7 days institutional quarantine must for all UK returnees: Delhi airport
New Delhi/IBNS: The Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi on Friday tweeted a clarification which necessitates seven days of compulsory institutional quarantine for all passengers returning from the United Kingdom.
Assam reduces home quarantine period to 7 days, state's Covid-19 tally now 29,921
Guwahati/IBNS: The Assam government has decided to reduce the home quarantine period for Covid-19 patients from 14 days to 7 days.
Kolkata/IBNS: A man with normal body temperature and no other Covid-19 symptom has been institutionally quarantined in Kolkata after he reportedly showed his Coronavirus positive report after arriving at the city international airport on Tuesday, airport officials said on Thursday.
Jharkhand: Girl dies in home quarantine in Khunti
Khunti/UNI: In what may turn out to be a case of death caused due to Covid-19, a girl who was kept in home quarantine in Marcha village under Rania block of this district has passed away.
Nepali origin woman booked for jumping quarantine in Himachal Pradesh
Shimla/UNI: A Nepali origin woman was on Sunday booked for jumping coronavirus quarantine at Kasumpti on outskirts of the Himachal Pradesh capital.
Assam: DC, SP, scribes sent to quarantine after came into contact with COVID-19 patient
Guwahati/IBNS: Two top government officials and some journalists of Assam’s Morigaon district were sent to quarantine after they reportedly came into contact with a COVID-19 positive patient.
Police arrest AIUDF MLA for remarks calling COVID-19 quarantine centre worst than detention camp
Guwahati/IBNS: Police have arrested an opposition MLA in Assam for making objectionable remarks about the conditions of quarantine facilities and calling it worst than detention camps.
Assam man wishes to donate 10 bigha land to government to build a COVID-19 hospital
Guwahati/IBNS: At a time when India along with the rest of the world is fighting against the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) and over 30,000 people have already lost their lives, a man from Assam has wished to donate his lands to the government to build a COVID-19 treatment hospital.
Wrong to say Kolkata recorded its first COVID 19 case: Mamata BanerjeeÂ
Kolkata/IBNS: A day after a youth was tested positive for COVID 19 in Kolkata, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday raised doubts and said it is wrong to say that the city reported its first coronavirus case.