Dr Anurag Agrawal, director, Institute of Genomic and Integrative Biology, also says it’s absolutely imperative that the government prepares for a third wave.
Health Minister K. Sudhakar says focus is on 'targeted testing'. In villages, doctors say, this has meant people approaching hospitals when their SPO2 levels have already reach 'alarming level'.
In Madhya Pradesh’s Panna, a tribal-majority district, villagers say they ‘recovered from Covid on our own’. Now they don’t want vaccine, say would rather die from virus than the needle.
Vaccine hesitancy in the Muslim community has little to do with faith as religious scholars have backed Covid vaccination drive. Authorities in Bihar attribute it to misinformation & illiteracy.
The state-run Mandya Institute of Medical Sciences is facing staff shortage, so family members of Covid patients have doubled up as attendants, even sleeping in the Covid ward.
ThePrint spent the entire day of 17 May at two large crematoriums and three Muslim burial grounds in Vijaywada and counted at least 36 Covid patients being laid to rest.
Just 20,269 people, in what the govt classifies as the ‘other’ category, have got vaccinated as of 17 May in a population of at least 4.87 lakh transgenders in the country.
In India, with nearly every household owning gold jewellery in some quantity, gold loans are a preferred option at a time of widespread unemployment and loss of income.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has no intention of being drawn into another attritional war with Hezbollah. His commanders they are unlikely to win.
Under this model, battery is provided to EV owners on a subscription basis or lease. With more people open to buying EV cars, the lower upfront cost could likely drive wider acceptance.
The armoured platform is India's first amphibious infantry combat wheeled vehicle. Last year, the Royal Moroccan Armed Forces had procured 90 military trucks from the Tata Group.
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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