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Monday, October 7, 2024
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Topic: COVID-19

9 people test positive for Omicron variant of Covid-19 in Jaipur

Those infected include four members of a family who had recently returned from South Africa and five others.

Delhi reports first case of Omicron variant

A 37-year-old man who arrived in Delhi from Tanzania has tested positive, making it the first case of Omicron variant in the national capital and the fifth in the country.

India registers 2,796 deaths as Bihar reconciles Covid data

New Delhi: India saw a single-day rise of 2,796 fatalities with Bihar carrying out a reconciliation exercise of its Covid data, pushing the country's...

4th case of Omicron in India detected in Maharashtra

The patient is a 33-year-old man, who arrived in Delhi from South Africa on 23 November, and had given his samples for Covid testing at the Delhi airport. He later flew to Mumbai.

Take necessary steps as Covid cases rising in many districts, Centre tells 6 states

Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan has written to Kerala, Jammu and Kashmir, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Odisha and Mizoram over the concerning rise in Covid cases.

Gujarat man tests positive for Omicron after returning from Zimbabwe, 3rd case in India

The sample of a 72-year-old man from Jamnagar in Gujarat was sent for genome sequencing after he tested positive for Covid Thursday.

India’s Covid R remains steady at 0.94, but several states now have values over 1

Among major states, Telangana, Odisha, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka and Mizoram all have R values above 1.

The Omicron variant is dominating the headlines. World leaders start preparing

Clarity on the implications of Omicron will not arrive for a few weeks. Until then, uncertainty risks paralysing leaders and their organisations.

A virus evolution expert explains Omicron and its 50 mutations

It is too early to say if the omicron variant is fitter than delta or if it will become dominant.

Parliamentary panel recommends evaluation of vaccines in view of Omicron Covid variant

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health Friday also recommended that the government should conduct more research and examine the need of administering vaccine booster doses.

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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?