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Topic: COVID-19

Why healthcare workers are more at risk from COVID-19 and how hospitals are protecting them

While the hospitals have been taking stock of masks, gloves, personal protective equipment, they are also training health workers to take precautions.

Bengal’s first COVID-19 patient evaded test for 2 days while IAS mother met top officials

The revelation has angered CM Mamata Banerjee, sent top officials into self-quarantine, and caused the state secretariat Nabanna to be scrubbed clean.

How to slow down COVID-19 — this is the only way to ‘flatten the curve’ of coronavirus spread

The British way of letting the coronavirus spread won’t get us anywhere. Italy's Lodi and South Korea have shown us what can be effective, and India must follow suit.

Should India’s private healthcare join COVID-19 fight or risks becoming a profit venture?

The Narendra Modi government will allow accredited private labs to test for the novel coronavirus to increase India’s testing capacity.

Vaccine trials to contact tracing app — here are 5 global developments on COVID-19 front

From potential vaccines to origins of the novel coronavirus, ThePrint brings you the top research developments from across the world.

Mecca to Vatican — COVID-19 proves when human beings are in peril, gods flee first

Everything is on hold in Mecca. The Pope isn't communicating with god. Brahmin priests in temples are putting masks on idols. Religion has deserted coronavirus-fearing people.

Coronavirus inspires zero contact, only delivery from Swiggy, Zomato, Domino’s, McDonald’s

Food aggregators are letting customers request their delivery to be left off at the doorstep rather than being directly handed over.

COVID-19 cases in Pakistan rise to 212 amid conflicting statements on nation’s first death

The Punjab Health Minister & National Command and Control Centre had earlier confirmed the first casualty due to virus but the Punjab CM rejected the statements later on.

‘Big Brother’ Germany guests don’t know about coronavirus pandemic, to be told live on TV

Producers of the show defended their decision to not tell contestants earlier saying information blackout is only lifted in emergency situations.

Railways hike platform ticket from Rs 10 to Rs 50 to regulate crowds in view of COVID-19

This has been done by six divisions of the Western railway zone and other zones are likely to follow suit soon.

On Camera

Postcards from Hyderabad—stories Europeans told about the city

For all their colonial underpinnings, postcards from Hyderabad also inadvertently preserve a trace of local memory: a glimpse of a street, a face, a forgotten name.

Navigating Trump’s tariffs is no child’s play. Indian toymakers are losing out on orders, enquiries

Indian toymakers are now exploring new markets, but they want govt to negotiate a trade deal with US soon, introduce incentives and subsidies to make the industry more competitive.

What is Project Sudarshan Chakra, announced by Modi from ramparts of Red Fort

The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?