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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.

Delhi to Kerala — State response to Covid-19 makes it clear India needs a new health policy

Suchithra Menon C. -
The 123-year-old Epidemic Diseases Act isn’t good enough for a pandemic in the Information Age. India must revisit the National Health Bill that wasn’t passed.

Top US doctor uses ‘Pearl Habour moment’ to warn about Covid-19 deaths, here’s what it means

Kairvy Grewal -
US Surgeon General Jerome Adams says 'this is going to be our Pearl Harbour moment...only it’s not going to be localised... I want Americans to understand that'.

Covid-19 cluster management to geographic quarantine: What govt’s containment plan includes

ThePrint Team -
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare had released a detailed containment plan for large outbreaks as India's coronavirus cases continue rising by the hundreds.

Gasping for air, delusional and all alone – one Covid-19 survivor’s story

Paula Dwyer -
Coronavirus came after me with a vengeance. And I beat it. Now I’m fully recovered, after going through hell & learning about ability of human body to fight back.

UK’s coronavirus crisis has become much harder because Boris Johnson is in hospital

Therese Raphael -
Boris Johnson’s hospitalisation comes as the UK faces serious questions about managing Covid-19, PPE for doctors and the economic price of lockdowns.

Sleepless eyes, no roof over heads, a game of ludo: Snapshots from a silent Lucknow night

ThePrint Team -
ThePrint team travelled across the city of Lucknow to see how daily wage labourers are surviving amid the lockdown.

Boris Johnson to remain in hospital for ‘observation’

Tim Ross -
PM Boris Johnson has a persistent cough & fever and has been undergoing tests, but had a ‘comfortable’ night and is ‘in good spirits’.

Over 25,500 Tablighi Jamaat members and their contacts quarantined across India: MHA

PTI -
Joint Secretary Punya Salila Srivastava said that five villages in Haryana have been sealed, as members of the Islamic organisation had stayed there.

PM, MPs, ministers, President take 30% pay cut for a year to boost govt’s Covid-19 efforts

Moushumi Das Gupta -
MPLADS fund has been suspended for two years, and the money — amounting to approximately Rs 7,900 cr — will be given to the Consolidated Fund of India.

3-month moratorium on repaying loans to cooperative banks for farmers in Uttarakhand

PTI -
Announced on directions of CM Trivendra Singh Rawat, the moratorium is among the steps announced to give relief to people during the Covid-19 lockdown.
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You can’t ‘wish away’ China, India must balance economic & security considerations, says Sanjeev Sanyal

TCA Sharad Raghavan -
Sanyal, an economist & member of the Economic Advisory Council to PM, also suggests that if India is to import parts from China, why not allow Chinese companies to manufacture in India.

Defence

Compete, coexist, confront & contest: Army chief General Dwivedi says on dealing with China

Smruti Deshpande -
Referring to current situation, General Upendra Dwivedi says it is stable but not normal; instead, sensitive. He adds the diplomatic side can only come up with certain options.

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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