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Comparatively less number of people in Telangana were administered COVID-19 vaccination on Tuesday. Usually, around 1.5 lakh people are given the jab in a day. However, only 1.04 lakh people were given the shot. Of them, 24,624 received the first dose and 80,268 took second dose of the vaccine. When asked, senior officials from the […]
As the pandemic continues, we must write the ‘little histories’, so that a ‘big history’ may also be written along the way Seven years before he died, I chanced upon folders of obituaries of five-time West Bengal chief minister Jyoti Basu in a boxy computer in the Calcutta newsroom I worked in. I don’t remember […]
3,925 persons contract virus through local contact COVID-19 cases has begun to rise again after a lull in Malappuram district. As many as 4,037 fresh cases were reported in the district on Tuesday with a test positivity rate (TPR) of 13.97%. The number of infected persons under treatment in the district rose to 21,603 even […]
President Joe Biden has blamed online falsehoods for causing people to refrain from getting the injections. Written by Sheera Frenkel An article that appeared in The New York Times on Feb. 9 began with a seemingly innocuous question about the legal definition of vaccines. Then over its next 3,400 words, it declared coronavirus vaccines were […]
The director says that he did not want to define the perception of the film for the audience with a title We are familiar with ‘Untitled’ art works, but films? You read that right. Kannada film director Ragu Shivamogga has released three untitled short films based on COVID-19. The three-minute long films, were released last […]
51,18,210 vaccine doses were administered in the last 24 hours, says Health Ministry More than 3.29 crore (3,29,38,559) balance and unutilised COVID-19 vaccine doses are still available with the States/UTs and private hospitals to be administered, the Health Ministry said in a release on Sunday. It added that more than 45.37 crore (45,37,70,580) vaccine doses […]
The study also suggests increased morbidity in infected infants, with a significant correlation with premature births, indicating at the possibility of increased risk of premature labour in Covid-positive pregnant women. A study published in the journal Indian Pediatrics has claimed that Covid-19 can be transmitted from an infected mother to a baby during the perinatal […]
Be it the human-animal conflict, climate change, poaching, or hunting, author Rohan Chakravarty finds a comic character that makes us chuckle yet takes a dig at the innovative ways that man has wreaked havoc on planet earth “I’m the grey slender lorris, a nocturnal primate found only in India and Sri Lanka,” announces the lorris […]
State adds over 3,500 deaths; case fatality rate climbs to 2.09% Maharashtra’s declining case trend continued on Tuesday with the State reporting 7,510 recoveries as against 6,910 new COVID-19 cases causing the active case tally to fall to 94,593. The reconciliation process (completed till July 12) has resulted in a massive updation of cases and […]
During the meeting, the health secretary is expected to make a presentation,which is likely to be attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi as well. The main opposition party Congress and BJP’s former ally Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) have said they will not attend the government’s meeting with floor leaders of all parties on Covid management […]