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Covid-19 fight is a Test match, not a T20. Here’s what India needs to do to win

India has started well with the lockdown, but now, the Modi govt needs to look beyond short-term gains and produce a comprehensive strategy for the long haul.

India’s Covid deaths rise steadily but infection rate fluctuates in states: Data experts

Economists Shamika Ravi and Mudit Kapoor have been collating data on India's Covid-19 numbers to better understand the disease's trajectory in the country.

HIV-drug combo, touted as a promising Covid-19 treatment, fails clinical trial

A plastic canopy to protect medical staff and a study that says air pollution is making people more vulnerable to Covid-19, ThePrint brings you the latest on the pandemic.

India’s Covid-19 R0 down to 1.36 now, 25,000 cases by April-end at this rate: IMS scientist

Sitabhra Sinha, a scientist at IMS, says without the reduced R0, indicating number of people a Covid-19 patient can infect, active cases would have hit 1 lakh by 27 April.

Kerala hospital begins HCQ clinical trial even after ICMR says no basis for such studies

The trial assumes the ICMR-recommended HCQ regimen is an ‘effective treatment’. However, ICMR chief epidemiologist says there isn’t enough evidence behind this.

The novel coronavirus circulated for 40 years before jumping species

The first thing to know is that it is rare for viruses to jump between species. In order for a virus to successfully jump, it must be able to do several things.

Massive black hole collides with much smaller one, creates unique space event

This is the first collision of asymmetrical black holes physicists have ever observed, and the event confirms another prediction of Albert Einstein.

Satyajit Ray’s ‘Feluda’ will soon detect coronavirus in minutes, thanks to CSIR scientists

Scientists at Delhi’s CSIR-IGIB have developed a paper-based test strip for Covid-19, and named it after the fictional detective created by Satyajit Ray.

June Almeida — the woman who discovered first coronavirus but was told she was wrong

June Almeida, who dropped out of school at 16 because she couldn’t afford it, went on to become a pioneer in virology.

Can blood pressure medicines harm Covid-19 patients? US trial to find out

From 3D-printed swabs to AI tool that fast-tracks research, ThePrint brings you a roundup of the latest research to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic.

On Camera

I met Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in 2005. He told me he was an admirer of MK Gandhi

Shuttle diplomacy at a high level is indicated, along the lines of the famous Kissingerian shuttles following the 1973 Arab-Israeli war.

#ByeByeAP to #LuluBackInAP: Naidu’s moves to make Andhra ‘business friendly’ & woo back investors

The Jagan Reddy govt has been accused of scuppering various investment deals. Under Naidu, the govt, is trying to make AP a top investment destination, officials and industrialists say.

‘No drone bombs or infiltration’, Army Chief says ‘battle of narratives’ must be controlled in Manipur

Chief of Army Staff General Upendra Dwivedi says the Manipur conflict was triggered by a rumour and that the situation may be ‘stable today, but it is tense’.

Islam doesn’t kill democracy. The army-Islam combo does

How come Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey and Sri Lanka remain constitutional, democratic and stable despite Islam and Buddhism respectively, but Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar don’t?