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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.

Kids, Covid and Delta variant: What we know and what we don’t

Sam Fazeli -
Ways to keep children safe in school include improved ventilation, using CO2 monitors to assess how stale the air is, wearing masks and modulating class sizes.

Need some sort of understanding over vaccination certificates, not vaccines, Jaishankar says

PTI -
External Affairs Minister Jaishankar said he saw the issue of foreign travel as a challenge because some countries 'will try to get across a viewpoint that their vaccines are a must'.

Govt ready to do everything to revive & support economic growth, says Nirmala Sitharaman

PTI -
Speaking at the CII Annual Meeting, Sitharaman said indicators suggested that economy is buoyant and recovery is taking place after lifting of Covid restrictions by states.

Difficult to ascertain oxygen-related deaths without probe, Sisodia writes to Mandaviya

PTI -
Deputy CM Manish Sisodia claimed the Centre didn't allow Delhi govt to form a committee to probe oxygen-related deaths that happened during the second Covid wave.

Moderna’s mRNA vaccine safe & effective in teens, US clinical trial findings show

Mohana Basu -
Among the 2,489 participants who received the mRNA-1273 vaccine, the most common adverse reactions included pain in the injection site, headache and fatigue.

Chinese papers quote Swiss biologist to support Covid origin study, embassy says he doesn’t exist

Unnati Sharma -
The Swiss embassy said it has no registry of any citizen named Edwards Wilson, who has been quoted by several Chinese papers on reports about the origin of coronavirus.

Covid cases in Southeast Asia plateaued over past month as India’s tally remained stable: WHO

PTI -
South-East Asia Region reported over 799,000 new cases, a 5% decrease from last week, however, some countries in the Region continue to report a rise, including Sri Lanka, Thailand.

India logs 41,195 new Covid infections in last 24 hours, active cases at 3,87,987

PTI -
The daily positivity rate was recorded at 1.94%. It has been less than 3% for the last 17 days, the ministry said, adding the weekly positivity rate was recorded at 2.23%.

At least 1.2L died in Telangana in 2020, RTI reply finds. That’s double the average from 2016-19

Rishika Sadam -
RTI reply from citizen helpline MeeSeva suggests potential Covid death undercounting in Telangana. State doesn’t call it a Covid death if patient has comorbidities. 

Maharashtra allows malls, restaurants to operate till 10pm with 50% capacity from 15 August

PTI -
State Health Minister Rajesh Tope said spas and gyms will also be allowed to function on the condition that the entire staff has taken both doses of the Covid-19 vaccine.
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Why the US Congress put its foot down on releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files

Bloomberg News -
The US House has effectively drawn a line in the sand and approved the release of the Epstein files despite President Trump's efforts to stop it from happening.

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Economy

At Charcha 2025: Local entrepreneurship, not just big IT, will drive next wave of distributed AI work

Mrinalini Dhyani -
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Defence

Drone manufacturer ideaForge wins orders worth over Rs 100 crore from Army

Snehesh Alex Philip -
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National Interest

INDIA has a Congress-sized hole. And the fix begins with a little humility

Shekhar Gupta -
Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.

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