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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.

Corona effect: Railways’ ‘secret’ is out, gaumutra sanitiser ‘Republic of Kailaasa’ happy

Shubhangi Misra -
The most politically correct and incorrect tweets of the day from across the political spectrum.

LIC to stock market rescue, from corona to coronary & government’s social distancing

Shubhangi Misra -
The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint

Skill centres in Delhi are making 500 masks a day to meet demand amid coronavirus crisis

Soniya Agrawal -
Eight centres under the skill development and entrepreneurship ministry have started producing cloth masks in Delhi-NCR to meet the growing demand.

WHO didn’t say vegetarians haven’t contracted coronavirus, viral Twitter post is misleading

Angana Chakrabarti -
The viral Twitter post also stated the entire world is now doing ‘namaste’, and that the significance of cow urine and tulsi is now being understood.

Coronavirus can spread even before infected people show symptoms, new study finds

Mohana Basu -
A team of researchers from four countries have found that more than 10% of patients contracted the coronavirus from people with no symptoms.

New paper-based test developed by MIT researchers claims to detect coronavirus in 30 mins

Mohana Basu -
The test developed by MIT start-up E25Bio is conducted using paper strips, which show a coloured spot if a patient’s sample has the novel coronavirus.

India needs to ramp up COVID-19 testing, learn from South Korea & avoid US’ mistakes

Manjunath Shankar -
The key is for India to expand its laboratory capacity — the turnaround time for test results should be brought down to less than six hours.

SAARC meeting on COVID confirmed 2 things – Pakistan is petty and India isn’t as big as China

Abhijit Iyer-Mitra -
Pakistan’s petty behaviour on SAARC conference was a sign it doesn’t take coronavirus seriously. But India’s contribution of $10 million is also a pittance.

Yogi govt’s ordinance and defiance on posters disregard civil liberties and privacy

ThePrint Team -
ThePrint view on the most important issues, instantly.

‘Listen to experts, ignore morons’ — Schwarzenegger for social distancing to beat COVID-19

Revathi Krishnan -
A video, which notched over 3 mn views within hours, shows Arnold Schwarzenegger feeding his pet ponies as he asks people to stay inside their homes.
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CEC Gyanesh Kumar isn’t interested in convincing the people of India

+TFP Vir Sanghvi -
The Election Commission sees no reason to take the Opposition's 'vote chori' complaints seriously. 'How dare you?' is not how a sincere and honest guardian of the Constitution would respond.

India can’t fight Trump tariffs with emotion. Smart talks, sector relief, reforms are key

Yudhishtira to Bhairava cherished dogs. It’s about our civilisational values

Economy

Amid Trump’s tariff bombs, India’s business with America surged while imports from Russia dipped 10%

Keshav Padmanabhan -
As India-Russia trade decreases, India's April-July exports to the US this year increased by 21% compared to last year & imports from the US grew by 12%.

Defence

China pushes for separation of border issue from larger bilateral ties at 24th round of talks with India

Keshav Padmanabhan -
New Delhi: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi Tuesday pushed for a “dual-track” progress for ties with India, separating economic ties from the boundary question,...

National Interest

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Shekhar Gupta -
Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?

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