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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.

Beijing sees record number of Covid cases as lockdown woes continue

Bloomberg News -
The city reported 99 cases for Sunday, up from 61 on Saturday with the case tally hovering around 50 a day.

China blames prolonged Covid restrictions on unvaccinated elderly

Bloomberg News -
Officials are using incentives like cash prizes, cooking oil, eggs and milk to convince seniors to get inoculated.

North Korea admits first Covid casualty, calls recent spread ‘explosive’

Shinhye Kang -
Pyongyang revealed Friday that the country has had 350,000 cases and over six deaths since April this year.

China wants to restrict travel further, another Covid-Zero excess

Bloomberg News -
As most of the world shifts to living with the virus, Beijing's stubbornness is harming its citizens.

Reform WHO to build more resilient global health architecture, says Modi at world Covid summit

ThePrint Team -
The Prime Minister told participants that India’s vaccination programme was the largest in the world, ‘we can produce 5 billion doses this year’.

Govt set to allow Covid booster dose before 9-month waiting period for those flying abroad

PTI -
The decision about the precaution dose for overseas travellers was based on recommendations by the National Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation.

In rebuttal to WHO, Modi govt claimed 99.9% deaths registered. NFHS-5 pegs 2019-21 figure at 71%

Abantika Ghosh -
NFHS-5 India report, based on fieldwork done from 2019 to 2021, was released Thursday. It gives death registration level as 83% for urban, 66% for rural households.

‘Science does not lie, Modi does,’ Rahul Gandhi after WHO figures on Covid deaths

ThePrint Team -
In its report Thursday, WHO estimated there were 47 lakh Covid deaths in India, 10 times the official figures.

Covid killed one out of every 500 people globally, WHO report shows

Thomas Mulier -
The WHO’s new estimate is more than twice the figures from individual governments’ reports showing about 6.2 million Covid deaths.

India saw 81.2 lakh deaths in 2020, up 6% over last pre-Covid year 2019, CRS data shows

Abantika Ghosh -
CRS data for 2020 released by health ministry Tuesday. It comes amid a tussle between WHO and government over exact figure of deaths in India during Covid pandemic.
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