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Thursday, October 3, 2024
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Topic: COVID-19

1.8% India’s total population affected by Covid, 98% still vulnerable — govt warns

NITI Aayog member V K Paul said that India’s R-value for Covid is below 1 and assured that the pandemic curve is stabilising in many states.

Why Modi govt’s teflon-coating is peeling off, and no dignity for the dead in India

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Arvind Kejriwal asks Centre to cancel flight services with Singapore over new Covid strain

CM Kejriwal said the new virus strain, observed to be dangerous for kids, could reach Delhi in form of a third wave and urged Centre to work on vaccine alternatives for children.

Plasma therapy can be used in moderate Covid cases, says IMA after new govt guidelines

The govt has revised the clinical guidance for Covid treatment, dropping the off-label use of convalescent plasma as it was not found beneficial.

‘Gave duty foremost priority’: PM Modi lauds state, district officials’ fight against Covid

During an interaction with the district magistrates of 46 districts, Modi also said that continuous efforts are being made to ramp up Covid vaccine supply in a big way.

Onion prices could make you cry again, a surge is expected before Diwali

Govt agency officials are worried that Cyclone Tauktae and then monsoon rains will increase moisture content, making a large quantity of onions useless as buffer stock.

270 doctors across India succumbed to Covid in second wave of pandemic, says IMA

According to the Indian Medical Association, Bihar saw the maximum number of 78 deaths of medical practitioners, followed by Uttar Pradesh (37), Delhi (29) and Andhra Pradesh (22).

Why Bhagwat lecture wasn’t a ‘snub’ for Modi govt but had larger RSS message to fight Covid

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat highlighted 6 key points for Covid management, but only one, that administration was caught off guard, was highlighted and spun as snub for Modi govt.

Why Singapore’s lockdown is a smart combination of the blunt and the precise

Authorities are now scrambling to deploy a mix of scalpels and hammers to contain a recent outbreak. Mastering this balance will be the key to any economic recovery.

Entire medical system is ‘Ram bharose’ in UP small towns, villages — HC says on Covid mess

HC bench made the observation while taking into account death of a man in a Meerut hospital where doctors failed to identify him and the body was disposed of as unidentified.

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?