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Activate War Rooms, Night Curfews As Needed, Centre Tells States: 10 Points -Parimal Kumar,

-NDTV.com The thresholds, the Centre said, are test positivity of 10 per cent or more in the last one week or 40 per cent occupancy on oxygen supported or ICU beds. States must take "containment measures, curbs even before thresholds are reached". New Delhi: Omicron is three times as infectious as Delta and "war rooms" are needed to contain it, the Centre has told states. It listed a series of prevention and...

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Omicron: Why A Potential Surge Might Need Hybrid Testing -Nimmy Dominic, Pankaj Jindal, Ashish Sachdeva and Sarang Deo

-IndiaSpend.com Using a combination of RT-PCR tests with Rapid Antigen Tests (RAT) helps detect more cases faster during a surge in cases, in remote areas with little access to RT-PCRs and in Covid-19 hotspots. Hyderabad, Mumbai and Mohali: To quickly detect Covid-19 positive cases and slow the virus' spread in case of a possible surge due to the Omicron variant, India must increase its use of Rapid Antigen Tests (RAT, which take...

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'Blatant misogynist material': Sonia Gandhi seeks apology from CBSE for 'regressive' question

-IndiaToday.in Calling the controversial passage in Saturday's CBSE English question paper 'blatantly misogynist', Congress interim President Sonia Gandhi in Lok Sabha sought an apology from the Board. Congress interim President slammed the ' shockingly regressive’ passage regarding women in the CBSE's English exam question paper during the Zero Hour in Lok Sabha. She also sought an apology from CBSE. The Class 10 CBSE English question paper triggered a controversy on Saturday for allegedly...

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Centre flags rise in number of COVID-19 cases

-PTI/ The Hindu Health Ministry writes to Himachal Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir The Union Health Ministry on Wednesday asked Himachal Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir to undertake a review of the rising COVID-19 case numbers and weekly positivity rates, and enhance Testing. In letters to the Himachal Pradesh Health Secretary, Andhra Pradesh Principal Secretary of Health and the Jammu and Kashmir Additional Chief Secretary of Health, Arti Ahuja,...

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Prof. Chinmay Tumbe of IIM Ahmedabad interviewed by Civil Society News

-Civil Society News, Gurugram THROUGHOUT the first and second waves of the coronavirus pandemic, the extent of the tragedy in India was mostly unknown. How many people had really died? Were they men or women? Information was anecdotal and speculative. This April, there were queues at crematoriums and burial grounds, but even as bodies piled up there were no reliable figures to go by. We now have some figures based on data-hunting...

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