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Wednesday, April 24, 2024
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Topic: Wuhan

Animals have come home. Covid-19 lockdown gives control back into nature’s hands

With people in India and elsewhere locked down in homes due to the coronavirus, the peaceful reclamation of public spaces by animals is teaching us important lessons.

China is reopening its wet markets. That’s not a bad decision

Attraction of wet markets isn't so different from farmers’ markets in the West. Consumers know food is fresh because there's little refrigeration.

Residents of Wuhan asked to stay home amid fears of fresh coronavirus wave

Wuhan, the epicentre of coronavirus in China, has announced plans to resume 100 passenger trains from 8 April onward.

Is Covid-19 a Chinese weapon or an accident? Either way, world must stop playing in bio labs

China's secrecy, ambitions, and disregard for life or environment are a problem. But so are the weapons-producing labs in US, Russia, France, Japan, North Korea and others.

1 million people infected: how coronavirus spread around the world

With some virus carriers showing few signs of illness & many countries unable or unwilling to conduct wider testing, the true number is likely higher.

All eyes are on Wuhan to study how business will bounce back after lockdown

Resumption of movement in and out of Wuhan, scheduled for 8 April, may serve as template for global markets that have been affected by restraints.

Around 5,000 volunteers sign up for phase 1 clinical trial of covid-19 vaccine in Wuhan

A single-centre, open and dose-escalation phase I clinical trial for recombinant novel coronavirus vaccine will be tested in healthy adults aged between 18 and 60 years.

China to lift restrictions in Wuhan after 2-month lockdown due to coronavirus

Recently, Wuhan's Hubei province reported zero new cases, a dramatic plunge of the pandemic which infected more than 80,000 and killed over 3,200 Chinese people.

One coronavirus patient infects 1.7 people in India, much lower than in China, Italy: Study

Study by Institute of Mathematical Sciences in Chennai explains slow spread of COVID-19 cases in India, but there is still no clarity on reasons for low reproduction number.

Finally, Wuhan has no new coronavirus cases after 2-month ordeal

Cases have dropped to zero from a peak of 15,000 a month ago, while Hubei has partially lifted the mass quarantine that’s been in place since 23 January.

On Camera

Imtiaz Ali obsesses over vulgarity, misses Chamkila’s cultural resistance against purity

Peter Manuel's ‘Cassette Culture’ showed the booming Bhakti music during the '80s and '90s when Anoop Jalota, Gulshan Kumar achieved success by singing the sanitised Bhajans.

Economists vs statisticians — the battle being fought over the soul of India’s GDP data

Economists say there are weaknesses in India’s GDP data. But statisticians claim the accusations are based on flawed understanding, saying while GDP has problems, the economists are looking in the wrong places.

India and Japan hold 10th round of consultations on disarmament, non-proliferation, and export control

The two sides also discussed ways to strengthen cooperation in outer space security, conventional weapons, and export control

These 6 states are key for Modi’s ‘400 paar’ target. They’re also where Opposition can stop him

While this contest looks so predictable in large swathes of our political landscape, it is also more keenly contested than 2019 in some states.