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COVID-19 recovery: Govt issues new guidelines for discharging patients; check details

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has come up with some revised guidelines for discharging patients from healthcare facilities.




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COVID-19: Legislation introduced in Congress to give Green Card to 40,000 foreign nurses, doctors

The American Hospital Association (AHA) and the American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL) said there has never been a more urgent need for the care that foreign-born physicians and foreign-trained nurses provide than during the current COVID-19 pandemic.




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Only severe COVID-19 patients to be tested before discharge: Union health ministry

At the time of discharge, patient will be advised to follow home isolation for further seen days as per the prescribed guidelines.




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5-year-old boy dies from rare inflammatory illness linked to COVID-19 in US

Michael Gewitz, Physician-in-Chief of Maria Fareri Children's Hospital, where the boy passed away, said the child suffered "serious neurological complications" from the pediatric multi-symptom inflammatory syndrome.




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Covid-19: Armed Forces set up quarantine facilities for those returning from overseas

The Indian Navy has also set up a facility at Visakhapatnam, which too can take in 200 people with all the facilities available inside.




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Thane BJP corporators refuse to contribute to COVID-19 fund

In a letter to the Mayor, BJP leader Sanjay Waghule alleged that there was no transparency in the civic body's COVID-19 relief activities.




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‘Disciplined’ northeast emerges as model of COVID-19 management: Jitendra Singh

He said within six years of the Modi government, the northeastern region has emerged as the model for development for the entire country.




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Good news on Coronavirus medicine! Study finds this antiviral drug combo promising against COVID-19

The researchers believe that a future phase 3 trial will confirm or refute the usefulness of this candidate drug as a backbone treatment for COVID-19.




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EPF withdrawal for COVID-19 online: Have Rs 2,00,000 in PF account? Check how much you can get

PF Advance Withdrawal for COVID-19: Are you running out of cash amid Coornavirus crisis and want to withdraw from Provident Fund account?




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COVID-19: Indian-origin woman faces charges for refusing to wear face mask in Singapore

The mall staff informed the police and when the officers requested to see her identity, she allegedly started peeling off the address sticker on her identity card.




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Coronavirus in Rajasthan: 76 fresh cases in state; total COVID-19 count reaches 3,655

Jaipur is the worst-hit Rajasthan district with a total of 1,165 case, including 54 deaths.




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COVID-19 lockdown: Delayed academic plans and uncertainty-anxiety grips CBSE class 12 students

The COVID-19 lockdown, came with a different set of concerns for class 12 students, whose board exams were postponed midway following the outbreak of coronavirus, putting on hold their future plans as well.




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‘Confusion’ within central government in fight against COVID-19: Congress

The Congress on Saturday said there was "confusion" within the central government in its fight against the novel coronavirus and wondered how would India tackle the pandemic if officials continued to speak in different voices.




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Testing capacity for COVID-19 scaled up to 95,000 per day, says Health Minister Harsh Vardhan

The testing capacity for COVID-19 has been scaled up to around 95,000 tests per day and a total of 15,25,631 tests have been conducted so far across 332 government and 121 private laboratories, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said on Saturday.




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ICMR teams up with Bharat Biotech to develop COVID-19 vaccine

The death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 1,981 and the number of cases climbed to 59,662 in the country on Saturday, the Health Ministry said.




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Free COVID-19 Threat List - Domain Risk Assessments for Coronavirus Threats

DomainTools is providing a free, curated list of high-risk COVID-19-related domains to support the community during the Coronavirus crisis. The list will be updated daily and available for CSV download.




