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Tuesday, November 5, 2024
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Topic: Covid-19 testing

Modelling, testing, sero survey, vaccine — 4 lessons India learnt from 4 months of Covid

Each month since the Covid lockdown began in March has brought about a change in the priorities and focus of India’s disease control strategy.

Experts back Delhi’s focus on antigen tests for Covid, call it best way to utilise resources

Concerns have been raised that asymptomatic cases are being missed in Delhi, but Deputy CM Manish Sisodia says antigen tests have helped curb spread of Covid.

India records more than 61,000 new Covid-19 cases and over 900 deaths in 24 hours

Total casualties due to Covid were more than 42,500, while total cases crossed 20.8 lakh, as the national tally rose by more than 50,000 for the 10th day in a row.

India’s Covid recovery rate rises to 67.19%, fatality rate at 2.09%

As per government data, the active cases have reduced to 5,86,244 and comprise 30.72 per cent of the total Covid-19 caseload due to record highest daily recoveries.

Activists, experts seek all deaths data since 2018 to assess true impact of Covid

The demand has been made in an open letter by a group of over 230 public health professionals, epidemiologists and activists, including Gautam Menon, Giridhar R. Babu, and T. Jacob John.

Why residents of Ahmedabad have become sceptical about testing for Covid-19

In May, central Ahmedabad had witnessed a spike in cases. But now, the outbreak has spread to the western parts, which have the maximum number of containment zones.

How India increased its Covid testing capacity from 52 labs to over 1,300 in 4 months

As on 27 July, only 152 of India’s 739 districts — about 20% — didn’t have Covid-19 testing labs, thanks to a decade-old ICMR scheme.

After Delhi HC questions lower RT-PCR testing, DMs say fewer people are coming forward

Amid Delhi’s declining daily Covid-19 numbers, HC pointed out that only about 6,000 RT-PCR tests are being conducted per day, as against a capacity of 11,000.

Maharashtra doubles Covid testing in July as it looks to cut record positivity, death rates

Maharashtra govt ramped up testing to nearly 20 lakh in less than a month by giving district officials targets and democratising the regime under a single department.

Eye on 10 lakh tests a day, PM Modi to inaugurate 3 new high throughput Covid labs tomorrow

The three laboratories are in three ICMR institutes at Mumbai, Kolkata and Noida. India has ordered 8 high throughput Covid testing machines from a Swiss company.

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.

As IDF unveils robotic combat task force, Israeli maker says open to working with India

Using this technology, IDF carried out fully robotic combat missions, drastically reducing risk to Israeli troops. The robotic combat task force also enhanced situational awareness.

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.