COVID-19 Daily Updates

Train coach sealed after passenger receives COVID-19 positive result during journey

August 1, 2020, 6:39 PM

Nation Next Newsroom | Ernakulam

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A train coach was sealed and disinfected after a 29-year-old man travelling on the train got to know that he is COVID-19 positive. The man, who was travelling from Kozhikode, was immediately deboarded and sent to hospital.

As per reports, when the train Kozhikode-Thiruvananthpuram Jan Shatabdi Express reached Ernakulam North railway station at 2 pm on Friday, D3 – the coach the man was travelling in was sealed and disinfected. While the man was sent to the hospital, his co-passengers were asked to quarantine themselves at home. Officials at the Ernakulam railway station were alerted by medical authorities when they got to know about the man’s positive status.

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The man got to know that he is COVID-19 positive when he received a call from Kozhikode medical authorities who had taken his swap sample earlier as the man had come in contact with a COVID-19 patient. The man had reportedly booked his train ticket to Thiruvananthpuram before the test as he had some personal emergency to attend to in Kanyakumari.

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Active COVID cases near 30,000 mark in Nagpur

Published

4 years ago

January 25, 2022

Radhika Dhawad | Nagpur

Nagpur’s COVID-19 tally, on Tuesday, January 25, reached 5,43,064 (till 5 pm) as 4028 (972 from rural and 2956 from city) new cases were recorded in a single day.

Also, active COVID cases, as on Tuesday, could be seen inching closer to 30,000 mark in the district.

Six people lost their lives (one from rural and five from city) on Tuesday. Till now, 10,183 people have lost their lives due to COVID-19 in the district. Total tests taken were 11,377.

While patients who recovered on Tuesday were 2519, the total number of recovered patients stood at 503729.

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Nagpur reports 90 COVID cases in past 24 hours

Published

4 years ago

January 2, 2022

Radhika Dhawad | Nagpur

Nagpur’s COVID-19 tally on Sunday, January 2 reached 4,94,193 (till 5 pm) as 90 (73 city, nine rural) more people tested positive for the virus.

Also, five patients recovered on Sunday taking the number of recoveries to 4,83,664.

Till now, 10123 people have lost their lives due to COVID in the district. As of now, there are 406 active COVID patients in the district.

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ALARMING! Nagpur reports 88 COVID cases in past 24 hours

Published

4 years ago

December 31, 2021

Radhika Dhawad | Nagpur

Nagpur registered 88 (81 from city) new COVID-19 positive cases on Friday, December 31. Nagpur previously had recorded as minimum as six cases on December 24.