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Saskatchewan Conducts Final Entrepreneur Stream Immigration Draw of 2019

The immigration authorities of Saskatchewan conducted a final draw of 2019 in the Entrepreneur stream on December 5.Making a Gradual ProcessIn the Saskatchewan Immigrant Nominee Program 62 were invitations issued for immigration where the Candidates…




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Canada Holds 132nd Express Entry Draw and Crosses 82,000 Invites in 2019

Canada conducted its new draw in the Express Entry, and issued 3,200 Invitations to Apply to the candidates on December 11th.  In it the least Comprehensive Ranking System score was 472, which is one point increase comparing to the 131st Express…




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A Record Number of Immigrants Reach Nova Scotia in 2019

Nova Scotia achieved a record immigration level in 2019 and made tremendous efforts to attract workers in specified sectors.Impressive StatisticsThe Immigration Office approved 2,780 applications till Dec. 27, which is 21 percent more than in 2018. Lena…




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Performance of Canada's Express Entry system in 2019

There were several twists and turns in the Express Entry system of Canada for the candidates and the observers in 2019.  Canada issued 85,300 invitations to apply for permanent residence issued.Interesting FeaturesThis was the record top second,…




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Ontario has Issued 7,391 Immigration Nominations in 2019

In 2019, Ontario has issued 7,391 nominations in its Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program as per an announcement. OINP had an initial allocation target standing 6,650, and in December 700 places were offered to it by IRCC. It included 41 nominations in…




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All About Justice S Muralidhar Who Said "Can't Let Another 1984 Happen"

Hours before his transfer order on Wednesday, which the government says was routine after the Supreme Court collegium's recommendation on February 12, Justice S Muralidhar had said: "We cannot let...







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Indian Union Budget 2018-19 Announced

Indian Union Budget 2018-19 Announced by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley




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Huge Delays in COVID-19 Test Results

[GroundUp] Doctors express concern that results are so late they are not clinically useful




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Fidentia Pension Fund Fraudster J Arthur Brown Part of Special COVID-19 Parole

[Daily Maverick] Pension fund fraudster, J Arthur Brown, is one of around 19,000 low-risk prison inmates set to be released as part of President Cyril Ramaphosa's Special Covid-19 parole dispensation.




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Taxi Driver Evading COVID-19 Isolation Caught in Beaufort West Transporting Passengers

[SAPS] A 35-year-old taxi driver is facing attempted murder charges (read with DMA Regulation 14(3) and in a quarantine site in Cape Town after he was stopped in a vehicle checkpoint (VCP) on the R61 in Beaufort West yesterday ferrying about seven passengers. The driver, who had apparently tested positive for the virus after taking a test on 30 April 2020 on the N2 Tsitsikamma roadblock in the Eastern Cape, was duly informed two days ago by the testing authority of the outcome of the test. Yet, he allegedly proce




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COVID-19 - Government Starts Large Prisoner Release

[GroundUp] Ronald Lamola, Minister of Justice and Correctional Services, said about 19,000 low-risk offenders may qualify to be released from prisons across the country, which will decrease the prison population by about 12%, reducing overcrowding.




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Eastern Cape MEC for Health Alarmed As Taxis Bring 80 COVID-19-Positive Farmworkers Home From the Western Cape

[Daily Maverick] The Eastern Cape Department of Health has confirmed that 80 of a group of 188 seasonal farmworkers who returned to the province from the Western Cape over the past two weeks have tested positive for coronavirus. The taxis were 'intercepted' on the province's back roads near Elliotdale. Some drivers were allegedly in possession of fake permits. The positive test results come as nearly 10,000 people returned home during the window period allowed for interprovincial travel.




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Unpaid Pension Benefits - the Billions That Could Help Millions Face COVID-19 Fallout

[Daily Maverick] In the context of a strained fiscus and a dysfunctional social security agency - freeing up private assets that are owed to poor and vulnerable individuals could also go a long way to supporting the increase in social welfare grants. It is in this context that the roughly R43-billion owed to just under 5 million people, many of them grant beneficiaries, should be viewed.




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Govt's COVID-19 Science Mask Is Slipping

[New Frame] The government's professed reliance on science to justify its response to the pandemic reveals both its overconfidence and its insecurities about getting citizens to cooperate.




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Only Petty Criminals Will Be Released to Combat Spread of COVID-19 in Prisons - Lamola

[News24Wire] Only offenders who committed petty crimes will be eligible to be included in the 19 000 inmates who will be released on parole to combat the spread of Covid-19 in prisons.




