14-day Lockdown

Streets were largely empty and shops dotting the thoroughfares mostly closed on Wednesday morning as a 14-day lockdown came into effect in Odisha with the imposition of several restrictions.

A 14-day lockdown has been announced in Odisha between May 5-May 19 to break the chain of transmission as the state sees a spike in Covid cases like the rest of the country, hit by a devastating second wave.

The Odisha government on Thursday announced a 14-day complete lockdown in four districts and a municipal corporation with high coronavirus load beginning from July 17 evening.

A 14-day lockdown in Guwahati came into force on Sunday evening in order to fight the rising number of coronavirus cases in the city, which the opposition Congress termed the failure of the Assam health minister.

The Assam government on Tuesday imposed a 14-day total lockdown in 11 municipal ward areas of Guwahati with effect from 9 pm as there is a large-scale spread of coronavirus infection among people of certain parts of the city.

He quit his job in Dubai and returned to India to spend time with his ailing mother but life doesn't always go according to plan - or COVID-19 restrictions - and news of her death came shortly before his 14-day quarantine in Delhi was ending.

Lakhs of migrant workers, students and tourists have been stranded since the Centre announced a nation-wide lockdown on March 24 to tackle the coronavirus pandemic. However, in recent days, the government has been trying to help the stranded citizens by running special trains and flights for them and asking various states to make provisions for the...

Over 1,500 Indian nationals stranded abroad by the coronavirus lockdown are expected to be repatriated on Sunday, the fourth day of a mammoth operation by the government that involves sending commercial passenger jets and Indian Navy warships to over a dozen countries. Billed as India's largest peacetime repatriation exercise, national carrier Air ...

Nearly 400 students from Assam, who were stranded in coaching hub Kota in Rajasthan amid a nationwide lockdown over coronavirus, returned to Guwahati earlier this morning after a 2000-km bus ride; they have been sent to a 14-day quarantine.

The Uttar Pradesh government will bring back migrant workers stranded in other states amid the nationwide coronavirus lockdown, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said today. They will be brought back in phases after having completed a 14-day quarantine at the places in which they had been staying, the Chief Minister added. The UP government's decision...

A 14-day quarantine in state-run camps is mandatory for lakhs of migrant labourers who are returning to their hometowns in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar in special buses amid a nationwide lockdown over coronavirus or COVID-19.

Suspected patients of coronavirus rising across the country, instances of jumping the mandatory 14-day quarantine or failure to get tested for the disease are also spiralling. On Wednesday, two separate instances were reported from across the country -- the first in Maharashtra, where four people with quarantine stamps on their hands got onto a tra...

Streets were largely empty and shops dotting the thoroughfares mostly closed on Wednesday morning as a 14-day lockdown came into effect in Odisha with the imposition of several restrictions.

A 14-day lockdown has been announced in Odisha between May 5-May 19 to break the chain of transmission as the state sees a spike in Covid cases like the rest of the country, hit by a devastating second wave.

The Odisha government on Thursday announced a 14-day complete lockdown in four districts and a municipal corporation with high coronavirus load beginning from July 17 evening.

A 14-day lockdown in Guwahati came into force on Sunday evening in order to fight the rising number of coronavirus cases in the city, which the opposition Congress termed the failure of the Assam health minister.

The Assam government on Tuesday imposed a 14-day total lockdown in 11 municipal ward areas of Guwahati with effect from 9 pm as there is a large-scale spread of coronavirus infection among people of certain parts of the city.

He quit his job in Dubai and returned to India to spend time with his ailing mother but life doesn't always go according to plan - or COVID-19 restrictions - and news of her death came shortly before his 14-day quarantine in Delhi was ending.

Lakhs of migrant workers, students and tourists have been stranded since the Centre announced a nation-wide lockdown on March 24 to tackle the coronavirus pandemic. However, in recent days, the government has been trying to help the stranded citizens by running special trains and flights for them and asking various states to make provisions for the...

Over 1,500 Indian nationals stranded abroad by the coronavirus lockdown are expected to be repatriated on Sunday, the fourth day of a mammoth operation by the government that involves sending commercial passenger jets and Indian Navy warships to over a dozen countries. Billed as India's largest peacetime repatriation exercise, national carrier Air ...

Nearly 400 students from Assam, who were stranded in coaching hub Kota in Rajasthan amid a nationwide lockdown over coronavirus, returned to Guwahati earlier this morning after a 2000-km bus ride; they have been sent to a 14-day quarantine.

The Uttar Pradesh government will bring back migrant workers stranded in other states amid the nationwide coronavirus lockdown, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said today. They will be brought back in phases after having completed a 14-day quarantine at the places in which they had been staying, the Chief Minister added. The UP government's decision...

A 14-day quarantine in state-run camps is mandatory for lakhs of migrant labourers who are returning to their hometowns in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar in special buses amid a nationwide lockdown over coronavirus or COVID-19.

Suspected patients of coronavirus rising across the country, instances of jumping the mandatory 14-day quarantine or failure to get tested for the disease are also spiralling. On Wednesday, two separate instances were reported from across the country -- the first in Maharashtra, where four people with quarantine stamps on their hands got onto a tra...