Mass testing helped authorities identify thousands of infected individuals, but it also strained labs, slowed results and complicated the next crucial step — contact tracing.
ThePrint visited Bakarpur and Sahnewal villages in Punjab where health workers in mobile testing vans have been going about motivating people to get tested for Covid-19.
Union ministers Nitin Gadkari and Prahlad Patel tested positive for Covid-19 recently. Both had attended the ongoing Monsoon session of the parliament.
The number of people calling UK's Covid-19 phone helpline and visiting the government website totaled three to four times the number of tests, the govt was told.
Several states, including Delhi, West Bengal and Kerala register an increase in their R values, while other high burden states such as Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu see a dip.
MoSPI proposes to remove closed factories from IIP sample, aiming for truer picture of India’s industrial health in upcoming 2022–23 base series. Plan open to public feedback until 25 November.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
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