Covid-19

Iran has emerged as the epicentre of the COVID-19 pandemic in West Asia, with more than 12,700 confirmed infections and over 600 deaths, including several senior government officials testing positive.

As per a report in Times Now, the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation and the local police have swung into action and have launched a search operation for the 11 persons.

On Sunday, nearly 190 new cases of coronavirus were reported in Malaysia, most linked to Tablighi Ijtema, an Islamic evangelical event at a mosque that was attended by more than 16,000 people from several countries.

Dr Zafar Mirza who represented Pakistan at the SAARC video-conference on COVID-19 on Sunday is being probed for his involvement in the smuggling 20 million face masks out of Pakistan

The country has enough testing capacities for Covid-19 as only 10% of the total capacity has been utilised per day so far

Australian prime minister Scott Morrison informed that PM Modi is keen to organise a link up between all the G20 leaders on Covid-19 outbreak

Wazirganj police nabbed Ahmed Siddiqui for extorting money from people under the pretext of curing coronavirus by selling tabiz

The Muslim youths objected to carrying out any medical test for Coronavirus citing that Islam does not permit such tests.

TOI reported that Bengaluru techie tested covid-19 positive on 7th, but result came on 12th, & wife had left on 8th from airport itself

Taking to Twitter, Congress leader vented her frustration out by sharing news that Australian Home Minister was tested positive for the Coronavirus and lamented that India was still lagging at it. The Congress leader indirectly hoped that Home Minister soon be affected with the coronavirus similar to his Australian counterpart.