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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.

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Was India’s public sector born out of European envy?

For all its obvious blemishes, capitalism alone holds out the most creative and dynamic force that any civilization has ever discovered, wrote BP Godrej in 1980.

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

2 Assam Rifles personnel killed as convoy ambushed in Manipur, on ‘same route Modi took’ fortnight ago

This is the first major attack on central security forces since last November, when a CRPF jawan was killed and four were injured in an ambush in Jiribam on Manipur-Assam border. 

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.