Karishma Mehrotra

The group also includes Department of Telecommunications Secretary Anshu Prakash, ICMR Additional Director General GS Toteja, and Cabinet Secretariat Joint Secretary Bharat Khera.

Although COVID-19 cases have grown faster over the last one week, the transmission rate in India is lower than elsewhere, experts note. A comparison of growth in cases, deaths between India and other countries.

From West Bengal which restricts information to health staff to states that make public lists of those in quarantine .

With trains and flights out of question, drone manufacturer Garuda Aerospace is sending eight drones and eight drone pilots by road from Chennai to Raipur on Saturday.

In a guidance to build such “well-equipped dedicated health facilities (DHF)”, the ICMR focuses on building new bio-security wards, or creating makeshift facilities in tertiary healthcare facilities.

From government data center operations to Silicon Valley companies, measures are in place to adjust to the changing landscape.

A new ICMR paper’s hypothetical model finds quarantining 50% of symptomatic cases within 3 days of symptoms would reduce overall cases by 62% and peak number of cases by 89% in an optimistic scenario. In a pessimistic scenario, these numbers would be 2% and 8% respectively.

Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has told the Mumbai Police to track movements of those quarantined using phone GPS location.

Early research from Italy and China suggests that COVID-19 patients who died those countries were more likely to have had pre-existing health conditions, namely diabetes, chronic kidney disease, and cardiovascular diseases.

The ICMR had picked 1,020 random samples of people with severe acute respiratory illness pneumonia and influenza-like symptoms for testing for Covid-19.

63-yr-old dies in Mumbai; ICMR says in talks with 51 private labs

ICMR on coronavirus testing: India has conducted roughly 6,000 tests so far, lower than the US (8,000), Japan (9,600), France (12,000), the UK (13,000), and Italy (23,000). South Korea has conducted as many as 2 lakh, which experts see as the reason for their significantly declining numbers.

ICMR senior scientist Nivedita Gupta said, "Right now our inclusion criteria is only symptomatic travelers and symptomatic contacts of lab-confirmed infected."

On Friday, the DoT relaxed the rules for “Other Service Providers” (OSPs) to create “Work from Home” facilities without requiring prior permission. OSPs are defined as tele-banking, tele-medicene, tele-trading, e-commerce, and other non-telecom services.

With public gatherings restricted worldwide, the question is how such moves affect COVID-2019 trends. A look at how the outbreak curve shapes, with or without social distancing, and why a flatter curve helps

Amit Shah told Lok Sabha on Wednesday that the authorities used facial recognition from Voter ID cards, driver licences, and other databases to identify that 300 people involved in the Delhi riots came from Uttar Pradesh.

This is not the first time that a global outbreak has been accompanied by misinformed claims on social media.

NTRO, established in 2004, is housed under the National Security Advisor in the Prime Minister's Office and focuses on intelligence gathering.

The issue was discussed in a meeting held by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Tuesday in which social media firms came under severe criticism.