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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.

Why coronavirus antibody tests are not a passport to return to work

Faye Flam -
Positive antibody test isn’t automatic ticket back to work until people can also be tested to ensure they don’t have any active virus lingering in their bodies.

Relief camp shut, no home to return to, Delhi’s riot victims shelter with do-gooders

Fatima Khan -
With the Delhi riots in February taking away the livelihood of so many, the victims say the lockdown is another big blow for them.

Modi govt alone can’t fight Covid. It needs foot soldiers like the RSS

Seshadri Chari -
The RSS does not train its activists in organising relief camps. Yet its volunteers are actively participating in the Covid-19 relief work.

IPS officer sent on compulsory leave over DHFL promoters’ travel during Covid-19 lockdown

PTI -
The Maharashtra bureaucrat had issued a letter exempting DHFL's Wadhawans from the Covid-19 lockdown norms citing a family emergency.

Lockdown casts a cloud over Uddhav Thackeray’s election to legislature and smooth run as CM

Haima Deshpande -
Uddhav Thackeray was sworn in as Maharashtra Chief Minister on 28 November 2019, but he is yet to be elected as a member of the House. 

Sonia Gandhi wants Modi to suspend Central Vista. But this urban harakiri must be scrapped

AG Krishna Menon -
Modi's Rs 20,000 crore worth Central Vista revamp project goes against the cardinal objective of Delhi Master Plan 2021 to decentralise government offices.

Assam reports first coronavirus death, total cases in the state rise to 28

PTI -
The 65-year-old retired BSF personnel who died Friday had attended the Tablighi Jamaat meet in New Delhi and had travelled to Saudi Arabia.

New York, New Jersey urge people to stay put as deaths rise and peak of infection nears

Elise Young -
New Jersey, which trails New York with the second-highest number of infections in the US, expects cases to peak in two to three days.

Pay private labs to test for Covid-19, it’s the best way to start India’s economic recovery

Ila Patnaik -
As India prepares exit strategy from lockdown, it must heed Nobel laureate Paul Romer’s words — spending a small percentage of GDP on testing can get big gains.

Critical drugs supply must not be disrupted, EU envoy says as India bans & resumes exports

Nayanima Basu -
Ambassador Ugo Astuto says EU and India agree that health emergency comes first but economic fallout of Covid-19 also needs to be confronted in parallel.
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