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Lockdown: Don’t use tobacco, alcohol to cope with boredom, these affect immunity: Health Ministry

Using tobacco and drinking alcohol to cope with boredom during the COVID-19 lockdown can affect immunity as well as mental health, the Union Health...

Doctors deprived of quality personal protective equipment

‘We too are humans; system should value our lives’ Long after covid-19 was declared a pandemic by World Health Organisation, doctors in Kashmir are still...

Healthcare providers to get Rs 50 lakh/person insurance cover

State-owned New India Assurance has been entrusted to provide insurance cover of Rs 50 lakh to about 22 lakh health care providers, who are...

Coronavirus deaths top 35,000 worldwide, most in Europe

More than 35,000 people have died worldwide from the coronavirus pandemic since it emerged late last year in China, most of them in Europe,...

Migrant workers sprayed with disinfectant in UP

"About 50 of us were seating and waiting for food and the bus at the satellite bus adda when some men in protective suits...

3 more test positive in J&K, tally rises to 41

Three more persons tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday raising the total number of infected people to 41 in Jammu and Kashmir. Rohit Kansal,...

Khanyar woman, who became Kashmir’s first Covid-19 patient, tests negative

The 67-year-old woman had returned to her home on March 16th after performing Umrah in Saudi Arabia. A woman from Khanyar area of Srinagar, who...

7 villages declared red zones to prevent Covid-19 spread in Pulwama

Seven villages have been declared as red zones in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district amid nationwide lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Invoking prohibitory...