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Topic: COVID-19

Coronavirus or Covid-19 is an infectious disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. It is a viral disease that turned into a pandemic in early 2020. The first known case was recorded in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. Coronavirus has multiple variants such as Delta and Omicron, and its most common symptoms are fever, chills and sore throat.

The virus spreads through liquid particles when the infected person coughs, sneezes or breathes – it has a high multiplication rate. Therefore, the world had taken measures to quarantine or isolate those infected. While the disease can be mild and recoverable, those older or with underlying medical conditions are more likely to be adversely affected. The disease caused according to WHO estimates 3 million deaths in 2020.

Active Covid cases rise in top 3 high burden states, over 16 lakh Indians vaccinated

Mohana Basu -
ThePrint’s daily Covid tracker that brings you the numbers that matter — from total cases, tests done and recoveries to positivity rate and deaths.

Indians must have no confusion about how we reached impressive Covid herd immunity

Sanjiv Agarwal -
India’s masses didn’t have the luxury to ‘work from home’ and follow social distancing, but they might have silently built India’s herd immunity.

India’s top 100 billionaires earned Rs 13 lakh crore despite Covid hit — Oxfam report

Unnati Sharma -
Oxfam report says wealth of India’s top 100 billionaires increased enough during Covid that, if divided equally, it could translate to over Rs 94,000 each for 138 million of India’s poorest.

Can’t go back to classroom-only teaching, ‘blended learning’ is the future, say experts

Kritika Sharma -
In ThePrint's 'Safe & Sound' series, experts discuss how Covid has changed education, and the future of learning.

16 lakh healthcare workers have received Covid vaccine in 9 days

PTI -
The inoculation drive was launched on 16 January. Over three crore healthcare and frontline workers have been prioritised to receive the vaccine.

Seven ways AI can help govts transform public services

Rachel Kirkham -
Governments are starting to explore the potential of AI and can work with policy-makers, public servants and data scientists to fully realise its benefits.

One million Covid-19 vaccine doses administered in India in 6 days, says health ministry

PTI -
This count is higher than countries like the US and the UK. The UK took 18 days whereas USA took 10 days to reach the one million mark, the ministry said.

Gout drug reduces Covid death or hospitalisation risk by 21%, say Canadian researchers

Angana Chakrabarti -
A widely-available low-cost drug, colchicine has been used for decades to treat gout and Behçet's disease, an inflammatory disorder that affects different parts of the body.

Modi is not Teflon-coated, he is ‘cast in titanium’ — What Mood of the Nation poll suggests

ThePrint Team -
In episode 667 of #CutTheClutter, ThePrint's Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta talks about some interesting findings from the poll & what they mean for opposition parties.

India’s Covid R value dips to 0.90, Maharashtra sees major fall, but Kerala remains above 1

Angana Chakrabarti -
West Bengal, Rajasthan and Delhi saw an increase in their R values this week, while Maharashtra, UP, Karnataka saw a steady decline.
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Germany removes restrictions, India can now buy small arms from its firms

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Germany’s erstwhile Christian Democratic Union govt, led by Angela Merkel, prevented sale of small arms to police forces in states they perceived had ‘bad human rights record’.

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Frontrunner is letting the challenger define this poll campaign. Modi still hasn’t found a big theme

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A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.

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