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Wednesday, November 6, 2024
TopicCovid testing

Topic: covid testing

India crosses 10 lakh daily Covid tests milestone within month of boosting screening process

The health ministry said the increased number of tests would help bring the positivity rate down eventually.

Israel develops new Covid pool testing method that can screen nearly 50 samples at once

Called P-Best, for Pooling-Based Efficient SARS-CoV-2 Testing, Israel's method is based on an algorithm that is used to detect rare genetic mutations.

India’s Covid tally rises to 26.47 lakh with 57,981 new cases, death toll crosses 50,000

The total number of tests in India for detection of Covid-19 has crossed the 3-crore mark, the health ministry said.

On Camera

Trump has called Delhi a big abuser of tariffs. India-US economic ties are about to change

How Trump responds to the growing Russia-China alliance and their anti-American diatribes will require some strategising among the Indian foreign policy and national security mandarins.

How Adani halving power supply to Bangladesh could land the country in ‘dire straits’

Bangladesh is already reeling from low coal-fired power production & inability to import enough coal, gas. Now, Adani has cut supplies over unpaid dues. However, this could hurt Adani too.

Rifles slung upside down, on ponies. Indian troops go on their 1st patrol in Depsang since 2020

Troops patrolled up to Patrolling Point (PP) 10 on Monday. Though there are PP 10, 11, 12, 12A & 13 in Depsang Plains, it was decided that only one or two PPs would be patrolled.

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.