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Saturday, October 5, 2024
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Topic: COVID-19

Drones are delivering PPE and test samples to clinics in Covid-hit Africa

China used drones to disinfect streets and Chile used them to supply medicine to small communities. Now Africa is using them too.

Cases of children with Covid far fewer, but significantly threaten world’s ability to reopen

As countries weigh reopening economies — along with their schools — new research suggests virus transmission via children could worsen the pandemic.

Why Air Force won’t be a part of India’s massive Covid evacuation for now

India plans to bring home over 2 lakh Indians stranded abroad due to the coronavirus pandemic. But unlike earlier evacuations, the IAF is on stand-by.

How Niti Aayog plans to make India a Covid testing superpower with private help

While India can currently conduct 1.25 lakh RT-PCR tests a day, the majority involve the use of imported kits.

Coronavirus death toll rises to 1,981 in India, cases climb to 59,662

There was an increase of 95 deaths and 3,320 cases in the last 24 hours, said the Union Health Ministry.

After 40 days of lockdown, Indians just wanted alcohol not ‘Gujarat Model’

While it's easy to forget the coronavirus crisis in high spirits, many states realised that opening the shops was not very practical to keep a pandemic at bay.

Did India handle Covid crisis better or Pakistan? The answer lies in these 4 tests

There is a lot India and Pakistan can learn from each other’s response to the coronavirus pandemic — from imposing lockdowns to spending more.

China continues to hide, obfuscate Covid data from the world: Mike Pompeo

US Secretary of State Pompeo said that he has seen significant evidence suggesting a laboratory in Wuhan was underperforming and the virus may well have emanated from there.

The next Covid crisis could be a wave of suicides

Mental health experts worry that the economic uncertainty and social isolation of the pandemic will make things worse at a time when the health care system is already overwhelmed.

Kerala’s corona recovery rate is 94% against 9% for Punjab, but here’s why it doesn’t matter

Health ministry data on Covid-19 recovery & fatality throws up stark variations from state to state. But experts caution against reading too much into this data.

On Camera

I met Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in 2005. He told me he was an admirer of MK Gandhi

Shuttle diplomacy at a high level is indicated, along the lines of the famous Kissingerian shuttles following the 1973 Arab-Israeli war.

#ByeByeAP to #LuluBackInAP: Naidu’s moves to make Andhra ‘business friendly’ & woo back investors

The Jagan Reddy govt has been accused of scuppering various investment deals. Under Naidu, the govt, is trying to make AP a top investment destination, officials and industrialists say.

IAF chief AP Singh red-flags Tejas delay, says China ahead in technology & production capacity

Air force chief says HAL needs to churn out 24 aircraft per year. It is important for IAF to have indigenous weapons systems to deal with any security challenges, he says.

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?