-The Telegraph It’s unclear whether any decision by the state government would have a bearing on central facilities like the AIIMS Health rights groups have appealed to the Delhi government not to close its hospitals to patients from outside the capital amid suggestions the administration would take a decision on the matter on Sunday. A Delhi government source said an expert committee had in a report to the state government said Delhi’s health...

-Newsclick.in The poor need food and money, not more loans. Only demand-side interventions will revive the economy. The Covid-19 pandemic is an unprecedented crisis that almost all countries are struggling to cope with. Like the rest of the world, India is fighting the spread of the disease and its adverse consequences on the health system and its finances. On the economic front, India was already facing a prolonged slowing down. Even before...

-Down to Earth India imports around 90 per cent of APIs used to make antibiotics, says an expert The novel Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has revealed India’s overdependence on China for active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) — also known as bulk drugs — defined by the World Health Organization as any substances used in finished pharmaceutical products. India’s pharmaceutical industry is the third-largest in the world in terms of volume. Two-thirds of the total imports...

-HowIndiaLives.com/ Livemint.com Indian leaders came late to the Coronavirus discussion. And when they did, they focused more on health and administration than the economy or the poor On 30 January, India reported its first Coronavirus case from Kerala. The virus was not yet a global menace, but even by that day, 20 countries already had a combined 7,823 cases. However, it would not be until over a month later that top political...

-Down to Earth National Green Tribunal’s 2019 order asking states to identify, protect and restore water bodies underlines the urgency to save them The nationwide lockdown imposed to break the spread of the novel Coronavirus disease spread in India brought into light a new, pleasant discovery — improvement in quality of several water bodies and their catchments as a host of industrial activities halted. There is a need to restore and create more...