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Topic: Coronavirus pandemic

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.

The virus spreads through liquid particles when the infected person coughs, sneezes or breathes – it has a high multiplication rate. Therefore, the world had taken measures to quarantine or isolate those infected. While the disease can be mild and recoverable, those older or with underlying medical conditions are more likely to be adversely affected. The disease caused according to WHO estimates 3 million deaths in 2020.

How Covid supercharged world’s takeout culture and left a big mess

Bloomberg News -
Food delivery workers have been praised as heroes during the Covid pandemic. But downside to all that convenience has been a massive pileup of waste.

School closures are stressing our kids and threatening their future

Anjani Trivedi -
The pandemic is testing us all with volatile, uncertain and complex times. Our children are going through it, too. And keeping them out of school makes it much worse.

Can’t pay rent or salaries, how Covid & lack of govt funds are shutting down skill centres

Soniya Agrawal -
Some skilling centres have shut shop, while some are unable to pay salaries to their staff. Govt cites budget constraints for delay in disbursing payments to the centres.

Time to return to our regularly scheduled pandemic

Justin Fox -
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention aggregate forecasts show cases plateauing in coming weeks in hard-hit states like Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin.

We have to adapt to the new post-Covid world, says Modi at virtual summit with Italian PM

PTI -
Calling the Covid-19 pandemic a watershed event in history like World War 2, PM Modi said focus should be on ways to deal with the disease's adverse impact.

Lives & livelihoods are interdependent, can’t go back to how things were, says WHO chief

Sravasti Dasgupta -
At a virtual summit, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says focus should remain on helping the vulnerable population and that people must learn to live with social distancing.

150-175 million people will fall into extreme poverty due to Covid fallout, says UN expert

PTI -
Special Rapporteur Olivier De Schutter said most of those who will fall into extreme poverty will be informal sector workers or in precarious employment conditions, especially women.

Wealth of Indian, Chinese households grew in 2020 first half despite pandemic, report says

Venus Feng -
Only China & India saw gains, growing by 4.4% & 1.6%, respectively. Latin America suffered the most, with a 13% plunge, as currency devaluations aggravated losses.

1 in 6 kids lived in extreme poverty before Covid, condition to worsen globally — UN report

Unnati Sharma -
Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia consisted of 84 per cent of the world's extremely poor children, out of which India and Nigeria accounted for the most.

Comparison between India and Bangladesh GDP misleading — former chief economic advisor

ThePrint Team -
In a Twitter thread, Arvind Subramanian said that GDP per capita is only an estimate for one indicator of the average standard of living or welfare in a country.
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