Новости за 31.07.2020

Two people were killed and three injured after a portion of a multi-storey building collapsed in Uttar Pradesh's Noida on Friday, police said.

Even as surge in Covid-19 cases and deaths continue, Dakshina Kannada district administration plans to rope in school and college teachers for an aggressive health surveillance programme to be launched exclusively for vulnerable persons in the district.

The Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president DK Shivakumar on Friday said the party is ready to produce all documents related to the corruption in Covid-19 purchases by BS Yediyurappa government if a judicial probe led by a sitting judge is initiated.

Noida Traffic Police has deployed six women traffic constables on the field for the first time

A 105-year-old woman from Afghanistan was discharged from a hospital in Greater Noida on Friday after recovering from Covid-19 in a fortnight, officials said.

The Covid-19 caseload in Odisha crossed the 31,000-mark on Friday with 1,499 fresh cases, while eight more deaths were reported, pushing the toll to 177, a health department official said.

A 26-year-old Indian “con artist” in the US state of Texas has been sentenced to 12 months and a day in prison for defrauding several foreign citizens living in America of over USD 160,000 by falsely claiming to be a film producer, according to the Department of Justice.

As doctors in Surat city are prescribing Tocilizumab injections as 'as lifesaving' drug and people are desperate to buy it at any cost, Covid-19 expert and Nodal officer (Covid-19 Hospital) at Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) run SMIMER Hospital Dr. Naimesh Shah said that if Tocilizumab is given without genuine need, it would more harm than good. There are many myths and facts about 'life saving' drugs in Covid-19 treatment. Excerpts of the interview of Dr. Naimesh Shah.