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Tuesday, October 8, 2024
TopicCOVID-19

Topic: COVID-19

Jharkhand imposes lockdown from 22-29 April, to mark it as ‘health safety week’

CM Hemant Soren said selected offices of the central & state govt and private sector have been exempted from the total shutdown while others will remain shut.

Haryana to test farmers protesting at borders for Covid, give them vaccines

Haryana Home Minister Anil Vij also asked migrant workers to not pay heed to any propaganda and asked them to continue to work like before.

Between ‘Covid is over’ and universal vaccination cheer, India lost sight of strategy

India won't achieve vaccination-assisted herd immunity by July end, the mortalities and serious hospitalisations need to be reduced.

‘Highly infectious’ double mutant strain was circulating in Uttarakhand even before Kumbh began

The National Centre for Disease Control has detected a total of six cases of various strains in Uttarakhand. Three of them belong to the double mutant strain.

Kejriwal appeals to people to stay home, says lockdown decision taken for people’s health

The Delhi CM had announced the lockdown, saying the health system was under extreme pressure due to a large number of Covid patients & might collapse if strict action was not taken.

Modi govt approves Rs 4,500-cr advance payment to help vaccine makers ramp up production

SII will supply 200 million doses and Bharat Biotech is to supply another 90 million doses to the government by July at a pre-agreed rate of Rs 150 per dose.

Why Punjab migrant farm labourers don’t want to leave despite Covid surge & lockdown fears

The 2020 lockdown and ensuing migrant exodus triggered much upheaval in Punjab as it came in the run-up to rabi marketing season and ahead of paddy sowing.

Decentralise Covid fight, don’t bury head in sand like ostrich. Be like a peacock

The time now is for a coherent and concerted response. ‘What went wrong’ and ‘why’ is an investigation that can be taken up later.

A second exodus, though smaller, shows why Mumbai’s migrant workers are still vulnerable

Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray declared a lockdown to contain the second Covid wave, triggering a second round of migrant exodus. But response could be hamstrung by lack of data.

‘Fearing Covid’, Indians are popping ivermectin, HCQ, dexamethasone — all self-prescribed

Doctors say consuming medicines not meant to be taken outside hospital settings can affect natural course of Covid treatment & lead to patients reporting additional side-effects.

On Camera

Why Modi-Shah have failed to develop mass leaders in states the way Vajpayee-Advani did

BJP had leaders like Modi, Chouhan, Raje, Raman Singh, BSY, and Dhumal who kept the party’s flame burning. Those promoted by Modi-Shah in the last 10 years fail to inspire confidence.

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.

‘Nightmare at Chennai Marina’: 4 dead, 96 hospitalised after pandemonium at packed IAF air show

Lakhs of people were stranded at beach in heat as crowd control measures apparently failed. At least 14 lakh people were in attendance though police had expected around 10 lakh.

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?