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Tuesday, March 19, 2024
TopicCovid lockdown

Topic: Covid lockdown

North Korea allows citizens to return form abroad after Covid lockdown

The announcement comes days after an Air Koryo flight from Pyongyang landed in Beijing for the first time since pandemic lockdowns began in 2020 amid a slow reopening of the country.

Pandemic sparked surge in new stock market investors but trend has dipped sharply, data shows

Sensex surged 87% between April 2020 & October 2021, drawing many new investors looking to cash in on this growth. Since that boom ended in late 2021, investor interest has also waned.

Two Chinese cities ease Covid curbs, day after protesters clash with police

Curbs were lifted in parts of Guangzhou, near Hong Kong. Chongqing will allow close contacts of people with Covid, who fulfil certain conditions, to quarantine at home.

From closing venues to temporary lockdowns — how Chinese cities are clamping down on Covid

Cases hit 2,898 in mainland China on Sunday, putting pressure on the country's controversial zero Covid policy. Shanghai's Disney Resort closed the entire resort Monday.

Covid’s economic fallout hit India’s industrialised states harder than agrarian ones, finds RBI

A new paper by RBI economists highlights the importance of states devising and deploying their own policies in times of crisis when mobility is affected.

Beijing sees record number of Covid cases as lockdown woes continue

The city reported 99 cases for Sunday, up from 61 on Saturday with the case tally hovering around 50 a day.

Xi defends China’s Covid lockdown-dependent approach amid mounting economic woes

China is seeking to support economic growth weighed down by lockdown measures to contain the country’s worst Covid outbreaks since the early days of the pandemic.

Connect, compete, earn: How Covid lockdowns set Indian gaming industry on path to $2 bn by 2023

Online gaming grew 28% to reach approximately US$1.3 billion in India in 2021, compared to US$906 million in 2019. Industry is hopeful of growth in revenues as well as jobs.

Covid left big gap in TB reporting, Modi govt looks to fill it with special door-to-door drive

To be launched on World TB Day, 24 March, programme will see health workers screening and testing vulnerable population for TB. Target is to match 2019 reporting numbers.

Urdu papers focus on Russia-Ukraine, criticise Modi for ‘politicising’ war, ‘delayed’ evacuation

ThePrint’s round-up of how the Urdu media covered various news events through the week, and the editorial positions some of them took.

On Camera

Indian shipping sector is vulnerable to geopolitical unrest. Build local, invest in air cargo

With the ongoing conflict at the Red Sea, India needs to take a long-term view of the PLI scheme and its ambition to emerge as a hub of shipping containers.

Complaints to RBI ombudsman up 68% in FY23, banks biggest cause for customer grievances

Data shows large public sector banks received highest number of complaints in absolute terms, but fared better than several private banks when looked at on complaints-per-branch basis.

Tiger Triumph-24 — India-US tri-services exercise to boost coordination begins

The exercise will be simulated to undertake HADR operations in a ‘friendly island nation’, where troops will execute amphibious landing ops.

CAA comes not with a bang, but with a whimper. Without NRC, it will fade into academic debate

For BJP, CAA was strategic move that did not quite work out because those it would benefit could’ve been accommodated under existing laws, and new entrants would remain excluded.