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  Noted Urdu Poet Rahat Indori Passes Away Day after Testing Positive for Coronavirus Indori, 70, who was quite active on social media, had wrote about his infection on his Twitter handle in the morning. Renowned Urdu poet Rahat Indori passed away at a hospital in Indore in Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday. He had tested positive for COVID-19 on Sunday.  A doctor at Sri Aurobindo Hospital said Indori suffered two heart attacks on Monday. "He was admitted to hospital on Sunday, after testing positive for COVID-19. He had 60% pneumonia," said Dr Vinod Bhandari. Indori, 70, who was quite active on social media, had written about his infection on his Twitter handle earlier in the day. “After showing initial Covid19 symptoms, I was tested for the virus on Monday and I am declared positive for the virus today and have been admitted to Aurobindo hospital,” Indori has written. A well-known Urdu poet, he had also asked his followers and fans to wish him a speedy recovery, and urged them to ...

WHO says COVID19 seems to lack seasonal pattern ‘Number of people infected by coronavirus will hit 20 million this week’ The emergencies chief for the World Health Organization said that COVID-19 doesn’t seem to follow the seasonal patterns that some viruses exhibit, making it harder to control. Unlike other respiratory viruses like influenza that spread mainly in the winter, the coronavirus pandemic is accelerating in the summer. That’s despite earlier predictions from some scientists and politicians it would fade in the heat. “This virus has demonstrated no seasonal pattern as such,” said Dr Michael Ryan at a press briefing on Monday. “What it has clearly demonstrated is that if you take the pressure off the virus, the virus bounces back,” he said. Ryan said the U.N. Health agency continues to advise countries even where COVID-19 appears to be under control, such as those in Europe, to maintain measures to slow virus spread. He called for countries where transmission remains intense,...