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Category: Coronavirus

20 May, 2021

Covid corpses on Ganga

Visuals of Buxar and Ghazipur expose bogey of a new India Covid seems to have taken us back to the…

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20 May, 2021

Education in the Post- Pandemic New Normal

In the post pandemic ‘New normal’ era, undoubtedly everything is going to change forever.  Amongst them, education is of utmost…

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20 May, 2021

My bridge over troubled waters

Bridge is the best intellectual exercise which doubles up as an engrossing game You face new situations every ten minutes,…

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26 March, 2021

Will Organize Summit of Democracies, says Biden

“We’ve got to prove democracy works,” he said.  I.S. Saluja WASHINGTON (TIP): President Joe Biden shared with media persons his…

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13 February, 2021

Pfizer vaccine can neutralize coronavirus variants first reported in UK, SA: Study

The COVID-19 vaccine co-developed by the American pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and the German biotechnology company BioNTech can neutralise variants of…

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5 February, 2021

Indian American NYC Health Commissioner tests COVID positive

NEW YORK (TIP): Dave Chokshi, the Indian American Health Commissioner of New York City, said that he has tested positive…

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31 January, 2021

Global Covid-19 cases top 102mn

The total number of global coronavirus cases has topped 102 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 2.20…

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31 January, 2021

One year into Covid-19: India at 4th spot on global toll, Mexico third

On January 30 last year, India reported its first-ever case of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) after an Indian student of…

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31 January, 2021

Germany sees positive trend in Covid-19 infections

Berlin: The number of new Covid-19 infections in Germany remained below the previous week's levels, with another 14,022 cases reported…

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31 January, 2021

India fastest in world to reach 3 million vaccinations

India took only 13 days to complete the vaccination of three million (30 lakh) people, fastest in the world, the…

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31 January, 2021

J&J puts America on cusp of vaccine number 3

New York (TIP): America is on the cusp of vaccine number three with Johnson & Johnson's long-awaited single shot vaccine…

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1 January, 2021

Global Covid-19 cases top 82.6mn: Johns Hopkins

The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 82.6 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 1.80…

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21 December, 2020

Canada continues to record soaring Covid-19 cases

Covid-19 cases continued to rise in Canada as 486, 393 new infections and 13, 865 deaths were recorded on Thursday,…

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12 December, 2020

Rich countries have bought too many COVID-19 vaccines: Amnesty

Rich countries have secured enough coronavirus vaccines to protect their populations nearly three times over by the end of 2021,…

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5 December, 2020

US pandemic death toll mounts as danger season approaches

US deaths from the coronavirus pandemic have surged past 2,000 for two days in a row as the most dangerous…

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5 December, 2020

S’pore to contribute $5mn to help other nations get Covid-19 vaccines

Singapore on Friday announced its decision to contribute $5 million to support low- and lower-middle-income countries procure Covid-19 vaccines. The…

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5 December, 2020

Moderna to make up to 125mn Covid-19 vaccine doses available globally

US-based drugmaker Moderna has said that it expects to have between 100 million and 125 million doses of its experimental…

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21 November, 2020

‘Singh Thattha’ to protect bearded doctors on COVID duty

A UK research team’s innovative beard covering technique, dubbed as the ‘Singh Thattha’, which enables bearded medics to wear a…

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21 November, 2020

Someone in Europe is dying every 17 seconds from covid-19, WHO says

Europe’s painful second coronavirus wave may be starting to ease, a top World Health Organization official said Thursday, though its…

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21 November, 2020

Global Covid-19 cases surpass 57mn mark: Johns Hopkins

The overall number of global coronavirus cases has surpassed the 57 million mark, while the deaths have surged to more…

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21 November, 2020

Pfizer asks for emergency use of its coronavirus vaccine

US drugmaker Pfizer Inc, which has developed a 95% effective vaccine against coronavirus, is now seeking the emergency use tag…

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13 November, 2020

Russia says its Sputnik V COVID vaccine is 92% effective

Russia's Sputnik V vaccine is 92% effective at protecting people from COVID-19 according to interim trial results, the country's sovereign…

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24 October, 2020

India relaxes visa norms; except for tourism, all categories of foreigners allowed to enter India

NEW DELHI / NEW YORK (TIP): India  on Thursday, October 22,  relaxed visa restrictions to allow all categories of foreign…

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17 October, 2020

Indian American co-founded company and University of Houston partner for COVID-19 vaccine

HOUSTON (TIP): The University of Houston (UH) has joined hands with an Indian American co-founded biotech company, AuraVax Therapeutics, to develop a 'differentiated-approach' vaccine…

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17 October, 2020

Trump says he supports larger coronavirus relief package

WASHINGTON (TIP): U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday, Oct 15  he was willing to support a comprehensive COVID-19 coronavirus…

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17 October, 2020

India fares poorly in hunger index

Country has the highest prevalence of ‘wasted children’; even Bangladesh and Pakistan score better NEW YORK (TIP): India has the…

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17 October, 2020

Beware of the consequences of disregarding recommendations of health experts

Politicians all over the world, by and large, are guided by similar lust for power. For them, all is fair…

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26 September, 2020

On Ravi Batra’s article ‘Can the United States Renege on the Payment Due to the WHO?’

Dear Indrajit, I found it very interesting to read Ravi Batra’s legitimate complaint against the Government of China in his…

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25 September, 2020

Indian Americans Help over 15,000 Families in US amid COVID

WASHINGTON (TIP): Amid the coronavirus pandemic, an initiative by the Indian American community in the Washington DC metro area, United States,…

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12 September, 2020

COVID-19 could fuel more conflict, poverty, starvation, says UN

26 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 and more than 860,000 deaths. Roughly a third of the cases and fatalities are…

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