-TheWire.in Narendra Modi's track record in Gujarat sheds light on his approach to public healthcare. Data updated by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on the evening of April 7 indicated that the fatality rate due to COVID-19 in Gujarat is the highest among all states and union territories of India. The total number of infected persons reported in Gujarat was at 165, with 13 deaths. Thus the fatality rate in Gujarat...
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As Mills Delay Payments Like Every Year, Lockdown Adds to Sugarcane Farmers' Woes -Kabir Agarwal
-TheWire.in Most sugarcane farmers usually sell a part of their produce at local jaggery producing units, but these remain closed at the moment. Meerut: Ankur Kumar is a small farmer with a four-acre farm in Muzaffarnagar’s Vahelna. Like every year, he has sown sugarcane on his field and like every year, he is struggling to get his dues from the sugar mill. “I have deposited 500 quintals so far this season and have...
More »Punjab: Muslims Families Hide in Riverbed After Being Driven From Hoshiarpur Villages -Prabhjit Singh
-TheWire.in After three days, the families were brought some ration by the authorities. However, no case has Been filed against those who beat and abused them. Hoshiarpur: Several children, women and men on Wednesday continued to hide themselves in the Swan riverbed, without for the food for three days now, on the Punjab side of the state’s marshy borders with Himachal Pradesh. They were allegedly abused, beaten and chased away from their...
More »Explained: The ‘Bhilwara model’ of ‘ruthless containment’ to stop coronavirus -Deep Mukherjee
-The Indian Express Bhilwara in Rajasthan was one of the early hotspots of the COVID-19 outbreak. The government responded with extraordinarily aggressive measures — and the ‘Bilwara model’ could now be replicated elsewhere in the country. Jaipur: Almost two weeks into the nationwide lockdown, with the case count from the novel coronavirus disease climbing to 4,281 (with 111 deaths) as of Monday night, the Union Health Ministry has said that over 80%...
More »India was Never Close to a 7-Day Doubling Growth Rate of COVID-19 Cases -Aravindhan Nagarajan
-Newsclick.in “If we compare Tablighi Jamaat congregation and if that had not taken place, our doubling rate is 4.1 days and had those cases not happened the doubling rate would be 7.4 days right now,” the MoHFW had claimed. On April 5, officials of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) of the Government of India made a claim: “If we compare Tablighi Jamaat (TBJ) congregation and if that had not...
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