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TopicCovid deaths

Topic: Covid deaths

This Jabalpur banker quit his job to focus on his ‘duty’ — cremating & burying Covid bodies

Ashish Thakur and his team believe in dignity for the dead — they cremate and bury bodies with all rituals, even those that are abandoned or whose families can’t afford it.

At ‘worst case’, India’s Covid deaths are 14 times higher than govt count, says NYT

NYT analyses India's case and death counts, serosurvey results and speaks to experts to draw what it says is a more accurate estimate of the country's Covid burden.

Day in the life of a doctor in rural Bihar: Travel 80km, tackle hesitancy, battle poor infra

Dr Pankaj Kumar, 37, is posted at Madhubani's Covid Care hospital. His worst nightmare: When he has to utter those four words — 'he/she is no more'.

Covid not active in nasal, oral cavities 12-24 hrs after death, says AIIMS forensic chief

AIIMS forensic chief Dr Sudhir Gupta said that nasal & oral cavities should be plugged to prevent leakage of body fluids and that transmission from the deceased is highly unlikely.

270 doctors died in Covid second wave, says IMA. Number would be higher without vaccines

Doctors say while vaccination helped in preventing mortalities, infection is continuing to spread owing to the nature of their profession.

‘If there’s hell…it’s here’ — A day with patients in DMCH, north Bihar’s mainstay hospital

DMCH caters to patients from 5 districts of north Bihar. In the second surge of the pandemic, Darbhanga has engaged 20 private hospitals to manage the patient load.

Former Rajasthan CM Jagannath Pahadia dies of Covid, PM Modi pays tribute

The Veteran Congress leader died Wednesday at the age of 89. Jagannath Pahadia was chief minister of Rajasthan in 1980-81 and also a former governor of Haryana and Bihar.

India’s Covid death toll may continue to rise for another week, warn health experts

Experts noted that the severity of the infection that is directly affecting the SOPs in a very short span is responsible for deaths in the second wave.

Daily Covid deaths are rising even as cases decline. Here’s why

For India, the average time lapse between a Covid case being detected and death is roughly around 15 days.

MP’s Damoh voted when Covid surged, and school teachers on poll duty paid a big price

Assembly bypoll was conducted in MP's Damoh on 17 April. Many teachers on poll duty died of Covid, or lost family members to the virus, after that.

On Camera

History teaching requires revision more than textbooks

The kinds of revisions we’re seeing remove the very skills that make historical thinking meaningful. The result is a citizen who either dismisses history entirely or defends it without support.

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?