-The Hindu A stronger health system in a country can lead to better outcomes on the economic growth front When public health sneezes, the economy catches cold. Dire predictions for the post-COVID-19 global economy have come from the International Monetary Fund, which called the present crisis the worst downturn since the Great Depression. Grim forebodings for the Indian economy have been sounded by many distinguished economists and the Governor of the Reserve...
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Flawed Covid-19 Database Source Of Decisions To Ease Lockdown -Mridula Chari & Nitin Sethi
-Article-14.com The Centre’s ‘single source of truth’ in easing lockdowns is a database of Covid-19 cases ridden with unverified data, duplicate names and other flaws. States, some protesting at the confusion, use another database and only in five states do the two databases tally. Mumbai: Two of four parameters that the Centre currently uses to decide severity of the Covid-19 pandemic and ease lockdown restrictions are based on an inaccurate database maintained...
More »When a News Article Vanishes, We Have More Than Just a Pandemic to Worry About -Priyanka Pulla
-TheWire.in An article critical of the government's response to COVID-19 was published on The New Indian Express's website on May 8, and disappeared from its link within a day. Last week, The New Indian Express, one of India’s major English newspapers, pulled down an article that was heavily critical of the Centre’s response to the COVID-19 outbreak. The article, entitled ‘Centre’s COVID-19 Communication Plan: hold back data, gag agencies and scientists’, discussed...
More »Massive 145% profiteering exposed in coronavirus rapid test kits sold to ICMR -Rajeev Dubey & Vivek Punj
-Businesstoday.in Dispute between importer and distributor unravels super profits; Delhi HC strikes down sale price by 33 per cent * The $3 per test SARS CoV-2 Antibody test kits are being imported from China's Wondfo * Its landed price, including air freight (Rs 20), to importer Matrix Labs is Rs 245 per test * ICMR placed an order to buy 5 lakh kits on March 27, 28 @Rs 600 (plus GST) per test * Importer...
More »ICMR directly procured faulty Covid-19 testing kits from Chinese vendors -Elizabeth Roche
-Livemint.com ICMR advises states not to use the testing kits for the next two days, saying it will issue an advisory after medical teams carry out field validation of the kits NEW DELHI: Test kits for the detection and surveillance of covid-19 cases in India that have apparently been found faulty had been procured by the Indian Council of Medical Research from China from Chinese vendors approved by Chinese authorities, a senior...
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