Rumita Patel
Tirupati: Kurnool reported its first COVID-19 case on Saturday, taking the number of positive cases in AP to 14. A 23-year-old rail gang member who was staying in the town of Nosam near the Kurnool-Kadapa border was diagnosed with COVID-19 on Saturday. According to district collector G Veerapandiyan, the patient visited his hometown in Rajasthan…
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NEW DELHI: In the first week of March, the Jamaigh Tablighi held a religious congregation at the New Delhi headquarters. More than 1,000 people participated. Some of the participants, including high-ranking preachers, had come from countries such as Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, and Indonesia, where Covid-19 had already spread. After attending the congregation, the participants went…
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NEW DELHI: Delhi police hired the cleric, who led a large religious congregation in Nizamuddin West earlier this month, on Tuesday for violating government orders not to organize public gatherings and maintaining social distance to contain the COVID outbreak. -19, said the official. The markaz (center) in the South Delhi neighborhood organized a Tabligh-e-Jamaat from…
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NEW DELHI: Up to 227 new cases of coronavirus and three deaths have been reported in the past 24 hours, the Union health ministry said Tuesday. So far, a total of 1,251 cases have been reported, including 32 deaths. The government said the three new deaths have been reported from Gujarat, West Bengal and Madhya…
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Exactly a week has passed since Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a 21-day national blockade to combat Covid-19. Given the size and complexity of India, it has been a success. Images from across the country show that essential products are available and essential services continue to be provided. Sure, there have been lapses and gaps,…
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Each crisis changes us, as individuals and as a society. The coronavirus pandemic (Covid-19) will also. It is too early to make definitive predictions, but the first days of the national closure have given us some pointers. Here are 10 thoughts on what you can potentially change. One, this experience is changing the way we…
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Coronavirus disease (Covid-19) first appeared in the Wuhan district of China’s Hubei province in early December 2019. China reported the first case on January 7, 2020, and this sparked variable interest. Worldwide, with most countries initially ignoring new infection Fortunately, Indian health authorities detected the danger, in large part because the country has always been…
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A highly qualified clinical specialist recently said that epidemiologists are busy projecting numbers because that’s what they do. This is a misleading assumption. Epidemiologists aim to prevent and control disease epidemics. Epidemiology, as defined by our doctoral mentor, Dr. Roger Detels, is the basic science of public health, because it describes the relationship of health…
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As we congratulate the government on its Herculean efforts to stop the spread of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), through the nationwide blockade and complete social estrangement, another urgent problem has emerged. While social distancing and blockage will save us time, there is the inevitable escape from the disease, which is likely to happen imminently, and…
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Nizamuddin has become the latest entry point for coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in India. A congregation at the Tablighi Jamaat headquarters saw a few thousand participants, even when it became clear that social distancing rules were essential to combat the pandemic, and the Delhi government banned meetings of more than 50. While it may A thorough…
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