A Sector-by-sector approach can be utilised to see how offices can be re-tooled during social distancing, along with a ramp-up in resources like masks and medical equipment.
US President Donald Trump's advocacy of older malaria drugs, chloroquine & hydroxychloroquine, with limited evidence of efficacy in Covid-19, is arguably dangerous.
There is evidence that pre-symptomatic people or those with mild symptoms are driving much of the spread of the virus, but there is still a lot we don’t know.
Even as China moves to lift a quarantine on the original virus epicentre of Wuhan after stanching the outbreak, India and much of Europe are locking down.
Shipping ministry has advised ports they may consider Covid-19 as grounds for invoking force majeure, absolving companies from meeting contractual commitments.
Strict movement curbs being enforced by state govts are hampering supplies of medical devices & those trying to meet the growing demands for health workers.
For over a decade now, organised efforts have been made to demand an amendment to the PCA Act, in order to give effect to its purpose i.e. prevention of cruelty.
Indigenisation level will progressively increase up to 60 percent with key sub-assemblies, electronics and mechanical parts being manufactured locally.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
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