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South Africa Steps Up to Help Madagascar Test Herbal Cure for COVID-19

[RFI] South Africa's government will assist the authorities in Madagascar to test and analyse an unproven herbal treatment for Covid-19, according to health minister Zweli Mkhize. Madagascar's President Andry Rajoelina is promoting a tea infusion based on the artemisia plant, praising its benefits in treating the coronavirus.




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COVID-19 - These Are the Inmates Who Will Not Be Eligible for Special Parole

[News24Wire] While at least 19 000 inmates inside South Africa's prisons will be eligible for special parole to curb the spread of Covid-19, those sentenced for a range of serious crimes will not make the cut.




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German Covid-19 cases 'may be 10 times higher than official figures'

Researchers highlight risk of asymptomatic infection, as Europe begins easing lockdown

More than 10 times as many people in Germany as thought may have been infected with coronavirus, researchers have said, as Italy led swathes of Europe out of lockdown and officials said the continent’s outbreak was mostly past its peak.

Researchers from Bonn University said on Monday that their preliminary study, based on fieldwork in the town of Gangelt in Heinsberg municipality, which had one of Germany’s highest death tolls, showed the risk of infection by asymptomatic carriers.

Coronavirus has infected more than 3.5 million people and caused nearly 250,000 deaths worldwide, according to the Johns Hopkins University tracker.

China’s state broadcaster CCTV attacked the US secretary of state’s “insane and evasive remarks” on the origins of the pandemic. Mike Pompeo said there was “enormous evidence” to show the virus originated in a lab in China.

As Donald Trump presses states to reopen their economies, his administration is privately projecting daily deaths will almost double to about 3,000 by 1 June, according to an internal document seen by the New York Times.

Japan’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe, extended the country’s national state of emergency to 31 May, adding that he would consider lifting it earlier if experts decided that was possible based on regional infection trends.

World leaders, with the exception of Trump, stumped up nearly €7.4bn (£6.5bn) to research Covid-19 vaccines and therapies, pledging the money would also be used to distribute any vaccine to poor countries on time and equitably.

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Exodus from Kiev: aftermath of Chernobyl nuclear accident - archive, 5 May 1986

5 May 1986: Moscow has seen many Russians arriving by train from Kiev in the disaster area

Moscow
The first real signs of alarm among the Soviet public began to emerge over the weekend as Russians arriving by train from Kiev in the Chernobyl disaster area, began saying frankly that they were worried by radiation.

In the last two days large numbers of unescorted children have been arriving here from the city by train, to be met by relatives and grandparents.

Related: From the archive, 30 April 1986: Russia admits blast as death fears rise

Related: Revisiting Chernobyl: 'It is a huge cemetery of dreams'

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'Painful to see': rise in Russian medics falling prey to Covid-19 as death toll questioned

Lack of PPE cited as reason for mass infections – with suspicions deaths are not recorded

For weeks, paramedic Dmitry Seryogin had warned about the lack of coronavirus testing and inadequate protective gear that he and his colleagues were given in the city of Oryol, about a four-hour drive south of Moscow. If a patient did not explicitly warn they had coronavirus, he said, teams handled likely infections in simple masks and gloves.

Then, the inevitable happened. Two of his colleagues fell ill with coronavirus, then five more, and now, Seryogin says, more than a dozen have contracted the virus. The regional governor has confirmed an outbreak at a medical station, saying staff had been quarantined and he had “set the goal of providing everyone with PPE. No matter where they are going, what kind of call”.

Related: Concern as coronavirus threatens Russia's closed ‘nuclear cities’

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Under Boris Johnson, Putin and Trump the world has uncanny parallels to 1945

Russia on the offensive, Brexit Britain stands alone, and US disdain for European allies recalls its naivety with Stalin

Victory in Europe was made possible by a remarkable military collaboration between the main anti-Axis powers – the US, Russia and Britain. But the three-way relationship, between Franklin D Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill, was never easy, and it set a pattern of national rivalry, suspicion, fear and distrust that persists to this day.

A row over a top-secret message, known as SCAF-252, sent to Stalin in late March 1945 by Gen Dwight Eisenhower, the supreme allied commander, shows how fraught the relationship could be. In it, Eisenhower detailed his plans for the final defeat of Nazi Germany – but omitted to first consult or inform his British allies.

