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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.

Migrants, medics and even zoo animals, SC has heard PILs for every kind of case in lockdown

Apoorva Mandhani -
Public Interest Litigations (PILs) have made up the bulk of the business for the Supreme Court since the lockdown was imposed on 25 March.

Sweta Singh’s ‘jaankaari ki vaccine’ on Aaj Tak, Times Now admires Yogi’s commitment

Fiza Jha -
A quick take on what prime time TV news talked about.

Decline in India’s Covid R0 and how effective is the ‘test, test, test’ mantra

ThePrint Team -
In episode 450 of #CutTheClutter, Shekhar Gupta explains if the 'test, test, test' mantra applies to India and analyses testing in different countries to investigate its effectiveness.

Pregnant women in hotspot districts nearing due date to undergo Covid-19 testing: ICMR

PTI -
The ICMR said testing should be done in health facilities where the women are expected to deliver and samples should be collected and transferred to testing facilities.

Covid-19 fight is a Test match, not a T20. Here’s what India needs to do to win

Manjunath Shankar -
India has started well with the lockdown, but now, the Modi govt needs to look beyond short-term gains and produce a comprehensive strategy for the long haul.

India’s large young population could actually make Covid herd immunity strategy work

Ari Altstedter -
The herd immunity strategy could result in less economic devastation and human suffering than restrictive lockdowns designed to stop the virus’s spread.

Indians buried even Pakistani Kargil soldiers, but now denying last rites to Covid victims

Samira Sood -
Families of a Padma Shri awardee in Punjab and two doctors in Chennai and Shillong had a traumatic time performing the last rites — as if Covid-19 has robbed us of all humanity.

India’s Covid deaths rise steadily but infection rate fluctuates in states: Data experts

Sandhya Ramesh -
Economists Shamika Ravi and Mudit Kapoor have been collating data on India's Covid-19 numbers to better understand the disease's trajectory in the country.

CII wants Modi govt to add more sectors to exempted list, remove criminal charge threat

Remya Nair -
The CII has submitted a series of suggestions to the government seeking changes to its guidelines that allowed certain industries to begin operations on 20 April.

Many deaths are ‘missing’, perhaps 28,000 of them, from official Covid-19 toll across world

Mohana Basu -
A study of mortality data across 11 countries shows the total number of deaths, irrespective of the cause, over the last month was much higher than usual.
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Opinion

Why Modi-Shah have failed to develop mass leaders in states the way Vajpayee-Advani did

+TFP D.K. Singh -
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.

Arikamedu is an ancient Indo-Roman trading port. There’s a reason you’ve never heard of it

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

Swenja Surminski -
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

Prabhakar Tamilarasu -
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.

National Interest

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

Shekhar Gupta -
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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