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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.

India is fighting Covid-19 like Liberia fought the Ebola outbreak

Anju Dwivedi -
Community based organisations have mounted Covid-19 responses by supporting quarantine facilities and providing hygiene kits in their areas.

India announced lockdown the same time as South Africa but has over 7 times new cases since

Sandhya Ramesh -
While the two countries are not comparable, owing to population demographic variations, South Africa has conducted 1934 Covid-19 tests per million compared to India's 291.

Newborn tests positive for coronavirus in Rajasthan’s Nagaur

PTI -
The newborn's parents and other family members are Covid-19 patients, too, Nagaur chief medical and health officer Dr Sukumar Kashyap said.

Small pharmacies to private GPs: India must engage informal economies in fighting coronavirus

Priya Balasubramaniam -
Indian cities have shown resilience in overcoming challenges. Yet, resilience has not always resulted in improving urban governance and improving lives of urban poor.

Centre asks states, UTs to strictly follow Covid-19 lockdown measures, not dilute them

PTI -
Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla said some states and UTs are issuing orders allowing activities which have not been allowed as per the guidelines issued by the home ministry.

Inside story of how Mercedes F1 and academics fast-tracked life-saving breathing aid in UK

Clare Elwell -
It’s not easy for manufacturers to quickly make huge numbers of extra ventilators during coronavirus crisis. But that is where collaboration can help.

India’s one lesson from Covid crisis and work-from-home: How to build a real smart city

Rama Lakshmi -
The work-from-home template offers a way for India to re-imagine its model of urbanisation. For that, it must stop aping Western cities’ models from a century ago.

These 10 cities have over half of India’s Covid-19 cases. Ahmedabad, Indore among top 5

Swagata Yadavar -
The 10 cities account for 8,958 of total 17,265 cases in India as of Monday. Most of the 170 districts identified as hotspots across the country are in these cities.

Serious Covid-19 situation in Mumbai, Pune, Indore, Jaipur, Kolkata: Home Ministry

PTI -
The Union home ministry noted several incidents of violence against healthcare workers, violation of social distancing norms & movement of vehicles in urban areas.

Papers note govt’s U-turn on curbs, Mint’s reality check, Mirror on BMC’s ‘almost’ Wuhan

Revathi Krishnan -
A round-up of the most important reports in major newspapers around the country – from TOI and HT, Express and The Hindu to The Telegraph, Mumbai Mirror and The Tribune, as well as top financial dailies.
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Opinion

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

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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