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Friday, November 1, 2024
TopicHealth epidemic

Topic: Health epidemic

Learning from Covid, Modi govt plans big AI push for disease surveillance across India

The health ministry has signed an MoU with a private company to develop an AI-based tool that will scan media reports and track disease outbreaks.

Grave diggers, the frontline workers of the 1898 bubonic plague that history forgot

The social stigmatisation of mortuary work explains the silence in the colonial archives. What archives choose to tell is equally revealing.

After first coronavirus death, govt shares list of helpline numbers for all states & UTs

With a 76-year-old Karnataka man being confirmed as India’s first COVID-19 fatality, the government has stepped up efforts to contain the outbreak.

102 yrs before COVID-19, India braved The Bombay Fever pandemic that killed over 10 mn

The Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918 had claimed somewhere between 50 and 100 million lives worldwide, with India accounting for almost a fifth of the global death toll.

Why a 3-year-old in Kerala being diagnosed with coronavirus is a crucial statistic

Early findings from China indicated that among the 44,000 known cases, less than 1% were aged younger than 10. The Kerala child is India’s first.

CAPFs asked to prepare 5,400-bed quarantine facilities across India for coronavirus cases

As the number of confirmed cases in India reaches 43, the Union Home Ministry has asked for 75 isolation wards at 37 locations in the country.

Seasonal flu far more common than coronavirus, but its vaccine is not popular in India

While vaccine for coronavirus will take another year to be developed, India needs to do more to prevent seasonal flu that kills despite having a vaccine, say health experts.

China records 22 new deaths, 11 temporary hospitals closed as new coronavirus cases drop

The total death toll in mainland China reached 3,119. Officials said 40 new confirmed cases were reported Monday, the lowest number since January.

Coronavirus cases rise to 43 after three-year-old from Kerala, J&K woman test positive

The child and its parents who arrived from Italy were subjected to thermal screening, and the samples of the parents have also been sent to lab.

Coronavirus got you working from home? Expect a pain in the neck

How well businesses function with large number of employees working from home could have a lasting impact on our approach to work.

On Camera

Bibek Debroy was an ‘Acharya’ in India’s intellectual history

In the centuries to come, economist Bibek Debroy's Mahabharata will attain the importance we attach to the texts of Shankara, Ramanuja, and Madhvacharya.

Watch CutTheClutter: Flattening INR-USD rate, and debate on pros and cons of a ‘strong’ rupee

In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.

All about Major Bob Khathing, whose daring expedition & diplomatic parleys secured Tawang for India

The decorated Naga officer from Manipur also served as envoy to Myanmar & Nagaland chief secy. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated a museum dedicated to the Tawang hero Thursday.

From 2004 to 2024, bad news has come wrapped as good news for Congress

Congress is silently acknowledging it over-read verdict of last general election. You can see it in easy concession to SP. It will likely be more reasonable in Maharashtra & Jharkhand.