Новости за 10.08.2020

In a move that will further bolster testing for Covid-19 among the general population, the state government has sanctioned 25,800 rapid antigen test kits to Dakshina Kannada district. Using these kits sanctioned earlier, 8,000-odd free Covid-19 tests have been conducted in government health facilities across the district out of which 600 people have tested positive.

Mangaluru MLA U T Khader has set up a helpline for people who are in distress due to heavy rain and floods.

Director General of Assam Police Bhaskar Jyoti Mahanta tested positive for Covid-19 on Monday, officials said.

A 38-year-old married woman died in her apartment in Uttar Pradesh's Greater Noida allegedly after consuming toilet cleaner, police said on Monday.

At least two persons were killed and three others injured on Monday in a major fire that gutted some shops, houses and godowns on the busy AT Road in Jorhat city, officials said.

The search operation of four people, who went missing after the landslide at Talacauvery in Kodagu district of Karnataka, is underway, said Annies KanmJoy, the deputy commissioner of Kodagu on Monday.

Any air traveller to Assam who will depart from the state within 72 hours of his arrival will not have to undergo quarantine provided his Rapid Antigen Test (RAT) result at the airport is negative, an order issued by the state government said on Monday.

Khurda has emerged as the number one district in the state in terms of active Covid cases.

Three dilapidated houses in the old city of Vadodara collapsed due to heavy overnight rains. Five persons, of whom one was injured, were rescued from two houses.

The issue of 267 saroops of Guru Granth Sahib that went missing from Gurdwara Ramsar Sahib took an entirely new turn on Sunday as Akal Takht acting Jathedar Giani Harpreet Singh claimed that the entire confusion has been caused by irregularities in the maintenance of records.

The medical education and research department has set up four new Covid viral testing laboratories to enhance daily testing capacity of 4,000 tests with 1,000 more tests per day per lab in the state.

The driver of a UPSRTC bus died while nearly 30 passengers suffered injuries after a bus rammed into a truck in Unnao district on the Kanpur-Lucknow highway in the early hours of Sunday.