra and Vedanta, Tata group steps in​: Commits to contribute Rs 500 cr to fight Wuhan Coronavirus pandemic

Jhankar Mohta -
Many business tycoons including Ratan Tata have been coming forward pledging their support amidst the unprecedented Coronavirus outbreak
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News Reports

Manufactured crisis? Delhi govt cut electricity and water supply of migrant workers​, told them buses were waiting for them at UP border

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Essentially, it seems like the Delhi government manufactured a crisis and forced migrant workers to flock to the UP border amidst Coronavirus lockdown
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News Reports

PM Narendra Modi launches “Prime Minister’s Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations Fund” to receive public donations for fight against Covid-19

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This fund will enable micro-donations and large number of people will be able to contribute with smallest of denominations
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News Reports

Coronavirus scare: Punjab Government fails to trace 1330 out of 55,000 NRIs who returned to the state after 30th January

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Coronavirus: Congress-ruled Punjab Government has failed to trace 1330 out of 55,000 NRIs who returned to the State from foreign countries after the 30th of January
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh police arrests cleric for inviting Muslims to attend Namaz at Mosque amidst Coronavirus lockdown

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Uttar Pradesh police arrested a Muslim cleric for urging people to gather to offer Friday Namaz at the mosque during Coronavirus lockdown
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News Reports

Punjab CM, who had passed resolution against CAA, requests MEA to fly Sikh families out of Afghanistan after ISIS attack against Kabul Gurudwara

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Armed Islamic terrorists had attacked a Gurudwara Kabul in Afghanistan on 27 March killing 28 people and left hundreds injured
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News Reports

Journalist behind The Wire and National Herald fake news claiming Varanasi Dalits forced to eat grass during lockdown served legal notice for misinformation

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The notice says the children were eating 'akhri daal', a kind of wild pulse and it is perfectly edible.
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News Reports

Tamil Nadu Cop dons ‘Coronavirus helmet’ to encourage people to stay at home amidst lockdown

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According to the Police personnel, the Coronavirus helmet has been useful in raising awareness.
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News Reports

Meet Minal Dakhave Bhosale: The woman behind India’s first coronavirus testing kit which delivers results in less than half the time as compared to...

OpIndia Staff -
The made-in-India coronavirus testing kit will cost Rs 1200, about a quarter of the Rs 4500 that imported testing kits cost
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Media

Undeserved media praise for ‘secular’ Chief Ministers makes us less safe amidst the Wuhan Coronavirus pandemic, not more

Abhishek Banerjee -
India is in crisis. The number of people who have tested positive for the Wuhan Coronavirus is now disturbingly close to the 1000 mark.
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News Reports

While New York claps for its first responders, doctors, and nurses, the medical workers decry abysmal lack of Coronavirus protection

OpIndia Staff -
New York City claps and cheers for its medical staff while the health workers facing shortage of protective equipment alleging the reason of death of a medical staff.
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News Reports

Hyderabad University professor designs potential vaccine candidate against Novel Coronavirus

OpIndia Staff -
A potential vaccine against all the structural and non-structural proteins of novel coronavirus is under experimental testing.
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MHA issues advisory urging states, UTs to provide food, shelter to migrant labourers to stop mass exodus amid coronavirus lockdown

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MHA has asked state/UTs to prevent a mass exodus of migrant workers to their hometowns so that they don't potentially spread the coronavirus
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From Ventilators, N99 masks to bodysuits, DRDO steps us its fight against the Wuhan Coronavirus: Here are the details

OpIndia Staff -
Besides protective masks, DRDO has also developed a bodysuit for doctors and other medical staff to protect them from Coronavirus infection.
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Government and Policy

Coronavirus outbreak: Centre asks states to put a 3-month moratorium on electricity bill payments amidst total lockdown

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Central Government has issued a notice to all the state governments, asking them to put a 3-month deferment on electricity bill payments.
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News Reports

Media used a ‘not a doctor’ to fear monger about Lockdown, now furthers a contradictory report by him as that by John Hopkins University

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A report by IANS says that CDDEP and John Hopkins University prepared a report arguing against Coronavirus Lockdown, but JHU has denied involvement in it
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News Reports

Sri Lanka returned man ‘mentally disturned’ about being on home quarantine runs out of house naked, bites old woman to death

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34-year-old man quarantined to arrest spread of Coronavirus ran out naked from his house and killed a 90-year-old woman by biting her throat
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News Reports

Indian Railways converts train coaches into ‘Isolation Wards’ to shore up country’s fight against Wuhan Coronavirus pandemic

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Indian Railway has decided to convert its coaches into quarantine wards for the treatment of Coronavirus patients.
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Over 300 dead in Iran because of fake news claiming a ​novel cure for Coronavirus: Here are the details

OpIndia Staff -
Earlier this month, 44 people in Iran had died due to consumption of bootleg alcohol under the belief that it can cure coronavirus infection.
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News Reports

After Spain and Czech Republic, now Turkey discards faulty Chinese Coronavirus testing kits over inaccurate results

OpIndia Staff -
Turkish government has discarded Chinese-made coronavirus rapid testing kits after finding out that they gave inaccurate results.
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Kerala man commits suicide after failing to get alcohol during the nation-wide coronavirus lockdown

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Sanoj, a native of Thuvanoor in Kunnamkulam, had turned violent on Thursday night as he could not get alcohol
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News Reports

Kerala Congress leader diagnosed with Wuhan Coronavirus had escaped quarantine, could be a ‘Super Spreader’

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Idukki Collector H Dhineshan, has now directed people who have come in contact with the Congress leader tested positive for Coronavirus to self-quarantine at home.
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News Reports

The Quint transforms an engineer to a doctor, peddles fake news saying India is already in the middle of community transmission of Coronavirus

OpIndia Staff -
Dr Girdhar Gyani is not even a 'doctor' as claimed by 'journalist' Poonam Agarwal of the Quint. He is an Engineer with a PhD degree.
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News Reports

Italy: 101-year-old man born during the Spanish Flu pandemic now recovers from the Wuhan​ Coronavirus

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An Italian man, aged 101, identified as Mr P has successfully recovered after being diagnosed with the deadly Wuhan Coronavirus in the city of Rimini in Italy
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News Reports

Ramayana in the digital​ age: The first​ episode crashes Doordarshan website, top searched in India on Google

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As the first episode of Ramayan went live, Ramanand Sagar's Ramayana on Doordarshan become the top search on Google in India
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News Reports

On 45th anniversary of Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention coming into force, India invokes the Wuhan Coronavirus, calls for strengthening WHO

OpIndia Staff -
The Biological Weapons Convention came into effect in 1975 and 183 countries are parties to it. The convention calls for prohibition to development, production and stockpiling of biological and toxin weapons.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Suspected COVID-19 patient flees from isolation ward, police in search

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Vineet was kept in isolation after he had come in contact of a Dubai returned friend who tested positive for Coronavirus
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