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Topic: COVID-19

A look at Covid Ground Zero through a millennial doctor’s eyes

Campus Voice is an initiative by ThePrint where young Indians get an opportunity to express their opinions on a prevalent issue.

We’ve all suffered in this pandemic, cut yourself some slack & do what you love

Campus Voice is an initiative by ThePrint where young Indians get an opportunity to express their opinions on a prevalent issue.

UP Revenue Minister Vijay Kashyap dies of Covid, 3rd minister from state to succumb to virus

Last year, UP ministers Kamal Rani Varun and Chetan Chauhan died after testing positive for the coronavirus.

Vaccines being used in US effective against Covid strain detected in India, Dr Fauci says

The B.1.617 Covid variant, first identified in India last year, has been classified as a 'variant of concern' at the global level by WHO.

How Mumbai did a better job than Delhi in fighting the second wave of Covid

Mumbai has reported 2,784 Covid deaths since 1 March, around a fourth of the deaths in New Delhi. Supreme Court has suggested aspects of Mumbai’s model could be adopted elsewhere.

7 leaders dead: Angry MP political families ask if postponing polls would’ve ‘shaken democracy’

Top BJP and Congress politicians campaigned in Damoh for 17 April bypoll, even as Covid cases surged. Seven leaders died, while others lost family members.

Delhi’s Covid war room is ready, but it’s of little help yet with no real-time updates

Kejriwal government has launched an Integrated Command & Control Centre. But it neither has real-time data, nor is its dashboard accessible to the public yet.

Why India finally scrapped plasma as Covid treatment, 7 months after ICMR said it doesn’t work

ICMR chief Dr Balram Bhargava had revealed plans to take plasma therapy off the possible treatments’ list in October, but Indians kept scrambling to arrange it.

Prepare for third wave, keep stocks of key Covid drugs ready, Modi govt tells pharma firms

Modi government tells companies to boost the production of liposomal amphotericin, which is being used to treat black fungus infections.

Never exported vaccine at cost of people in India, Serum Institute says

SII also said that the vaccines were exported earlier in January since a large stockpile of doses were left, and the country's number of Covid cases were at an all-time low.

On Camera

Gaza, Ukraine being fought on techno-battlefields. Indian military is 3 decades behind

My assessment is that the Indian armed forces are adopting emerging technologies for incremental change and not transformation—which is the need of the hour.

Even as SEBI lays down new curbs on F&O market, discount brokerages are changing business models

SEBI Tuesday unveiled rules to curtail retail participation in derivatives market. Options premia to be collected upfront from options buyer effective 1 Feb 2025.

‘No drone bombs or infiltration’, Army Chief says ‘battle of narratives’ must be controlled in Manipur

Chief of Army Staff General Upendra Dwivedi says the Manipur conflict was triggered by a rumour and that the situation may be ‘stable today, but it is tense’.

Islam doesn’t kill democracy. The army-Islam combo does

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?