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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.

Sri Lanka sends goodwill via radio, airs Buddhist chants to bless India’s Covid patients

Amrita Nayak Dutta -
SLBC, earlier known as Radio Ceylon, began a week-long broadcast of ‘Ratana Sutta’ on 6 May. It’s available on medium wave transmitters & online every evening.

US boost for vaccine production in India aimed at neighbours too, says envoy Daniel Smith

Nayanima Basu -
US Chargé D'Affaires Daniel Smith says it will take time for them to ship the readymade vaccines doses of AstraZeneca and J&J to India and other countries

No role in how states procure vaccines, says Centre days after it told SC it allocated quotas

Abantika Ghosh -
At press briefing, Joint Health Secretary Lav Agarwal says Centre isn't involved in states buying vaccines. Also said India’s Covid numbers are going down.

Covid variant B.1.617.2 is spreading fast in India, genome data shows

Mohana Basu -
The B.1.617 variant of the coronavirus consists of at least 3 sub-lineages — B.1.617.1, B.1.617.2 and B.1.617.3. The B.1.617.2 lineage is now growing in prevalence across the country.

Chinese man arrested for attacking, hurling racial slur at Indian-origin woman in Singapore

Gurdip Singh -
Police said the woman was confronted by a Chinese couple during her walk who told her to wear her mask properly. The man allegedly uttered an offensive racial remark and assaulted her.

Karnataka CM Yediyurappa asks Covid patients staying in hospitals ‘unnecessarily’ to go home

PTI -
The Karnataka chief minister said 503 people were in hospitals despite the advice of doctors for their discharge and were depriving serious patients of getting treatment.

Meerut is UP’s worst-hit Covid district, but villagers there still fear testing & hospitals

Taran Deol -
Meerut DM says 25% of cases are rural, but door-to-door UP govt survey only found 100 positive people. ASHA workers say patients with symptoms fear going to hospitals and dying.

Delhi’s positivity rate has dropped to 19% from 36% in April, says Satyendar Jain

ANI -
Warning that the second wave is still on, the Delhi health minister said people cannot be at ease till the positivity rate falls below 5%.

Prioritise giving second dose of Covid vaccine, minimise wastage, Centre tells states

PTI -
n a meeting held by Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan, states were asked to reserve at least 70% of the shots supplied from the central pool for second dosage.

Malayalam screenwriter Madampu Kunjukuttan passes away due to Covid-19

ANI -
Madampu Kunjukuttan was 81 years old. He won the National Film Award for Best Screenplay in the year 2000 for the Malayalam film 'Karunam'.
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Pune donkey incident is another reminder Indians hand out medieval treatment to animals

Alokparna Sengupta -
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.

Modi thinks he can win Bengal just like Bihar. Five reasons why he’s wrong

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Economy

RBI sees scope to cut policy rate in December

Bloomberg News -
It is up to the MPC to decide on rates in the coming policy, RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra said in an interview.

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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