-PTI/ NDTV.com India Heat Wave: India Meteorological Department Director General Mrutyunjay Mohapatra said northwest and west central parts of the country - Gujarat, Rajasthan, Punjab and Haryana - will continue to experience above normal temperatures in May as well. New Delhi: Northwest and central India experienced their hottest April in 122 years, with average maximum temperatures reaching 35.9 and 37.78 degrees Celsius respectively, the weather office said on Saturday. Addressing a press conference,...
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Next COVID-19 wave can’t be predicted: experts -Jacob Koshy
-The Hindu There is absolutely no way to forecast the timing, says Professor behind SUTRA model Independent experts have criticised a recent modelling study from a group of researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur that predicts a fourth COVID wave in India around June. The study, uploaded on the preprint server, Medrxiv, which hosts scientific work that is yet to be published in a peer-reviewed journal forecasts the wave to begin...
More »India May See Fourth Covid Wave From June, Peak In August: Study
-PTI/ NDTV.com Officials at the World Health Organization recently warned that Omicron may not be the last Covid variant and the next strain could be more contagious. New Delhi: The Fourth Wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in India may start around June 22 and peak from mid-to-late August, a modelling study by researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur suggests. The yet-to-be peer-reviewed study, recently posted on the preprint repository MedRxiv, used a...
More »National Coalition on the Education Emergency releases Policy Trackers on State Education Finances and School Opening Status
--Press release by the National Coalition on the Education Emergency (NCEE) dated January 29, 2022 An education emergency of unprecedented proportions has severely impacted hundreds of millions of children in India. Prolonged school closures have caused learning deprivation, student dropout, increased child labour, malnutrition, and early marriages that are compromising the future of our country. It is time to open schools and massively increase funding of public education with a clear focus...
More »Nothing will 'rein in’ Covid surge now, say experts as R-value tops 2nd wave peak -Paran Balakrishnan
-The Telegraph Omicron makes up 80 per cent of cases in Delhi, Mumbai; Bengal logs highest test positivity rate India is in the middle of a Covid-19 surge that’s rising exponentially and can’t be reined in by booster shots at this stage, says a leading virologist. “For this wave, we are too late. Nothing will now rein it in,” says virologist T. Jacob John. We could see the Omicron surge play out two...
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