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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.

Trump backs off broader immigration ban, but says no new green cards for 60 days

Srijan Shukla -
From a US state suing China for coronavirus to risk of famines of 'biblical proportions' — ThePrint brings you 8 important global stories linked to Covid-19.

Singapore proves there is no textbook response to fighting Covid-19

Daniel Moss -
Once lauded as a beacon in the Covid-19 fight, Singapore reported 9,125 infections Tuesday— the most cases in Southeast Asia.

YouTube, FB should counter rumours, provide information on food and shelter in Covid times

Anindita Mukherjee -
Digital platforms have the potential to disseminate accurate information that is required to fight the stigma around Covid-19 disease.

Hackers target top WHO officials while they struggle to tackle coronavirus

Ryan Gallagher -
The WHO’s security team has seen an increasing number of attempted cyber-attacks, some from suspected nation-state hackers, on officials since mid-March.

Covid created another loss — of trust between people and with organisations like WHO, UN

Manish Tewari -
China’s pernicious surveillance practices now inform the national containment strategy of many democratic nations in Covid-19 fight. It is destroying public trust.

Trump sows uncertainty with green card ban and hints at more

Nick Wadhams -
Trump’s decision will affect thousands of would-be immigrants seeking to move permanently to the US, and further delays a green card process.

Covid-19 is our chance to teach kids empathy just like we train them in Maths and Science

Anantha K. Duraiappah -
Empathy, compassion and kindness should be taught in schools as it will help us form a peaceful and sustainable world after the Covid-19 crisis.

Gastroenterologist son of Communist leader is Mamata’s go-to man to fight Covid in Bengal

Madhuparna Das -
Abhijeet Choudhury heads Bengal's experts committee of doctors formed to combat Covid-19 and is convenor of the govt’s global advisory board led by Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee.

UK to start human trials of coronavirus vaccine tomorrow

Robert Hutton -
The vaccine trials will be of a drug developed at Oxford University and UK govt will give 20 million pounds to support the research.

Jabalpur is a success story in the Covid mess of Madhya Pradesh

Falguni Tewari -
Jabalpur saw its first coronavirus cases on 20 March. Since then, Madhya Pradesh has crossed 1400 cases with 72 deaths while Jabalpur only has 20 cases with no deaths.
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Why Modi-Shah have failed to develop mass leaders in states the way Vajpayee-Advani did

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BJP had leaders like Modi, Chouhan, Raje, Raman Singh, BSY, and Dhumal who kept the party’s flame burning. Those promoted by Modi-Shah in the last 10 years fail to inspire confidence.

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Beijing is concerned about anti-China sentiment in India. New Delhi is focused on border

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Economy

How businesses can become more resilient to the physical impacts of climate change

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Extreme weather events have impacted 50% of corporate respondents to a recent survey. This underlines the importance of significant action now to increase climate resilience.

Defence

‘Nightmare at Chennai Marina’: 4 dead, 96 hospitalised after pandemonium at packed IAF air show

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Lakhs of people were stranded at beach in heat as crowd control measures apparently failed. At least 14 lakh people were in attendance though police had expected around 10 lakh.

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Islam doesn’t kill democracy. The army-Islam combo does

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How come Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey and Sri Lanka remain constitutional, democratic and stable despite Islam and Buddhism respectively, but Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar don’t?

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