The national capital registered 4,432 new cases of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) on Thursday, even as the number of more accurate RT-PCR tests fell again below the 10,000 mark despite high daily tests in the city. The city also reported 38 deaths on Thursday, which is the highest in 63 …
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In the first substantive discussion on the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in Parliament on Wednesday, the Opposition questioned the government about its handling of the pandemic, the way the shutdown, the slipping of the economy, was announced and managed, the suffering. of migrant workers and the Center’s approach to the States …
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How seriously do you take Dr. Li-Meng Yan? And how seriously does the article Unusual Features of the Sars-CoV2 Genome Suggesting a Sophisticated Laboratory Modification rather than a Natural Evolution and Delineation of its Probable Synthetic Pathway, published by her and her co-authors, under the auspices of the Rule of …
Read More »IMA publishes a list of 382 doctors who died due to Covid-19 and demands that they be treated as martyrs
Making an exception to the fact that Health Minister Harsh Vardhan did not mention the death of health workers due to Covid-19 in his statement in Parliament, the IMA on Wednesday published a list of 382 doctors who died due to the viral disease and demanded that they be treated …
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In Dispatch 156, I wrote about why it didn’t make sense to use rapid antigen tests all the time, or to rely too much on them, as Delhi is still. In short, these tests return too many false negative results (identifying an infected person as not infected) to be reliable. …
Read More »India’s Covid-19 count surpasses the 5 million mark as cases continue to rise at an alarming rate
The number of coronavirus infections in India surpassed the 5 million mark with 91,136 new cases reported on Tuesday as infections continued to rise at an alarming rate in the nation with the worst case rate ever recorded. India’s total case count is 5,017,914, behind only the United States, which …
Read More »NEET to be held on Sunday amid strict Covid-19 protocols
More than 15 lakh candidates are expected to appear in the NEET medical entrance exam on Sunday, which will take place amid strict precautions in light of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to officials with the National Testing Agency (NTA). ). In order to maintain social distancing, the NTA has increased …
Read More »5 states account for 60% of daily Covid-19 recoveries: Center
The Union Health Ministry said on Friday that 60 percent of daily recoveries from the novel coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in India come from five states, namely Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka. and Uttar Pradesh, adding that these states also account for 57% of new cases. “Almost 57 percent of …
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The United States has seen two spikes in the number of Covid-19 cases; Europe is starting to see its second wave, apparently bigger than the first (in terms of daily cases) in France and Spain, but smaller in Germany, Italy and the UK. India continues to experience a strong and …
Read More »Increase in covid-19 cases: the 10 cities in India most affected by the pandemic
India, in recent weeks, has seen a steady increase in the number of cases of coronavirus disease (Covid-19) recorded in a single day. From around 75,000 at the end of August, the country now records more cases in 24 hours than the infection count for some of the worst-hit countries. …
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