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.
SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.
The 2018 contract with Russia for 5 S-400 systems had a follow-on clause for 5 more. S-400 was described as a 'game-changer' for shooting down 5 Pakistan fighter jets during Op Sindoor.
What Munir has achieved with Trump is a return to normal, ironing out the post-Abbottabad crease. The White House picture gives us insight into how Pakistan survives, occasionally thrives and thinks.
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