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.

‘Drop-a-pin’ on Google Maps, video call cops: Delhi HC tells convict released over Covid fears

Apoorva Mandhani - April 22, 2020

Babu Lal was convicted under POCSO Act for sexually assaulting a minor and had been in jail since 24 February 2020.

India’s favourite apps in lockdown — Zoom, TikTok and Aarogya Setu

Regina Mihindukulasuriya - April 22, 2020

Download figures for apps in the past month indicate which kinds of apps have been popular among users in India during the Covid-19 lockdown.

‘Dhoop aane do’, don’t lose hope & feed the strays: Gulzar’s lockdown message in poetry, prose

Gulzar - April 22, 2020

Stay hopeful, and practise social distancing, says Gulzar in his new poem. Read the translation of the poem by Rakhshanda Jalil.

The Centre-state face-off on Covid-19 and Earth’s changing face

Shubhangi Misra - April 22, 2020

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

How a 55-year-old Delhi woman infected 31 people with coronavirus before her death

Fatima Khan - April 22, 2020

The woman was declared Covid positive 4 days after she died. By then, 31 people, including her relatives, in Delhi's Jahangirpuri locality had caught the infection.

Up to 7 yrs in jail, Rs 5 lakh fine if you injure a health worker treating Covid-19 patients

Moushumi Das Gupta - April 22, 2020

Modi govt promulgates ordinance to amend the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897, increasing punishment and fast-tracking investigation and judgments.

Civil aviation ministry forced to shut offices again as junior staffer tests positive

ThePrint Team - April 22, 2020

Central ministry offices had resumed operations Monday with limited staff after nearly a month of lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Viral photo of mother ‘dying’ of Covid-19 and her baby is actually from 1985

Bismee Taskin - April 22, 2020

The viral photo was clicked by American photographer Burt Glinn in 1985 at a Cancer Centre in US before the baby's bone marrow transplant.

India plans to resume trade dialogue with China once Covid situation stabilises: Envoy Misri

Nayanima Basu - April 22, 2020

Speaking to ThePrint, Ambassador Vikram Misri said India also expects China to respond to its RCEP concerns once the bilateral discussions resume.

Swiggy could shut many of its cloud kitchens, lay off over 500 workers as sales slump

Revathi Krishnan - April 22, 2020

Layoffs are likely to take place next month from the cloud kitchens across 10 tier 1 and tier 2 cities, which operate Swiggy-owned Homely and The Bowl Company.

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