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.

Covid vaccination for children, 12-14 years, to begin this week

ThePrint Team - March 14, 2022

Union minister says co-morbidity clause for senior citizens getting booster doses will be removed.

Govt, scientists, people — who gets to decide when Covid is over? Answer isn’t obvious

Ruth Ogden - March 12, 2022

There's a possibility of widening inequality, as some feel they can return to ‘normality’, while others feel the endpoint lies in the future.

Govt calls Lancet report on excess Covid deaths in India ‘speculative & misinformed’

PTI - March 11, 2022

The documented deaths due to Covid in India between January 2020 and December 2021 were around 4,89,000. But the study estimated cumulative excess deaths eight times higher at 4.07 million.

Covid-19: Omicron fuels virus spread in China, Ukraine grapples with oxygen shortage

Tenzin Zompa - March 9, 2022

ThePrint brings you some important global stories on the coronavirus pandemic.

Persisting with masks after vaccination has major economic, health benefits, Lancet study says

Abantika Ghosh - March 9, 2022

Face mask use in public indoor spaces for at least 2 weeks after achieving 70% vaccination coverage reduces hospitalisation and deaths, the study says.

India’s Covid R value at all-time low of 0.55, Bengal records lowest infection rate

Mohana Basu - February 28, 2022

Researchers, however, have noted that in some states like Maharashtra and Delhi, the R value has seen a marginal rise.

Covid-19 cost 10 million people their jobs in creative industries. Here’s how to protect them

Kayleigh Bateman - February 27, 2022

A new report from UNESCO highlights that about $750 billion was wiped off the value of the global cultural and creative industries during the pandemic.

Eight changes the world needs to make to live with Covid

Christina Pagel - February 27, 2022

In short, the world pre-2020 no longer exists – we may want it to, but it just doesn’t. So here's a snapshot of life post-Covid.

Covid-19 can be more deadly in some places. No mutations, the culprit’s in the air

Johnny Wood - February 26, 2022

Scientific evidence is linking immune systems weakened by air pollution to an increased threat from Covid-19. But the damage doesn’t stop there.

India’s cumulative Covid vaccination coverage exceeds 177.17 crore

ANI - February 26, 2022

23,598 patients have recovered in the last 24 hours and the cumulative tally of recovered patients is now at 4,22,70,482, according to the health ministry.

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