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Five of top 10 states report highest single-day Covid-19 figure -Amitabh Sinha

-The Indian Express Five of the top ten states with maximum caseloads reported their highest single day figures on Thursday, as the number of new infections went past the 20,000 mark for the first time. India Coronavirus (Covid-19) Cases Numbers: Five of the top ten states with maximum caseloads — Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh — reported their highest single day figures on Thursday, as the number of new...

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Number of recoveries exceed active cases for first time, says Union Health Ministry

-PTI/ The Hindu The country has recorded 279 new fatalities due to COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, taking the death toll to 7,745 The number of recovered COVID-19 patients has exceeded the total active cases in India for the first time on Wednesday, according to the Union Health Ministry data. India reported close to 10,000 new instances of the infection in the last 24 hours till Wednesday 8 a.m., pushing the country’s...

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Economy’s Clear Signal: Boost Demand, Not Loans -Montu Bose and Sibin Kartik Tiwari

-Newsclick.in The poor need food and money, not more loans. Only demand-side interventions will revive the economy. The Covid-19 pandemic is an unprecedented crisis that almost all countries are struggling to cope with. Like the rest of the world, India is fighting the spread of the disease and its adverse consequences on the health system and its finances. On the economic front, India was already facing a prolonged slowing down. Even before...

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Covid test should track viral load too, says new ICMR study -Karishma Mehrotra

-The Indian Express Viral load refers to the quantity of a virus in an organism and is a reflection of how quickly the virus is replicating. Only seven per cent of coronavirus samples have a “high viral load” — meaning these people would, on average, transmit the infection to 6.25 other people. The vast majority (84%) have a low infectiousness, transmitting to only 0.8 persons on average. Nine per cent have a...

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Enforcing lockdown indefinitely too disruptive, say public health experts -Jacob Koshy

-The Hindu “Had the migrant persons been allowed to go home at the beginning of the epidemic when the disease spread was very low, the current situation could have been avoided,” says the joint letter by three public health organisations. A group of public health experts, two of whom are part of a government-constituted advisory committee to contain the pandemic, has said enforcing the lockdown “indefinitely” would be too disruptive and “overtake...

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