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Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said on Wednesday that around 64,000 people have arrived from other countries in India since March 21, out of which about 8,000 have been placed in various quarantine facilities and the remaining 56,000 are in home isolation.....

Mass testing has been carried out in the Vatican after a priest living at the Popes residence tested positive for the novel coronavirus.....

There were 216 foreign nationals among 1,746 people lodged at the Tablighi Jamaat's Nizamuddin Markaz facility as on March 21, a day before Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced 'Janata curfew' across India to contain Covid-19 spread.....

Identification of foreign returnees in Andhra Pradesh has become a big challenge while many districts in Jammu and Kashmir, Bihar, Arunachal Pradesh, Haryana, Maharashtra and Chattisgarh lack personal protective equipment (PPE)and medical facilities. These revelations came in a survey, COVID-19 National Preparedness Survey 2020 - carried out by the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances. ....

Soon after former India cricketer and BJP MP Gautam Gambhir pledged to donate Rs 1 crore to the Delhi government for cornavirus fight, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday said the availability of PPE kits and not money was the issue, as he urged the MP to help in getting these kits.....

As the coronavirus crisis erodes stock markets and share values, Reliance Industries' Chairman Mukesh Ambani's wealth has declined by $19 billion (Rs 1.33 lakh crore) or 28 per cent, according to a report by Hurun Research.....

As thousands of nurses across the country light the lamps of hope in the hospitals, several leading ladies play a vital role in India's war room to contain the spread of dreaded pandemic.....

Akshay Kumar has donated Rs 3 crore to Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) for the manufacture of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), masks, and rapid testing kits, in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.....

In a bloody clash in Punjab, an Assistant Sub-Inspector's (ASI) hand was chopped off and three others got grievous injuries on Sunday when a group of Nihang Sikhs attacked them in Patiala town on being asked about curfew permission, police said. ....

The Indian currency continued to tumble on Thursday as it touched a fresh all-time low of 76.82 per dollar.....