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Tuesday, November 5, 2024
TopicCovid-19 testing

Topic: Covid-19 testing

Anurag Kashyap, Kunal Kamra, others to auction awards, perform live to fund Covid testing kits

The move has found support from poet-lyricist Javed Akhtar, director Neeraj Ghaywan, singer Vishal Dadlani & more from entertainment industry.

Discrepancy in Delhi Covid data: Is Arvind Kejriwal govt being transparent enough?

Delhi health secretary Padmini Singla has highlighted the unusual trend of rising Covid cases in the national capital and decreasing number of containment zones.

Delhi violating ICMR, WHO norms by not Covid-testing the dead. But it’s not the only state

Experts are divided on testing dead bodies for Covid but say classification of death is important. West Bengal is another state that is not testing patients after death.

US firm Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine candidate shows ‘potential’ in first phase of trials

Phase 1 of the trials involved 45 healthy volunteers aged 18-55 yrs. Moderna says interim data shows the vaccine candidate 'has the potential to prevent Covid-19 disease'.

What govt wants in lockdown 4 — Aarogya Setu app in every family, cop in surveillance teams

In a note to states, the Centre has asked for reorganisation of teams as it has been facing trouble in carrying out house-to-house surveillance.

With Covid cases nearing a lakh, India to check prevalence of ‘asymptomatic’ carriers

The ICMR will conduct a 'serosurvey' across red, orange and green zones. The results of the study could see a re-designation of districts under the three zones.

ICMR to fast-track WHO’s Solidarity trial roll-out in India, test 4 treatments for Covid

The Solidarity trial is an international clinical trial launched on 18 March by WHO to compare untested treatment options for Covid-19.

Renu Kohli calls labour reforms a caricature, Shyam Saran on China’s move to digital money

Today’s political, economic & strategic punditry from Prashant Bhushan, Shyam Agarwal, Shyam Saran, R. Jagannathan and more.

From India to S. Korea, social stigma & harassment are hurting Asia’s virus testing efforts

Harassment and prejudice could undermine the goals of all the disclosure about Covid-19 cases in the first place: Containing community spread.

ICMR issues new guidelines to record Covid deaths, says this will help build robust data

The new guidelines are an attempt to streamline the Covid mortality surveillance in the country.

On Camera

Trudeau is nursing snakes in his own backyard. Misguided Sikhs in Canada are losing the plot

By turning a blind eye to the snakes in his own backyard, Trudeau is setting the stage for a disaster of epic proportions for his country, his people, and the world at large.

Watch CutTheClutter: Flattening INR-USD rate, and debate on pros and cons of a ‘strong’ rupee

In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.

India carries out 1st patrol in Depsang since disengagement with China, to take things ‘slow’

While there are patrolling points (PP) 10, 11, 12, 12A and 13 in the Depsang Plains, the patrol in the region Monday was carried out to only one point as decided by India and China.

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.