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Topic: COVID-19

UN says its agencies procuring oxygen concentrators, Covid testing machines for India

UN spokesperson Farhan Haq made the comments Wednesday, a day after saying that India declined its offer of assistance from an integrated supply chain to combat the pandemic.

Huge concern that Covid hit UP rural areas where medical infra is inadequate, minister says

UP cabinet minister Sidharth Nath Singh tells ThePrint state always had shortage of medical infrastructure and Covid pandemic has overwhelmed the existing resources.

If you claim India’s Covid death toll is 2x govt figure, it’s understandable. But not 10x

Media reports from cremation sites claiming the central and state govts are hiding Covid deaths might be effective in setting a narrative, but they don't pass muster.

First MP oxygen plant should’ve been up by now. But it’s just a heap of sand and stones

Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan laid the foundation stone for Inox’s Rs 150 crore private oxygen plant in October 2020, with a promise to make it operational in 6 months.

IPL or Netflix, both are entertainment. Virtue signalling is anti-sport

ThePrint view on the most important issues, instantly.

How India’s oxygen crisis has hit its shipbreaking industry, one of the world’s largest

Apart from slowdown in breaking aging freighters, diversion of oxygen has also led to Maruti Suzuki shutting its plant for maintenance and may lead to steel output seeing a decline.

India adds 3.7 lakh new Covid infections, 3,645 deaths in a day, active cases cross 30 lakh

The national Covid recovery rate has further dropped to 82.10% and the total death toll increased to 2,04,832.

Not all doctors think putting medical, nursing students on Covid duty is practical. Here’s why

Top cardiac surgeon Dr Devi Shetty suggested enlisting final year medical & nursing students to take care of Covid patients, predicting an extreme shortage of nurses and doctors soon.

In Pakistan, Bajwa’s iftar dinner is trending. No Covid questions for Imran

Govt’s negligence towards vaccine procurement on one hand, and hesitancy among people on the other — that’s where Pakistan stands today.

What caused rural Jaunpur’s Covid surge? UP govt suspects 1 lakh carriers

According to the district health bulletin, as of 27 April, Jaunpur had 5,000 active Covid cases. The figure was 867 on 11 April.

On Camera

Make it a Fundamental Right of every religionist to propagate, convert: TT Krishnamachari

On 6 December 1948, TT Krishnamachari spoke in the Constituent Assembly during a debate on Article 19, supporting it as it is, including how it's framed in the matter of religion.

How businesses can become more resilient to the physical impacts of climate change

Extreme weather events have impacted 50% of corporate respondents to a recent survey. This underlines the importance of significant action now to increase climate resilience.

Iran’s Shahab-3, India’s Agni-1 to US’s Minuteman III—ballistic missile arsenals, who has what

Iran used Shahab-3, along with Fattah-1 hypersonic missiles, to attack Israel after the killing of Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah in air strikes on Lebanon's Beirut.

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?