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Friday, October 4, 2024
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Topic: COVID-19

Too many cooks? 15 committees, dozens of experts behind India’s fumbling Covid response

Multiple committees — some formed at the start of the pandemic, and one predating it — are overseeing India's Covid response on many fronts, from vaccines to medical infra.

Carrying on accepting Modi now means accepting cruelty

Suggesting that the pandemic is the work of an ‘unseen enemy’ that the government is hapless against is but an admission that the State has failed.

Covid is airborne, scientists say. WHO and CDC are beginning to agree

Cleaner indoor air won’t just fight Covid, it will minimise the risk of catching flu and other respiratory infections, researchers said in a study in the journal Science Friday.

Why the suspicion on China’s Wuhan lab virus is growing. Read these new analyses

An article in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and a paper by Begin Sadat Centre for Strategic Studies present new facts on the coronavirus origin.

Cost of vaccination will hurt already creaking budgets of Indian states

States will have to foot about Rs 36,640 crore or more in vaccination costs after the Modi government suddenly made them responsible for inoculating most adults from 1 May.

9,440 MT of liquid medical oxygen delivered across India on Oxygen Express trains

150 Oxygen Express trains have completed their journey so far and brought relief to various states like Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.

Covaxin stock for those aged above 45 to last only one day, says Delhi AAP MLA Atishi

According to the Aam Aadmi Party legislator, 1.18 lakh people in Delhi were vaccinated on 15 May and around 10.5 lakh people have taken both vaccine doses so far.

Amazon, Greenko up supply of oxygen concentrators as India struggles with shortage

The first batch of 1,000 oxygen concentrators have landed and are available for purchase on Amazon while the rest are expected in the second half of May.

India’s oil demand worsens as country remains under local lockdowns to battle Covid

The plunge in consumption at the world’s third-biggest crude consumer will weigh on sentiment on oil prices and damp expectations for a strong global demand rebound in the summer.

Delhi records 6,456 new Covid cases, 262 deaths in a day, positivity rate drops to 10.40%

Delhi has recorded less than 10,000 cases for the third consecutive day. However, the smaller number of new cases was due to relatively fewer tests, 62,059, conducted Saturday.

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?