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Tuesday, October 1, 2024
TopicCOVID-19

Topic: COVID-19

Indian health data will miss recording many Covid and lockdown deaths

Covid-19 impacts are assessed based on case fatality rate. But how will government effectively respond if one in five deaths in India are not registered in any database?

Aarogya Setu download rate is faster than Facebook. Can it keep India ahead of Covid curve?

Aarogya Setu is at the centre of Modi govt’s contact tracing efforts to contain the Covid spread. Govt must allay concerns around its privacy provisions.

Satyajit Ray’s ‘Feluda’ will soon detect coronavirus in minutes, thanks to CSIR scientists

Scientists at Delhi’s CSIR-IGIB have developed a paper-based test strip for Covid-19, and named it after the fictional detective created by Satyajit Ray.

June Almeida — the woman who discovered first coronavirus but was told she was wrong

June Almeida, who dropped out of school at 16 because she couldn’t afford it, went on to become a pioneer in virology.

UP’s decision to evacuate students from Kota irks Bihar while MP, Chhattisgarh follow suit

Uttar Pradesh sent 300 buses to Rajasthan’s coaching hub to evacuate students, but Bihar CM Nitish Kumar, who refused to take back students, has cried foul.

BJP mocks Rahul Gandhi for using ‘strategy, strategic, strategically’ 34 times in 57 mins

Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi held a media interaction on the Covid-19 pandemic Thursday, and offered suggestions to Modi govt on how to deal with the crisis.

Mamata gives Rs 10 lakh insurance cover to journalists, asks them to report positive news

Mamata Banerjee showered praise on the media for their work covering the Covid-19 crisis, and said journalists should not be fired.

2 Karnataka officials suspended, 5 men held after 1,000 attend chariot event in ‘hotspot’

Kalaburagi is a Covid-19 hotspot, but devotees insisted on conducting an annual chariot procession at Siddhalingeswara Temple in Revoor village Thursday.

Lockdown slowing virus spread, Covid-19 cases doubling in 6.2 days instead of 3, says govt

India has been under a nationwide lockdown since 25 March as part of a massive effort to restrict Covid-19 transmission in the country.

Daughter of drug lord ‘El Chapo’ distributes Covid aid packages for cash-strapped Mexicans

Alejandrina Guzman, daughter of drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman, and other Mexican cartels are providing aid packages to residents.

On Camera

After a brief surge, private investment & hiring has again turned cautious. Focus is on cutting debt

Financial year 2022-23 saw private investments & hiring surge, but since then firms are using cash to reduce debt. General elections didn’t help matters, either.

Compete, coexist, confront & contest: Army chief General Dwivedi says on dealing with China

Referring to current situation, General Upendra Dwivedi says it is stable but not normal; instead, sensitive. He adds the diplomatic side can only come up with certain options.

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?