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Tuesday, October 8, 2024
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Topic: COVID-19

Delhi govt urges railways to arrange 5,000 beds by deploying Covid-care coaches at 2 stations

In a letter to Railway Board Chairman, the Delhi Chief Secretary said facilities at govt & private hospitals are strained and there's an urgent need for more Covid bed facilities.

Union minister VK Singh tags DM on constituent’s plea for bed, draws ire on social media

Former Army chief’s tweet leads many to question state of Covid affairs in UP, where Ghaziabad ‘MP has to launch social media appeal for assistance in own constituency’.

Declare Covid is in ‘community transmission’, save lives: Delhi Health Minister tells Centre

Satyendar Jain had made the request last June too, and reiterated it in a meeting chaired by Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan amid Covid surge across India.

North Delhi mayor claims ‘more Covid deaths’ took place than reported by Kejriwal govt

Mayor Jai Prakash of the BJP says official data showed 141 Covid deaths on 16 April but municipal records showed 193 bodies were cremated or buried.

JEE-Mains exam scheduled for 27-30 April postponed due to Covid surge

National Testing Agency says it will reschedule the engineering entrance exam and inform aspirants at least 15 days in advance.

Every 4th Covid sample tested in Delhi found positive, city adds 24,375 new cases in a day

National capital also registers 167 deaths, taking overall toll to 11,960. Total number of cases since beginning of Covid pandemic stands at 8,27,998.

How pandemic fatigue led India to squander a chance to beat Covid while it was down

Delayed action on shoring up vaccines, and India’s return to pre-pandemic normal with a vengeance have been seen as signs of fatigue as well as a level of complacence.

In Chhattisgarh’s Raipur, hospitals are running out of beds as Covid cases surge

As Chhattisgarh sees surge in Covid cases, state's capital Raipur has been the highest contributor with over 24,000 active cases and 1,492 deaths so far.

Of exams, Modi’s rallies & lack of medical infrastructure in the Covid 2nd wave

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

Hospitals turning away Covid patients despite bed availability will face action — Sisodia

Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, who is also the nodal minister of the Delhi government for Covid-19, added that no patient should be denied treatment.

On Camera

India’s diplomacy in the Indo-Pacific has an economic hole. Fill it with trade, investment

Modi govt has made economic diplomacy a key part of its engagement with US, Quad, and others. Yet, India’s economic linkages in Indo-Pacific region remain underdeveloped.

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?