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indica News Service Singer Pink who tested positive for Covid-19 has announced that she will be donating $500,000 to two emergency funds to fight the deadly coronavirus. Singer Pink said that she and her three-year-old son were tested positive for coronavirus. After this they were sheltering at home, they were tested again for the coronavirus […]
Arul Louis- “It’s horrible, horrible, people are dying in the emergency room (ER),” said an Indian-American doctor on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic describing the grim conditions at hospitals here where patients are lined up in the hallways, freezer trucks are parked outside to store bodies and the ambulance crews received orders to […]
IANS- The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday invoked its mentor and former Prime Minister late Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s iconic poem “Ao fir se diya jalaye” to promote Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s campaign urging all citizens to light a candle at 9 p.m. on Sunday for nine minutes to show their solidarity with the fight […]
Arul Louis- While India is fighting to stop the spread of COVID-19, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michele Bachelet, on Thursday criticized the quarantine measures put in place in the country, saying they stigmatize people. She “expressed regret at the measures that have the effect of stigmatizing sections of society, including migrants, such as […]
indica News Bureau- To protect the interests of the American citizens, a US body of American Technologists has urged President Donald Trump to suspend the H1B B visa program for IT professionals in the wake of coronavirus and the massive layoffs that will follow the pandemic. The H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa that allows […]
indica News Service India has only one positive case of coronavirus for every million of its population which is comparatively much lower than the global average of 120 cases in a million. The country is even better if we consider deaths from the virus. India has 0.04 deaths per million compared to the global average […]
IANS- All the 850 passengers on board the coronavirus-stricken Grand Princess cruise ship have completed their quarantine and departed the California-based Travis Air Force Base (AFB), it was announced. The passengers arrived at Travis AFB on March 9 where they received daily screening for COVID-19 symptoms, basic medical care for other health conditions, meals, […]
Nikhila Natarajan- Social distancing guidelines will likely stay in place in the US until there are “no new cases and no deaths”, the White House coronavirus task force has indicated while confirmed COVID-19 cases in the country climbed beyond 200,000 and deaths topped 4,700. “The ultimate solution to a virus that might keep coming back […]
Ritu Jha- Finding no resource to sustain the 21-day sudden lockdown, hundreds of thousands of daily-wage workers, migrants who worked in India’s capital, opted to go on foot, walking back home in what experts believe has to happen one day, something the government should have thought about before implementing lockdown, others say. On the night […]
The 2020 Census is underway and your participation is essential. While many of us shelter in place, now is a good time to complete your Census and be counted. What is the Census? The Census is held every ten years, this Census counts every person who is living in the United States. By now, […]
