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Topic: Pandemic

10 reasons why Covid-19 data on testing and fatalities might not be accurate

Specific areas could see much worse death rates because of their poor health care systems or due to existing chronic diseases in population.

Saturday Night Live returns with surprise host Tom Hanks and a remote episode on Zoom

Latest episode of Saturday Night Live, late-night comedy show, had cast perform sketches on Donald Trump & Bernie Sanders from their homes.

Lakshman rekha between covidiot and coronapocalypse. Pandemic brings a new language in town

Coronavirus lockdown is changing people's lexicon — one strange word at a time.

Move over Contagion. Board and video games on virus apocalypse are the new obsession

Games in which players are pathogens out to destroy humanity or healthcare workers battling an outbreak, are all the rage during the coronavirus lockdown.

India would’ve had 8.2 lakh cases without lockdown & containment measures: Health Ministry

As Modi govt prepares to extend lockdown, health officials talk of successful Agra model, 1,035 cases recorded in last 24 hours.

Bhopal’s health dept, led by its IAS secy, becomes new corona hotspot, half city’s cases linked

More than 30 officials of the city's health department have tested positive for Covid-19, and more than 50 cases in the city are related to it.

In pandemics, forensic pathologists deal with morgues, mass graves and infectious remains

There is an assumption that dealing with the deceased doesn’t require the same urgency as working with an ill patient. Normally that is true, but not in Covid-19.

Migrant crisis could’ve been averted if Modi’s One Nation One Ration Card scheme was ready

Currently, the scheme is operational only in 12 states, but the govt says it will meet its June 2020 deadline for the rest of India.

This is how India’s Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan spent his Good Friday

Online & offline meetings with health ministers & global experts, daily briefings - no rest for Dr Harsh Vardhan during Covid-19 pandemic.

Kolkata-born Miss England Bhasha Mukherjee swaps crown for stethoscope to fight pandemic

The trained doctor returned from overseas after hearing from former colleagues at an English hospital about the problems they’re facing.

On Camera

Trump’s unpredictability is not the absence of strategy—it works on everyone but China

The Italian term sprezzatura—a studied nonchalance that conceals intention—best captures the spirit of Trump’s foreign policy so far. The pattern is unpredictability, transactionalism, and disruption as diplomacy.

Asia’s ‘weakest’ link: Yunus on a tightrope as Bangladesh tries to fix banks without breaking economy

With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

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.