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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.

After Odisha, Punjab extends coronavirus lockdown till 30 April

PTI -
In the past few days, Punjab has seen a spike in the number of coronavirus cases, pushing the total count to 132 cases and 11 deaths.

DRDO develops product to prevent spread of air droplets to doctors from Covid-19 patients

Amrita Nayak Dutta -
The product has been designed by two DRDO laboratories in Hyderabad and Chandigarh. The move comes at a time when many doctors are testing positive for the virus.

Delhi airport is working 24×7, operating 22 cargo flights per day for medical supplies

Unnati Sharma -
Approximately 19 lakh pieces of face masks, 2 lakh bottles of sanitisers and 1.5 lakh PPE kits have been brought to India by cargo planes at the Delhi airport.

MP’s growing Covid-19 crisis: Cases rising, govt paralysed after top officials test positive

Anup Dutta -
MP health department has registered at least 32 coronavirus cases because officials continued to attend meetings. Now CM & chief secretary are directly running operations.

Imphal designer couple Diana and Kelvin are making masks they give for free to hospitals, airports

Bismee Taskin -
Diana Leivon and husband Kelvin Ginminthang have been stitching masks from leftover fabric and giving them to hospitals and airport security staff.

UP acts, FIR lodged against village pradhan for isolation centre with just one Dettol soap

Samyak Pandey -
ThePrint had reported that the isolation centre in Pimpri-Shadipur village housed 20 migrant labourers who had to contend with one toilet, a bucket and a Dettol soap cut in two.

BCCI clears dues of centrally-contracted players, says won’t let anyone suffer

PTI -
BCCI reportedly paid the match fees and cleared dues of all those who played for India and India A at the end of the financial year.

Bombs, bullets fly as Covid-19 lockdown fails to end violence in ‘politically-charged’ Bengal

Madhuparna Das -
Nearly a dozen incidents of violence related to coronavirus have been reported across West Bengal. CM Mamata Banerjee asks for strict action against offenders.

250 Indians test positive for Covid-19 in Singapore: Indian High Commission

PTI -
Nearly 50% of the infected Indians stay in dormitories for foreign workers, which have emerged as the virus spreading points in the country.

Magic shows, PT, counselling — this Delhi shelter is taking special care of migrant workers

Bismee Taskin -
Nearly 300 migrant workers at Yamuna Sports Complex say shelter management has been kind to them, but a few kilometres away in the slums next to the Yamuna, it's a different story.
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Opinion

Gaza, Ukraine being fought on techno-battlefields. Indian military is 3 decades behind

Lt Gen H S Panag (retd) -
My assessment is that the Indian armed forces are adopting emerging technologies for incremental change and not transformation—which is the need of the hour.

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Economy

Even as SEBI lays down new curbs on F&O market, discount brokerages are changing business models

TCA Sharad Raghavan -
SEBI Tuesday unveiled rules to curtail retail participation in derivatives market. Options premia to be collected upfront from options buyer effective 1 Feb 2025.

Defence

‘No drone bombs or infiltration’, Army Chief says ‘battle of narratives’ must be controlled in Manipur

Smruti Deshpande -
Chief of Army Staff General Upendra Dwivedi says the Manipur conflict was triggered by a rumour and that the situation may be ‘stable today, but it is tense’.

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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