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India kicks off op to fly back citizens, 363 evacuees from UAE land in Kerala

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COURTESY BY: https://www.hindustantimes.com/ Thirty nine pregnant women were among the 363 people who returned to India from the United Arab Emirates on Thursday night via two Air India Express flights that formed the first leg of a massive repatriation programme involving 12 countries and 15,000 passengers. The first flight of the ‘Mission ‘Vande Bharat’ carrying 181 people from Abu Dhabi landed in Kochi around 10pm on Thursday. The second flight with 182 passengers from Dubai landed in Kozhikkode roughly 20 minutes later. As the passengers – many of them aged, disabled or…

UK to pilot coronavirus contact tracing smartphone app

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After the pilot of the “test, track and trace procedures” on the island, the app is expected to be made more widely available to the British public later this month.(AP file photo) COURTESY BY: https://www.hindustantimes.com/ The UK government on Monday announced that after hitting its testing target for coronavirus of over 100,000 tests daily, it will now be moving into the track and trace phase of its fight against the deadly virus, which has claimed 28,734 lives across hospitals and the wider community in the country. UK Health Secretary Matt…

Delhi slaps ‘special corona fee’ on alcohol as Covid-19 cases near 5,000 mark

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People stand in a queue to buy alcohol after authorities allowed opening of wines shops with certain restrictions during ongoing Covid-19 nationwide lockdown at Krishna Nagar in East Delhi. (PTI Photo) COURTESY BY: https://www.hindustantimes.com/ Delhi registered another big spike of 349 new cases of Covid-19 that took the national capital’s tally to 4,898, the health department said in a statement Monday night. There are 3,403 active cases while 1,431 people have recovered from Covid-19. There was no casualty in the last 24 hours which remained at 64. Late Monday night,…

Iran says US push to extend Tehran’s arms embargo is ‘illegitimate’

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President Donald Trump’s administration has been taking a harder line with the United Nations over its desire to extend and strengthen the embargo on Iran.(REUTERS) COURTESY BY: https://www.hindustantimes.com/ Iran dismissed as “illegitimate” efforts by the United States to extend the U.N. Security Council arms embargo on Tehran, an Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Monday. “Iran is not seeking to exit the 2015 nuclear deal with six powers … America’s move is illegitimate and our reaction will be proportionate,” Abbas Mousavi said in a televised weekly news conference. The United…

EU warns against suspension of children vaccination amid Covid-19 pandemic

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Andrea Ammon, director European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control warned that some countries in Europe have suspended all vaccinations during the epidemic.(Reuters file photo. Representative image) COURTESY BY: https://www.hindustantimes.com/ The European Union warned on Monday that decisions by some European countries to suspend vaccination of children during the coronavirus epidemic could cause serious problems. “It is very clear we will get pockets of people, children, who have not been vaccinated,” Andrea Ammon, director of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), told EU lawmakers. She said most…

US has very ‘conclusive’ report on Covid-19’s China origins, says Trump

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U.S. President Donald Trump listens during a Fox News town hall at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Sunday, May 3, 2020. (Bloomberg) COURTESY BY: https://www.hindustantimes.com/ President Donald Trump promised a “conclusive” report from the U.S. government on the Chinese origins of the coronavirus outbreak, adding that he has little doubt that Beijing misled the world about the scale and risk of the disease before it became a global pandemic. “We will be giving a very strong report on what we think happened, and I think it will…

Covid-19: Italy begins to emerge from world’s longest nationwide lockdown

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People wearing face masks cross Ponte Milvio bridge, as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in Rome, Italy, May 1, 2020. (REUTERS) COURTESY BY: https://www.hindustantimes.com/ Stir-crazy Italians will be free to stroll and visit relatives for the first time in nine weeks on Monday as Europe’s hardest-hit country eases back the world’s longest nationwide coronavirus lockdown. Four million people — an estimated 72 percent of them men — will return to their construction sites and factories as the economically and emotionally shattered country tries to get back to…

‘Extend Covid-19 emergency benefits to international students’: An appeal to Canadian PM

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The Canada Emergency Student Benefits programme or CESB, announced by Trudeau last month, is targeted at Canadian students.(Bloomberg) COURTESY BY: https://www.hindustantimes.com/ A leading Indo-Canadian organisation has written to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, appealing to him to extend emergency benefits announced during the Covid-19 pandemic to international students, including nearly 200000 from India. Students from India comprise the largest contingent from abroad in Canada, with over 2 lakh from among the nearly 6.5 lakh. However, a large number of them have been stranded in Canada after restrictive measures were announced…

Japanese PM to consult with experts to extend state of emergency till May 31: Report

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The current state of emergency is set to expire on Wednesday, the last day of a week-long national holiday.(AP file photo ) COURTESY BY: https://www.hindustantimes.com/ Japan’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe, will consult with experts at a meeting on Monday to extend the national state of emergency until May 31, broadcaster NHK reported on Sunday. The government will also discuss further action on how to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus epidemic that has infected 15,589 people and killed 530 in the country. Japan is expected to declare the extension…

UK doctor alerts Indians to poor diet link with Covid-19 deaths

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Meals being distributed to the people in need at a food distribution, in Gazipur Govt School, during lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus, in New Delhi. (Raj K Raj/HT PHOTO) COURTESY BY: https://www.hindustantimes.com/ Poor diet is a major cause behind the Covid-19 deaths and the Indians must urgently cut down on ultra-processed food to build resilience against the deadly virus, a leading Indian-origin cardiologist in the UK has cautioned. Dr Aseem Malhotra, who is among the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) frontline medics and also a professor of evidence…