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Topic: Coronavirus

Coronavirus or Covid-19 is an infectious disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. It is a viral disease that turned into a pandemic in early 2020. The first known case was recorded in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. Coronavirus has multiple variants such as Delta and Omicron, and its most common symptoms are fever, chills and sore throat.

Noida records its 1st Covid case, a 55-year-old woman, as cases surge again

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CMO Narendra Kumar says the woman, from Sector 110 in Noida, has been placed under home isolation, with her husband and help testing negative for the virus.

WHO calls on China to provide data on Covid-19, says it’s a ‘moral and scientific imperative’

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Five years after the outbreak, WHO reiterated in a statement Monday that China should provide data and access to understand the virus’s origins.

How controversial paper’s retraction has stirred up coronavirus ‘lab leak theory’ again

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A paper on natural origins of coronavirus was retracted and published anew, bringing back speculation about a Wuhan 'lab leak' during experiments on samples from NY-based EcoHealth.

Chinese virologist who sequenced SARS-CoV-2 barred from own lab, later allowed ‘for time being’

Pia Krishnankutty -
Chinese authorities claimed lab was undergoing renovation, but Zhang Yongzhen said in online post later that he & his team had been allowed to return to lab for the ‘time being’.

India reports 1,272 new Covid cases in last 24 hours, active cases at 15,515

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The daily positivity rate is 1.02 per cent and the weekly positivity rate stands at 1.20 per cent, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said.

WHO questions China on ‘delay & transparency’ as Covid data from 2020 is uploaded in 2023, then deleted 

Mohana Basu -
WHO chief Tedros Ghebreyesus also says he is ‘confident that this year we will be able to say that Covid-19 is over as a public health emergency of international concern’. 

AIIMS hacking a result of primitive data-security practices. Digital India citizens deserve reliable tech

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ThePrint view on the most important issues.

You can holiday in Bhutan again, but there’s a development fee of Rs 1,200/day

Amogh Rohmetra -
This 'sustainable development fee' being levied by Bhutan is meant to 'mitigate negative impact of tourism on cultural landscape and natural environment' of country.

New ‘SARS-CoV-2-like virus’ found in Russian bats can infect humans, says US study

Mohana Basu -
Published in 'PLOS Pathogens', the study found the virus, 'Khosta-2', was resistant to available Covid vaccines, but also that it lacks the genes needed to develop into a disease.

Here’s why you caught that summer cold, again

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Heatwaves, humidity fluctuations and pandemic-induced lockdowns across countries could be the culprit.
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Economy

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Defence

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National Interest

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

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Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?

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