scorecardresearch
Tuesday, October 8, 2024
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.

How to slow down COVID-19 — this is the only way to ‘flatten the curve’ of coronavirus spread

Sandhya Ramesh -
The British way of letting the coronavirus spread won’t get us anywhere. Italy's Lodi and South Korea have shown us what can be effective, and India must follow suit.

Sensex crashes 1,709 points, Nifty plummets below 8,500 mark

PTI -
The market plunged on Wednesday, despite talks of stimulus measures to cushion economic blow due to COVID-19 pandemic.

Should India’s private healthcare join COVID-19 fight or risks becoming a profit venture?

ThePrint Team -
The Narendra Modi government will allow accredited private labs to test for the novel coronavirus to increase India’s testing capacity.

Advisory issued over racial remarks against Northeast Indians in wake of coronavirus

PTI -
Union Minister Kiren Rijiju said the racial remarks are a consequences of cultural ignorance, prejudice & lack of understanding.

276 Indians infected with coronavirus abroad, 255 among them in Iran: MEA

PTI -
The External Affairs Ministry reported that there are 12 cases in UAE, five in Italy, and one each in Hong Kong, Kuwait, Rwanda and Sri Lanka.

RSS mouthpiece turns to Swami Vivekananda’s Calcutta ‘Plague Manifesto’ to fight COVID-19

Shanker Arnimesh -
Two editorials, published in RSS mouthpiece Organiser, quotes Swami Vivekananda’s ‘Plague Manifesto’, which gave guidelines for people to follow during the outbreak.

Noida resident tests positive for coronavirus, confirmed cases in district climb to 4

PTI -
The patient had recently been to Indonesia. His house along with his neighbours' are being sanitised, officials said.

Vaishno Devi yatra closed, all interstate buses banned in J&K to stop coronavirus spread

PTI -
Udhampur district administration has suspended all modes of public transport, while all public parks in Poonch district have been closed.

This is how Shaheen Bagh plans to continue its anti-CAA protest despite coronavirus scare

Fatima Khan -
Shaheen Bagh protestors have been demonstrating against CAA, NRC since December and despite police asking them to evacuate in view of coronavirus crisis, they have refused.

Vaccine trials to contact tracing app — here are 5 global developments on COVID-19 front

Mohana Basu -
From potential vaccines to origins of the novel coronavirus, ThePrint brings you the top research developments from across the world.
1...973974975...1,000Page 974 of 1,000

On Camera

YourTurn

Opinion

Why Modi-Shah have failed to develop mass leaders in states the way Vajpayee-Advani did

+TFP D.K. Singh -
BJP had leaders like Modi, Chouhan, Raje, Raman Singh, BSY, and Dhumal who kept the party’s flame burning. Those promoted by Modi-Shah in the last 10 years fail to inspire confidence.

Arikamedu is an ancient Indo-Roman trading port. There’s a reason you’ve never heard of it

Beijing is concerned about anti-China sentiment in India. New Delhi is focused on border

+TFP

Economy

How businesses can become more resilient to the physical impacts of climate change

Swenja Surminski -
Extreme weather events have impacted 50% of corporate respondents to a recent survey. This underlines the importance of significant action now to increase climate resilience.

Defence

‘Nightmare at Chennai Marina’: 4 dead, 96 hospitalised after pandemonium at packed IAF air show

Prabhakar Tamilarasu -
Lakhs of people were stranded at beach in heat as crowd control measures apparently failed. At least 14 lakh people were in attendance though police had expected around 10 lakh.

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?

Follow us

Copyright © 2024 Printline Media Pvt. Ltd. All rights reserved.