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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.

Govt plans to create ‘larger force’ to tackle Covid-19, online training to be launched

PTI -
The integrated government online training (iGOT) will have courses for doctors, nurses, paramedics, hygiene workers as well as NCC, NSS & Nehru Yuva Kendra.

Air pollution levels and Covid-19 mortality rate are linked, claims new Harvard study

Taran Deol -
Covid-19 patients in regions with a history of high air pollution are more likely to succumb to the disease, claims the new study by Harvard University.

Over 29 million hydroxychloroquine doses to fight Covid-19 bought from India, says Trump

PTI -
Over a phone call last week Donald Trump requested PM Modi to lift the hold on the American order of hydroxychloroquine, of which India is a major producer.

20 men, 1 bucket and a Dettol soap cut in two — life in quarantine for UP migrant labourers

Samyak Pandey -
There are 20 labourers lodged at the quarantine centre in Pimpri-Shadipur village, who say they are not being provided food by authorities and have to sleep on mattresses.

Papers suggest longer lockdown coming, Telegraph criticises Modi’s chloroquine U-turn

Angana Chakrabarti -
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.

India’s first drive-through Covid-19 test site in Delhi promises more tests and privacy

Angana Chakrabarti -
Dr Dangs Lab, one of the first private labs allowed to test for coronavirus, has operationalised a drive-through test site in Delhi’s Punjabi Bagh.

Call it a mistake, not conspiracy against India, say Muslim scholars on Tablighi Jamaat event

Fatima Khan -
Muslim scholars Arshad Madani, Ahmed Bukhari and Mahmood Madani condemn Tablighi meet, but also criticise what they call the 'communalisation of the pandemic'.

Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal to hold meeting with local MPs on coronavirus via video call

PTI -
The total number of Covid-19 cases in the national capital rose to 576 Tuesday, with 51 fresh cases and two deaths being reported in a day.

Total Covid-19 cases in Delhi reaches 576, death toll rises to 9

PTI -
Delhi Health Department said 51 fresh cases and two deaths were reported in a day, while 3,120 people are in quarantine at various govt facilities.

IAS officers upto joint secy level in central govt get blanket extension for ‘continuity’

Sanya Dhingra -
Unprecedented extension only applicable to deputy secretaries, directors & joint secretaries as govt wants to ensure continuity during its battle against the pandemic.
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Economy

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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

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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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