Related: VE Day: Churchill feared De Gaulle would declare victory early

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Covid-19 puts Putin's power plans on hold and economy in peril

Victory Day celebrations are cancelled and referendum to reset Putin’s term limits put on hold

If all had gone to plan, Vladimir Putin would have marked Victory Day in Red Square this weekend, hosting Emmanuel Macron and Xi Jinping as columns of soldiers and artillery passed by to honour the 75th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany.

The 9 May celebrations would have crowned a historic political season in Russia, including a symbolic referendum to amend Russia’s constitution and reset Putin’s term limits, allowing him to remain in the Kremlin until 2036.

Related: Global report: Russia becomes Europe's coronavirus hotspot

Related: 'Painful to see': rise in Russian medics falling prey to Covid-19 as death toll questioned

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[Women's Basketball] Women's Basketball Exhibition Game on 10/20/19 Cancelled




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Mick Jagger and Will Smith to perform in India Covid-19 concert

International and Indian celebrities to take part from home in fundraising event

Mick Jagger and Will Smith will be among dozens of international and Indian celebrities performing from their homes in a four-hour concert to raise funds for the battle against coronavirus in India, where the number of cases is surging.

The country’s cricket captain Virat Kohli, actors Priyanka Chopra and Shah Rukh Khan are some of the top domestic names billed to perform or read messages during the event on Sunday.

Related: Mobs stop Indian doctors' burials: 'Covid-19 took his life, why take his dignity?'

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India's Covid-19 app fuels worries over authoritarianism and surveillance

State-built Aarogya Setu has had record downloads but critics warn of civil liberties implications

Narendra Modi’s request was simple: to help combat the spread of coronavirus, people should download an Indian government-built smartphone app that helps identify their risk of catching and spreading the virus.

“As more and more people use it, its effectiveness will increase,” the prime minister said in a televised address last month.

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World leaders pledge €7.4bn to research Covid-19 vaccine

EU-hosted talks tout cooperation but is not addressed by India, Russia or US

World leaders, with the notable exception of Donald Trump, stumped up nearly €7.4bn (£6.5bn) to research Covid-19 vaccines and therapies at a virtual event convened by the EU, pledging the money will also be used to distribute any vaccine to poor countries on time and equitably.

But in a sign of the fractured state of global health diplomacy, the event was not addressed by India, Russia or the US. After a weekend of persuasion, China was represented by its ambassador to the EU.

UK data from the Office for National Statistics has revealed that men are almost twice as likely to die from the disease as women. The trend was first seen in China, where one analysis found a fatality rate of 2.8% in men compared with 1.7% in women. Since then, the pattern has been mirrored in France, Germany, Iran, South Korea and Italy, where men have accounted for 71% of deaths.

UK data from the Office for National Statistics has revealed that men are almost twice as likely to die from the disease as women. The trend was first seen in China, where one analysis found a fatality rate of 2.8% in men compared with 1.7% in women. Since then, the pattern has been mirrored in France, Germany, Iran, South Korea and Italy, where men have accounted for 71% of deaths.

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[Haskell Indians] Haskell Athletes Graduate at Fall 2019 Ceremony




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[Volleyball] Haskell Volleyball Splits Double Header on 10/02/19 &10/03/19

Haskell Volleyball faced Cottey College and Ottawa University this week with a win and a loss at home.  




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[Volleyball] Haskell Volleyball Travels for A.I.I. 2019 Volleyball Championships

Haskell women's volleyball will travel to Lincoln College today to participate in pool play Friday 11/15/19!




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[Volleyball] Two Haskell Volleyball Players Make A.I.I. 2019 Volleyball All-Tournament Team

Junior, Sophia Honahni and Senior, Cailey Lujan make the A.I.I. 2019 Volleyball All-Tournament Team from their performance this past weekend in pool play!




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COVID-19: Todos somos yanomamis

Este grupo indígena en Brasil ha experimentado tragedias y negligencia a lo largo de su historia. El impacto de la pandemia del coronavirus, potencialmente devastador, no debe ser pasado por alto.