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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.

Centre discontinues allocation of Remdesivir to states as supply improves

PTI -
Union Minister Mansukh L Mandaviya said supply of the drug, which is being used to treat Covid-19, has been ramped up over ten times since 11 April.

SubscriberWrites: Modi govt must drop its hubris, accept mistakes and give a fresh shot at procuring vaccines

Neeta Sanghi -
Since it was Modi who took the credit for India being a saviour to the world at international forums, the blame must also be his.

SubscriberWrites: How Covid increased malnutrition, especially in children, and is crisis of the future

Rajpal Bijarnia -
Whether we win or lose the war against Covid, we risk losing children to acute malnutrition, diarrhea, pneumonia and other illnesses, writes Rajpal Bijarnia.

Why everyone won’t be happy with GST relief on Covid related items

Remya Nair -
Exemption given from IGST extended to even paid imports of Covid relief material, is likely to benefit NGOs recognised by states. But many others will be left out.

Covaxin production to be increased to 6-7 crore doses in July-August, health ministry says

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The health ministry said the production capacity of Bharat Biotech's Covaxin is expected to reach nearly 10 crore doses a month by September.

India risks becoming Latin America on the ‘Great Gatsby Curve’, must manage its fisc better

TN Ninan -
Curve tracks intersection of inequality with how likely it is for next generation to move up economic ladder. Big Latin American economies are worst at that.

Death and journalism: India’s Covid deaths are undercounted, but twice the Partition toll?

Shekhar Gupta -
Last 3 months have been gravest period of national tragedy, and a lot of Indians have died, mostly avoidably. But an undercount of total deaths at a mass scale is tougher.

Supreme Court to hear plea seeking cancellation of Class 12 boards on 31 May

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The plea contended that the unprecedented surge in Covid has made it impossible to conduct the exams and any further delay would cause irreparable loss to the students' future.

It takes 4 months to manufacture, release a batch of Covaxin, says Bharat Biotech

PTI -
Bharat Biotech’s statement comes at a time when the country is facing a shortage of Covid vaccines, leading to disruptions in the nationwide inoculation programme.

BKU (Ugrahan) begins 3-day protest over Punjab govt’s failure to tackle Covid

PTI -
A BKU (U) leader alleged that the Modi govt had also failed to deal with the Covid situation and some BJP leaders were now shifting blame on farmers to defame their agitation.
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