According to the latest Travel Advisory, no international commercial passenger aircrafts will be allowed into India from midnight of 22 March, 2020 to 29 March, 2020. In view of these travel restrictions, all Indian nationals are advised to: Stay safe and isolated within the residential premises and follow the advisories updated on CDC...
Hicksville, NY: Dr Sunil Mehra, pulmonologist and critical care specialist, is at the front line of fighting coronavirus. He has been called in to see Covid-19 patients. Speaking to The South Asian Times Wednesday, he said there were 10 confirmed cases and another 10 probables at the NYC hospital he works with. But none...
Chicago, IL: “As concerned physicians witnessing the growing COVID-19 pandemic and its effect on our society, healthcare system and economy, we, members of the American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI), urge the Federal, State and Local Governments and policy makers for more immediate and severe action to prevent the crisis from becoming...
New York: With the number of coronavirus cases rising sharply in New York City to 3,615, Mayor Bill de Blasio has called for deploying the military to help the city face the pandemic. De Blasio said on Thursday the military must be given the orders to mobilize and take on the coronavirus crisis. "We have such...
Boston: To help immigrants, particularly the old people in these communities, access information and advisories about COVID-19 amid a coronavirus lock-down, a first-year Indian American medical student at Harvard Medical School has come up with a bright idea. Pooja Chandrashekar is leading a team of over 150 medical students to develop COVID-19 fact sheets and...
Beating virus hurts economy No one knows how long it will last or how much it will hurt. But the U.S. economy is either sliding into a recession for the first time since 2009 or is already in one — a sudden victim of the coronavirus outbreak. The vast changes deemed necessary to defeat the virus...
Experts are encouraging states to move towards vote-by-mail Washington: The outbreak of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, has already majorly disrupted the ongoing 2020 election, leaving campaigns and election officials scrambling at the last minute to adapt. As of Monday, five states and territories have postponed their upcoming Democratic presidential primaries. Early on Tuesday morning, the Ohio Supreme...
Washington: A White House health official has issued a warning that millennials may face a bigger threat to contracting coronavirus than had been previously reported. Since the onset of COVID-19, it’s been reported that older adults and people with serious chronic health issues were the ones most likely to get severely ill from the virus. But...
Washington: World Health Organization officials warned against calling COVID-19 the “Chinese virus” as President Donald Trump has done, arguing that it could lead to racial profiling, reports CNBC. “Viruses know no borders and they don’t care about your ethnicity, the color of your skin or how much money you have in the bank. So it’s...
