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BJP leader Jyotiraditya Scindia has tested positive for Covid-19 and has been admitted to a private hospital here, sources said on Tuesday.
He was admitted to Max Hospital, Saket on Monday, they said. “He has tested positive for Covid-19,” a source said.
Scindia had shown some symptoms of coronavirus following which he was brought to the facility.
Source: PTI
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has tested negative for Covid-19, an official said on Tuesday.
The 51-year-old Aam Aadmi Party leader underwent the test for coronavirus Tuesday morning. Kejriwal had gone into self-quarantine on Sunday after he developed a sore throat and fever.
The fever has subsided and he is now feeling well, the official said.
Source: PTI
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Disinvestment secretary Tuhin Kanta Pandey has tested positive for Covid-19 and is under home quarantine, according to sources.
Pandey got himself tested for Covid-19 after developing mild fever and was found to be infected by coronavirus, said one of the sources.
Following this, joint secretaries in the Department of Investment and Public Asset Management have gone into home quarantine, sources said.
The department, which is in the CGO complex, has been sealed for sanitisation. Thi sis the third case in the department.
Source: PTI
As many as 11 Kolkata Police personnel have tested positive for Covid-19, taking the total number of infected policemen in the force to 217, a senior officer said on Tuesday.
The 11 infected Kolkata Police personnel were from the combat force, the Police Training School and different police stations, the officer said.
"At the moment we have around 217 policemen who have been diagnosed with the disease. We have several of our colleagues who have recovered and resumed duty... I think our colleagues are doing a fabulous job. I wish everyone will be safe and all those down with the disease will get well soon," the IPS officer said.
Source: PTI
Most mobile applications that track the spread of Covid-19 require access to users' personal data, but only a handful indicate the data would be anonymous, encrypted and secured, according to a study by Indian-origin researchers in the U.S.
Professor Masooda Bashir and doctoral student Tanusree Sharma from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign analysed 50 Covid-19-related apps available in the Google Play store for their access to users' personal data and their privacy protections.
"Governments' use of such tracking technology -- and the possibilities for how they might use it after the pandemic -- is chilling to many," the researchers wrote in the study published in the journal Nature Medicine.
"Notably, surveillance mapping through apps will allow governments to identify people's travel paths and their entire social networks," they noted.
Source: PTI
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Some laboratories in Mumbai took as many as 18 days to deliver swab reports related to coronavirus cases, BMC Commissioner IS Chahal has said.
The senior IAS officer, who took over as commissioner of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation last month, said after he joined the post, he found that swab reports of April 4 were delivered on April 22.
"Some labs were committing serious crime by submitting reports 18 days later. They deserved to be punished for late reporting," Chahal told a TV channel on Monday.
Source: PTI
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Global Update
Lockdowns and other public-health measures may have prevented about a half-billion coronavirus infections in six countries, including China and the U.S., according to the first peer-reviewed analysis of the impact of health policies on the pandemic. The World Health Organization said transmission of the virus by people who aren’t showing symptoms is “rare.” The genetic-testing company 23andMe found that blood type may play a role in who is susceptible.
Cases pass 7 million; deaths exceed 405,000.
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