Health Workers Quarantined

Germans who have not been vaccinated against Covid-19 will no longer receive compensation for lost pay if they have to quarantine from November, Health Minister Jens Spahn said on Wednesday.

The Assam Health Department has decided to tweak quarantine rules for doctors and health workers deployed in COVID-19 care duties after the state chapter of Indian Medical Association wrote to Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday, urging the health department not to take "whimsical decisions".

After a health worker was caught on video beating up a labourer at a quarantine centre in Pendri, Rajnandgaon, the Chief Medical Health Officer (CMHO) on Saturday claimed that labourer was drunk.

More than 480 health workers in Delhi's prestigious AIIMS hospital have tested positive for coronavirus. The figure includes 19 doctors and 38 nurses.

The Resident Doctors Association of AIIMS on Friday termed the government's decision to end the isolation healthcare workers after COVID-19 duty as a "non-scientific approach", saying it will prove detrimental for the workers and patients amid India's fight against coronavirus.

For Bindu and Girija, two frontline health workers in the fight against coronavirus in Kerala, the day starts early. They have to visit at least 25-30 houses everyday and these also include those in quarantine for COVID-19.

The Assam government will provide food for migrants who are being put in quarantine upon their return from other states, and later, they will be provided jobs, state Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Monday.

The central government on Wednesday said it will allow people left stranded by the nationwide COVID-19 lockdown to return to their homes, asking states to follow certain rules. Migrant workers, pilgrims, tourists, students and others will be allowed to register with their home states. The states will then discuss the evacuation and make arrangement...

Five people who were accused of attacking health workers tested positive for Coronavirus in UP's Moradabad on Wednesday, prompting the police department to quarantine 73 policemen who came in contact with them.

A quarantine team of health workers and policemen was targeted last evening in west Bengaluru by a large mob of about 200 locals when the officials reached a neighbourhood to take 58 people who were believed to have come in contact with three coronavirus patients. They were forced to retreat leaving behind 33 people who had to be taken to the isola...

68 doctors, nurses and staff of a government hospital in Delhi have been asked to be under home quarantine after a 25-year-old patient, who is suspected to have had coronavirus, died on Wednesday night.

At least six employees of the iconic Taj Mahal Palace and Taj Mahal Tower hotel in south Mumbai's Colaba have tested positive for coronavirus, a doctor attached to a private hospital said on Saturday.

Around 30 health workers at Delhi's prestigious All-India Institute of Medical Sciences were put under quarantine on Wednesdayas a patient admitted in a different ward turned out to be COVID-positive, sources said.

Authorities in Sierra Leone quarantined three doctors and 28 nurses in the capital Freetown when a mother tested positive for Ebola after giving birth, the health ministry said today.

Moves by some US states to isolate medical workers returning from fighting Ebola in West Africa could worsen the global health crisis by discouraging badly needed new volunteers, according to health experts at Harvard University.

Germans who have not been vaccinated against Covid-19 will no longer receive compensation for lost pay if they have to quarantine from November, Health Minister Jens Spahn said on Wednesday.

The Assam Health Department has decided to tweak quarantine rules for doctors and health workers deployed in COVID-19 care duties after the state chapter of Indian Medical Association wrote to Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday, urging the health department not to take "whimsical decisions".

After a health worker was caught on video beating up a labourer at a quarantine centre in Pendri, Rajnandgaon, the Chief Medical Health Officer (CMHO) on Saturday claimed that labourer was drunk.

More than 480 health workers in Delhi's prestigious AIIMS hospital have tested positive for coronavirus. The figure includes 19 doctors and 38 nurses.

The Resident Doctors Association of AIIMS on Friday termed the government's decision to end the isolation healthcare workers after COVID-19 duty as a "non-scientific approach", saying it will prove detrimental for the workers and patients amid India's fight against coronavirus.

For Bindu and Girija, two frontline health workers in the fight against coronavirus in Kerala, the day starts early. They have to visit at least 25-30 houses everyday and these also include those in quarantine for COVID-19.

The Assam government will provide food for migrants who are being put in quarantine upon their return from other states, and later, they will be provided jobs, state Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Monday.

The central government on Wednesday said it will allow people left stranded by the nationwide COVID-19 lockdown to return to their homes, asking states to follow certain rules. Migrant workers, pilgrims, tourists, students and others will be allowed to register with their home states. The states will then discuss the evacuation and make arrangement...

Five people who were accused of attacking health workers tested positive for Coronavirus in UP's Moradabad on Wednesday, prompting the police department to quarantine 73 policemen who came in contact with them.

A quarantine team of health workers and policemen was targeted last evening in west Bengaluru by a large mob of about 200 locals when the officials reached a neighbourhood to take 58 people who were believed to have come in contact with three coronavirus patients. They were forced to retreat leaving behind 33 people who had to be taken to the isola...

68 doctors, nurses and staff of a government hospital in Delhi have been asked to be under home quarantine after a 25-year-old patient, who is suspected to have had coronavirus, died on Wednesday night.

At least six employees of the iconic Taj Mahal Palace and Taj Mahal Tower hotel in south Mumbai's Colaba have tested positive for coronavirus, a doctor attached to a private hospital said on Saturday.

Around 30 health workers at Delhi's prestigious All-India Institute of Medical Sciences were put under quarantine on Wednesdayas a patient admitted in a different ward turned out to be COVID-positive, sources said.

Authorities in Sierra Leone quarantined three doctors and 28 nurses in the capital Freetown when a mother tested positive for Ebola after giving birth, the health ministry said today.

Moves by some US states to isolate medical workers returning from fighting Ebola in West Africa could worsen the global health crisis by discouraging badly needed new volunteers, according to health experts at Harvard University.