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TopicQuarantine centers

Topic: Quarantine centers

If Hong Kong wants zero Covid strategy to succeed, it must improve its quarantine rules

It’s increasingly difficult to find a clear, logical justification for policies, which at this point are defensive and rooted in fear. The govt must improve its quarantine system.

Registration, Covid test, mass quarantine — how Assam’s Dhubri coped with big migrant influx

After lockdown was enforced, Assam's Dhubri district administration set up makeshift testing and quarantine facilities to cope with the influx of migrants returning home.

Cannot allow home isolation for mild Covid patients since they are carriers: UP govt to SC

Uttar Pradesh government also said that it has 'sufficient infrastructure' for all Covid-positive patients in the state.

Village level quarantine centres are ‘the worst’: Uttarakhand HC asks state to fund gram sabhas

A survey of quarantine centres at village level was done by the district legal services authority following the Uttarakhand High Court's order last month.

Detaining people in quarantine centres after negative Covid test violates Article 21: HC

The Allahabad High Court also directed that a 3-member committee be formed in every district to ensure effective functioning of quarantine centres.

On Camera

Nick Jonas wearing a mangalsutra is validation for many Indians. He’s our favourite jiju

Nick Jonas is not trying to modernise the mangalsutra, but his gesture shows that choices can be equal. If commitment must be flaunted, it need not be gendered.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

In a first, Indian small arms maker to bid for UK Project Grayburn to replace British Army’s SA80 rifles

Bengaluru-based SSS Defence has made public its bid for a major foreign military contract, targeting UK’s ambitious SA80 successor programme with its home-tested weapons.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.