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Topic: COVID-19

Polling for last phase of West Bengal assembly elections begins amid Covid spike

Long queues were seen outside most polling booths since early morning. On Wednesday, the state registered its highest single-day spike of 17,207 Covid cases.

DD News is Covid ‘positive’. It shows a sanitised version of the pandemic

If you watch DD News, you will not feel “the sense of abandonment”, as BBC World termed it, of a people “left to do what the government should have done”.

Why ‘98% of oximeters in Indian market are Made-in-China’ but buyers don’t care

India has been reporting over 3 lakh Covid cases daily over past few days, leading to massive demand for items like pulse oximeters.

Modi govt holds out on Beijing offer for Covid help, but no trade bar on private firms

Chinese government has offered to help India as it grapples with a devastating second Covid wave, which has seen the country record over 3 lakh cases daily for a week.

Tocilizumab is nowhere to be found, and no one seems to know of next availability

States like Delhi, Maharashtra, Chandigarh, Kerala and Chhattisgarh have complained of acute shortage of tocilizumab. The drug is used to treat Covid and rheumatoid arthritis.

Tejas aircraft tech comes in aid of oxygen-starved Indian cities. This is how it works

The tech is an offshoot of On-Board Oxygen Generation System project for medical grade oxygen generation on board Tejas. India is the 4th country to develop this.

In 2020, I battled the pandemic and myself. Now I am forced to do it all over again

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

Once labelled ‘seditious’, social media toolkits are now saving hundreds of Covid patients

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

India registers over 3.60 lakh new Covid cases, 3,293 deaths in a day

The total death toll due to coronavirus crossed 2 lakh Tuesday while the Covid recovery rate further dropped to 82.33%.

How this Surat govt hospital cut Covid patients’ admission wait to 15 minutes from 5 hours

The New Civil Hospital of Surat has devised a system that allows it to get patients admitted within minutes of arrival. This wasn’t the case until days ago.

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?