-TheThirdPole.net We are all being told that the best way to keep coronavirus at bay is washing hands with soap and water several times a day; authorities need to quickly come up with solutions for the large number of Indians who do not have access to enough clean water “Bunty, tera saboon slow hai kya?” (“Bunty, is your soap slow?”), is the catch phrase of a popular TV ad. It shows a...
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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,...
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-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...
More »The perils of an all-out lockdown -Jean Drèze
-The Hindu If the poor must stay at home, they need income support and essential services As the novel coronavirus spreads, a double crisis looms over India: a health crisis and an economic crisis. In terms of casualties, the health crisis is still very confined (seven deaths in a country where eight million people die every year), but the numbers are growing fast. Meanwhile, the economic crisis is hitting with full force,...
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-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...
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