A round-up of the most important reports in major newspapers around the country – from TOI and HT, Express and The Hindu to The Telegraph, Mumbai Mirror and The Tribune, as well as top financial dailies.
ICMR scientist Nivedita Gupta says task force discussed using BCG to build immunity among at-risk groups, but there’s ‘miniscule’ evidence of its efficacy.
Dr Priya Abraham tells ThePrint the lockdown needs to be ‘obeyed 100%’ as partial implementation will defeat the purpose of checking a virus’ ability to spread.
In episode 434 of #CutTheClutter, Shekhar Gupta analyses the first 50 deaths in India and how constant exposure to pathogens puts the country's population in unique position to fight Covid-19.
Joint Secretary in the Health Ministry Luv Aggarwal said Covid-19 was still in the local transmission stage in the country, as total number of cases reached 1,071.
While the language war in other states is targeting those who can't speak the local language, in Bengal, even those whose mother tongue is Bengali have to constantly prove their Bengali-ness.
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.
Capable of being fired in plain and high-altitude areas, it has day-and-night capability and two-way data link to support post-launch target, aim-point update.
As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.
There are serious flaws in the inference made from the study as the study is based on sentinel surveillance which is usually done as a supplement to community based surveillance. This study has tested only hospitalization patients from more than 41 sites and the overall positivity (1.9%)among SARI patients indicate the nature of sample which was picked up is not the high prevalent group. Further getting 106 cases from 41 sites indicate the low sample from each site which cannot have any explanatory power.
Finally, as all the samples were collected from patients admitted 15th Feb and March 19, and considering the incubation period and the test results carried out during 29th March and 2nd April it indicate a possibility of hospital infection ratherthan community infection.
There are serious flaws in the inference made from the study as the study is based on sentinel surveillance which is usually done as a supplement to community based surveillance. This study has tested only hospitalization patients from more than 41 sites and the overall positivity (1.9%)among SARI patients indicate the nature of sample which was picked up is not the high prevalent group. Further getting 106 cases from 41 sites indicate the low sample from each site which cannot have any explanatory power.
Finally, as all the samples were collected from patients admitted 15th Feb and March 19, and considering the incubation period and the test results carried out during 29th March and 2nd April it indicate a possibility of hospital infection ratherthan community infection.