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TopicCoronavirus

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.

Why vaccine ‘cocktails’ are not such a good idea, at least not yet

Marthe Fourcade -
Public health officials are examining strategies such as blending 2 different shots as many low- and middle-income nations try to figure out how to cope with vaccine scarcity.

How Goa went from a 5% Covid test positivity rate in March to 50% today

Manasi Phadke -
The small coastal state is now scrambling to contain a mammoth Covid caseload, adding more than 2,500 new positive patients each day.

DU losing academic talent to Covid. University must rope in Patel Chest Institute

Chandrachur Singh -
Being a premier university, DU has a pandemic responsibility it is not fulfilling. It must rise to the occasion as academic institutions world over are doing.

World finally accepts China’s much-maligned Sinovac shot

Bloomberg News -
Sinovac has already shipped some 380 mn doses, more than AstraZeneca and second only to Pfizer, worldwide. But it still hasn’t published any data in an academic journal.

Tejasvi Surya proposes, BBMP disposes, says can’t implement his Covid bed allotment ‘fixes’

Rohini Swamy -
BJP MP Tejasvi Surya claimed he would get BBMP to reform bed allotment ‘within 100 hours’, but by next day, most processes returned to the way they were, with minor tweaks.

IAS officer launches online portal for plasma donations to aid Covid crisis

Unnati Sharma -
Abhishek Singh, Deputy Commissioner in Delhi, launched the portal ‘United by Blood’ a week ago to handle 'information asymmetry' about blood plasma donations.

Religious & political events among factors that accelerated Covid cases in India: WHO

PTI -
In its Covid weekly epidemiological update, WHO said the exact contributions of each of these factors on increased transmission are not well understood.

Start free mass vaccination, stop Central Vista project — 12 Opposition parties write to Modi

PTI -
In a joint letter to PM Modi, 12 opposition party leaders, including Sonia Gandhi, have demanded Central govt to provide foodgrains to the needy and Rs 6,000 monthly to the unemployed.

Delhi receives 2.67 lakh Covishield doses, runs out of Covaxin for 18-44 age group: AAP

PTI -
AAP MLA Atishi said 44 centres giving Covaxin will be shut. She also informed that there are 4.18 lakh Covishield doses for 18-44 age group and can last up to nine days.

Increase vaccine manufacturing, share tech with poor nations to fight Covid: global panel

Sravasti Dasgupta -
Final report of Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response highlights reasons behind global Covid surge and also gives suggestions on arresting the present crisis.
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Worker exploitation powers the firework industry in Tamil Nadu’s Sivakasi

Karti P Chidambaram -
For an industry globally classified as hazardous, protections such as health insurance and a provident fund for workers are necessities. In Sivakasi, they remain elusive.

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Economy

172 countries & counting, India looks to hit new record in rice exports. But there’s a flip side

Udit Bubna -
The industry forecasts exports are set to grow 16% in 2025-26, boosted by surplus domestic production and a drive to push into 26 underserved global markets with strong potential.

Defence

India and France to jointly manufacture HAMMER air-to-surface missile

Snehesh Alex Philip -
Indigenisation level will progressively increase up to 60 percent with key sub-assemblies, electronics and mechanical parts being manufactured locally.

National Interest

A tribute to Tejas. India’s delay culture is the real enemy in the skies

Shekhar Gupta -
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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