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Friday, August 29, 2025
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Topic: Healthcare workers

Doctors, nurses have final responsibility to protect themselves from Covid: Govt to SC

The affidavit was filed in response to a petition by Dr Arushi Jain, challenging the new SOP for healthcare workers that ended the mandatory 14-day quarantine for them.

33 staff members of Max hospital in Delhi’s Patparganj test positive for Covid-19

All the affected people have been shifted to a dedicated quarantine facility in East Block of Max Hospital, Saket in South Delhi.

Up to 7 yrs in jail, Rs 5 lakh fine if you injure a health worker treating Covid-19 patients

Modi govt promulgates ordinance to amend the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897, increasing punishment and fast-tracking investigation and judgments.

Healthcare workers have no armour, Boris Johnson is ‘loved-up’ and Trump’s WHO track

The best cartoons of the week, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Give Covid-19 health workers a rest period

WHO informed that in some countries, 10% of the health workers are getting infected by the coronavirus and training is required for their protection.

Sick doctors, shut hospitals, no guidelines — a Wockhardt doctor on India’s Covid response

Authorities must resist shutting down hospitals with infected staff because each bed and healthcare worker is an essential resource in India’s battle against the pandemic.

Rajasthan has done 30,000 tests, a reason why it could see more cases: Top health official

Additional Chief Secretary, Health, Rohit Kumar Singh tells ThePrint how he sees the crisis as an opportunity to strengthen Rajasthan’s public health systems.

Doctors, hospital workers are also fighting abuse and violence as virus stigma, panic grows

Medical workers have also been attacked from Australia to the Philippines, but the situation is particularly bad in India.

Dear Indians, don’t clap for doctors battling Covid-19 if you don’t want them as neighbours

Banging utensils to thank doctors is hypocritical if landlords are forcefully evicting them due to paranoia that they might spread Covid-19.

On Camera

Why families keep killing wives, daughters—a silenced woman preserves honour

Nikki Bhati’s death in Greater Noida shows that law alone can’t protect women. The absence of autonomy is the real problem.

Easy loans, uneasy ‘debt traps’. Women harassed by private lenders ask ‘who will restore lost dignity?’

A public meeting, where the women voiced their protest, took place this month in Delhi, grounded on the findings of an AIDWA survey, covering 9,000 women borrowers.

Post-Sindoor, joint doctrine tasks Special Forces with fighting info warfare & countering propaganda

Joint Doctrine for Special Forces Operations, released Wednesday, also outlines plans for the future expansion of AFSOD and the creation of Joint Service Training Institutes.

That Oval Office picture for ages deserves closer Indian reading, with a geopolitical lens

Putin sees this as a victory. Europeans have decided to deal with Trump on his terms for the sake of the larger Western alliance. We look at the lessons for us in India.