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Chennai: A day after announcing that TASMAC wine shops across Tamilnadu would be reopened on 7 May, the Tamilnadu government today said liquor outlets would not be reopened in Chennai alone on that day. It also said fresh date for the reopening of wine shops in the metropolis would be announced later. Sources said the decision was taken because of the unprecedented increase in the number of coronavirus cases in the capital. In what could be seen as music to the ears of tipplers, who were left ‘high and dry’ in the wake of lockdown to tackle the spread of coronavirus, the Tamilnadu government on Monday announced opening of State-owned TASMAC liquor shops from May seven, but with some stringent conditions. An official release here said the shops in the State would be allowed to open...

NEW DELHI: The total number of Covid-19 cases in the country has risen to 46,433. Of this, 32,138 cases are active, 12,727 have been cured. The deadly virus has claimed the lives of 1,568 people, according to latest updates from the Union health ministry. Maharashtra continues to be the worst-affected state with a total of 14,541 cases, followed by Gujarat (5,804) and Delhi (4,898). On Monday, the Union health ministry said that the nation's outcome ratio against Covid-19 pandemic has improved from 80:20 to 90:10 now. In another development, about 15,000 Indians could fly back home from all across the world in the first week of repatriation flights that start from Thursday. The country has forgotten "Kashmir war" due to the war situation triggered by Covid-19, but Pakistan has not, t...

The American College of Cardiology together with other North American cardiovascular societies has issued a framework for ethically and safely reintroducing invasive cardiovascular procedures and diagnostic tests after the initial peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The document was published today in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. The COVID-19 pandemic has forced appropriate, but significant, restrictions on routine medical care, including invasive procedures to treat heart disease and diagnostic tests to diagnose heart disease. Many hospitals and practices have attempted to defer and replace these critical procedures with intensified triage and management of patients on waiting lists; however, many patients with untreated cardiovascular disease are at an increased ri...

DALLAS, May 5, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Jacobs' (NYSE:J) subsidiary Simetrica-Jacobs and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) published a report looking at the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health and wellbeing of people in the U.K. The report found "substantially worse" levels of wellbeing and psychological distress across the U.K. in April 2020 compared to the same period in 2019. Levels of all measures of wellbeing are at the lowest in the U.K. since records began in 2011 and many parts of the population are over the threshold for psychiatric morbidity. The costs of the COVID-19 pandemic and social distancing measures on mental health and wellbeing were calculated to have an indicative monetary value to the U.K. of £2.25 billion ($2.8bn) per day,...