-TheWire.in Why do some COVID apps prefer to shun location tracking altogether and some don't? The mobile phone seems to be an important weapon in the fight against COVID-19. Phone apps that track location – basically, latitude, longitude at a specific time – and send this information to Health authorities live are being deployed to ensure that phone owners remain within quarantine zones. A different use simply records the location trail over a...

-The Indian Express Medical officer Dr Mohammed Mukram drove through the forests and shifted the expectant mother to the public Healthcare centre in his car with the help of an ASHA worker and ensured a safe institutional delivery. Hyderabad: At a time the Health machinery is overburdened fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, a doctor in Telangana’s Mahabubabad district helped an expecting mother by himself driving around 70 km to make her reach the...

-IndiaSpend.com Chandigarh: With thousands of migrants who had left Uttarakhand for greener pastures returning amid the lockdown, the state government is trying to convince them to stay on and rebuild their lives there, offering interest-free loans, subsidies and free electricity to set up eco-tourism and micro-enterprises. The state government has also added an additional budget for employment-generating schemes such as the Veer Chandra Garhwali Yojana, which offers micro credit aimed to...

-The Hindu Global Nutrition Report says it has highest rates of inequalities in malnutrition. India is among 88 countries that are likely to miss global nutrition targets by 2025, according to the Global Nutrition Report 2020 released on Tuesday. It also identified the country as one with the highest rates of domestic inequalities in malnutrition. In 2012, the World Health Assembly identified six nutrition targets for maternal, infant and young child nutrition to...

-Hindustan Times Health Minister Harsh Vardhan had said on Sunday that no Covid-19 case has been reported in 10 states and union territories in the last 24 hours. The number of patients turning critical due to the coronavirus disease Covid-19 has halved, the Union Health ministry has said. According to Hindustan Times’ Hindi language publication Hindustan, which is quoting data from the Health ministry, only five per cent of Covid-19 patients turn critical. Till...