-Newslaundry.com Media employees are under pressure on the frontlines, often without protective gear or enough support from their employers. As cases of the novel Coronavirus began appearing in Dharavi — where some 8.5 lakh people reside on a patch of land measuring 2.4 sq km — news channels and photographers from Mumbai scrambled to capture stories of the chaos and the challenge of preventing transmission in Asia's largest slum. Please click here to...
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India’s farmers can keep economy running in Covid crisis. But who will tell Modi govt that? -Yogendra Yadav
-ThePrint.in This is the moment to thank farmers. You don’t need thali or taali for that, you just need to ensure they get a fair price. Then we can kickstart India’s economy. As many states in north India begin their food grain procurement operations and more and more news begin to filter in from rural India, we can see one of the biggest blunders of the ongoing Coronavirus lockdown strategy: it might...
More »A change in migrant policy -Dipak Kumar Singh & Pushpendra
-The Hindu Besides addressing the immediate distress conditions of migrants, the state needs to think of long-term solutions Seasonal migration is one of the most critical issues of our time. The condition of seasonal migrants has emerged as no less an important issue than the novel Coronavirus itself. The COVID-19 crisis has, for the first time, brought migration to the centre stage of public health and disaster response in India. Please click here...
More »Who gets tested for Coronavirus determines infection rates better than how many are -Vignesh Radhakrishnan, Sumant Sen & Naresh Singaravelu
-The Hindu When testing is done for people within a cluster, the number of positive cases seem to be higher, and vice-versa Generally, the number of positive COVID-19 cases increases when the testing rate increases. However, this is not always the case, as data from Gujarat show. Who gets tested determines the number of positive cases more than how many get tested. In Tamil Nadu, the number of positive cases went up when...
More »Did the WHO Fail to Discharge Its Duties Under International Law? -Jay Manoj Sanklecha
-TheWire.in Donald Trump’s decision to halt funding to the UN health body has renewed intense discussion on its role in handling the crisis. Trump’s decision to halt funding to the World Health Organisation (WHO), amidst a global pandemic, has been rightly criticised as “ill-timed”. However, it has also renewed intense discussion on the role of the WHO in handling the crisis. The White House has accused the WHO of severely mismanaging the...
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