-NDTV.com Central Teams Rushed To 6 States Reporting Increased COVID-19 Cases New Delhi: The central government has sent six high-level multi-disciplinary public health teams to six states reporting a high number of COVID-19 cases. The teams will assist the states of Kerala, Arunachal Pradesh, Tripura, Odisha, Chhattisgarh and Manipur in COVID-19 control and containment measures, the Health Ministry said on Friday. These teams will gather a first-hand understanding of the challenges and issues...
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Maharashtra: Short-Staffed Hospitals Deprive COVID Patients of Proper Care in Beed -Parth MN/ PARI
-TheWire.in COVID-19 struck like a bolt from the blue for the residents of Beed, who were already struggling with agrarian crisis, leaving them at the mercy of crumbling public health facilities. “I don’t know what finally caused her death but I know she did not get the attention she deserved.” Subash Kabade says this, describing his sister’s death. The night before his sister, Lata Survase, died in the Civil Hospital in Maharashtra’s Beed...
More »Migrant workers bore the brunt of 2020 lockdown due their poor access to social security schemes & legal rights, depicts latest NHRC report
The rise in COVID-19 daily new cases and daily new deaths compelled many state governments to impose local level lockdowns during April-May 2021. As of 20th April, 2021, partial lockdowns were noticed in 10 states across the country and complete lockdown was imposed in Delhi. As of 8th May, 2021, nearly the entire country was under complete lockdown as a result of either partial lockdowns and night curfews or complete...
More »Countering the next wave of COVID-19 -Yamini Aiyar, Jishnu Das, Partha Mukhopadhya and Shamindra Nath Roy
-The Hindu It requires co-ordination across States and districts, based on real-time analysis of data As the focus shifts to a possible third wave, it is important for India to ask how it can marshal its resources better. Can we leverage the advantages of our size and federal character? Delhi’s experience is instructive. As the first wave abated, Hospitalisation for COVID-19 patients plummeted. By January 2021, Delhi was using less than 20% of...
More »Kanpur Industry Body Chief Dies in Traffic Held Due to President Kovind's Visit
-TheWire.in The Kanpur Nagar Police Commissionerate has tweeted on the matter, seeking "forgiveness" and noting that this will be a "big lesson" for it. New Delhi: A woman reportedly died of post-COVID-19 complications in Kanpur on her way to the Hospital while her vehicle was caught in traffic on Friday, June 25, because of diversions put up across the city for President Ram Nath Kovind’s convoy. The victim, 50-year-old Vandana Mishra, was the...
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