-TheNewsMinute.com The Chief Minister said that Kasaragod district which has 38 cases will be under full lockdown,. Kerala will be on lockdown, with 28 new cases of COVID-19 being reported in the state on Monday, taking the total number of confirmed cases to 95. The lockdown will continue till March 31, said Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. Of the 28 new cases, 19 are in Kasaragod district, five in Kannur, two in Ernakulam and...
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At current rate, India can see 30,000 COVID-19 deaths by May, no hospital bed by June: Data -Rukmini S
-ThePrint.in The response of various Indian states to COVID-19 will differ as the poorest states have the weakest capacity to deliver health services. After the largest single-day increase in the number of novel coronavirus cases in India, it has never been clearer that the pandemic is upon us and the next few weeks are going to throw up a scenario that many still find hard to imagine. From the data we have,...
More »No economic task force for COVID-19 yet -Priscilla Jebaraj
-The Hindu Will be set up by PMO or Cabinet Secretariat, says Finance Ministry. Four days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that a task force would be set up to deal with the economic impact of coronavirus (COVID-19), it has yet to be constituted. Although Mr. Modi said the task force was to be headed by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, the Ministry says it is not responsible for constituting the body. In...
More »How to handle a pandemic -KK Shailaja
-The Hindu The Kerala government has been successful in putting the public health sector back on the rails Every year after the Union Budget, newspapers carry articles critiquing the abysmal allocation for the health sector. As the COVID-19 threat looms, doctors, healthcare professionals and state institutions have been regularly issuing guidelines on the precautions to be taken. However, the ubiquitous fault lines of India’s public healthcare infrastructure are being laid bare as...
More »Coronavirus pandemic puts India’s informal workers in the firing line - Anuja and Utpal Bhaskar
-Livemint.com * The crisis has led to a mass exodus of migrant labour back to their villages, mainly in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh * From those working in restaurants to those making a living by ironing clothes in the neighbourhood, daily wagers are finding it difficult to make ends meet New Delhi: Ashok Kumar, a 42-year-old carpenter, lives in the Rohini area of the national capital and survives on work that he gets...
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